Sr Director, Engineering Execution

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Date: Jun 12, 2025

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. 

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements. 

Department Overview

The Senior Director of Engineering Execution will be a key leader of McDonald’s Technology team. In this critical role, you will lead a centralized and matrixed organization of engineers in the US, Mexico City and Hyderabad (future) who develop custom solutions for McDonald’s Consumer and Restaurant platforms.  You will allocate and direct engineers to deliver on our biggest and most important technology initiatives. Additionally, this role will define and drive adoption of engineering processes and standards that will drive quality, efficiency, and speed to market for our    for products at the scale and pace of McDonald’s.  

Duties

  • Continue to grow our internal engineering capability for the Consumer and Restaurant platforms, executing on our insourcing strategy which is growing our resources in US, Mexico City (and Hyderabad in the future). 
  • Help identify and support the development of the next generation of technology leaders for the organization.
  • Support the establishment of technical career paths within the organization that enable engineers to develop and grow in their discipline.
  • Provide strong engineering leadership to solve problems and remove barriers for our teams
  • Lead and direct the work for our engineering function which allocates shared engineering talent to progress our goals on our Consumer and Restaurant product.
  • Lead all aspects of the levers that govern quality, efficiency and velocity around our engineering initiatives from a process, performance, and execution standpoint.
  • Adopt and move the organization (technical, non-technical, and vendor teams) to an agile methodology
  • Drive the assessment and adoption of AI, Gen AI and Agentic AI tools and SDLC processes to improve the quality and efficiency of engineering teams.
  • Establish the right metrics to measure and drive improvements in the efficiency and quality of our engineering function.
  • Build a culture of data driven and customer-first decision making, providing the organization with visual quality metrics that pinpoint the health of execution levers and processes including the delivery of projects.
  • Be the spokesperson and present on execution and delivery initiative updates, as well as engineering execution achievements; handling all of communication of the strategic plan to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Drive the establishment and adoption of a robust SDLC process that ensures the development of high-quality software products that meet the needs of our global customers in a timely manner.
  • Champion engineering excellence by establishing and promoting of processes  in software development and code quality across all teams.
  • Drive a robust testing strategy that ensures high reliability, scalability, and performance of our platforms and applications through automated testing, continuous integration, and quality assurance processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science or related major.
  • Experience leading a technology transformation in a large, corporate, and matrixed environment.
  • Experience building and scaling an engineering organization
  • 5+ years of experience managing large (50+) engineering teams
  • 10+ years of experience working with digital customer-facing products working and agile development teams.
  • You will have a project management mentality along with a strong strategic and analytics approach.
  • Led teams in the scope of software development process, technology architecture, back end monitoring tools like New Relic and Kibana, A/B testing tools, Tableau and other data reporting clients.
  • Tactical experience as a developer working across multiple languages and products.

    Nice to haves:

  • Master’s Degree.
  • Retail or QSR industry experience.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Competencies

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance. 

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan. 

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis. 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 


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