Sr Enterprise Architect

Department Overview

McDonald’s is in search of an experienced Data Architect with proficiency in data architecture design for advanced analytical solutions, an active participation in data governance initiatives, and ensuring that solutions include security and regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate will possess a track record of designing architectures specifically tailored for advanced data analytics and data warehousing scenarios. This includes understanding the nuances of various data models, ensuring optimal performance, and aligning designs with business needs for analytics or warehousing purposes. A history of successful collaboration with data strategy teams, data analysts, and other stakeholders to understand and address complex data requirements is crucial.  Your dedication to continuous data architect design and management improvements will contribute significantly to the effectiveness of our data-driven initiatives.

Duties

• Translate strategic business goals into cohesive enterprise-level architectural roadmaps, lead the creation and evolution of architectural artifacts, including principles, standards, and patterns, to govern the implementation of new solutions and ensure they align with the enterprise's target state.
• Leverage deep domain knowledge in QSR domains (eg: Menu, Ordering, Supply chain, Kitchen operations, Franchise Management, Restaurant Technology, Marketing and Loyalty) and Architecture Framework methodologies (eg: TOGAF) to develop and maintain the enterprise capability map, ensuring that strategic business objectives are directly supported by a clearly defined and rationalized architectural landscape.
• Leverage the enterprise Capability Map to perform current-to-target state gap analysis, ensuring digital investments across domains directly enable scalability, faster time‑to‑market, and alignment with business strategy.
• Define and analyze end-to-end enterprise Valuestreams by applying TOGAF principles, identifying opportunities for process optimization and architectural improvements that deliver measurable business outcomes and enhance stakeholder value.
• Facilitate and lead architectural review board (ARB) sessions, effectively communicating how proposed solutions impact the enterprise capability map and Valuestreams to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Conduct in-depth analyses of business challenges and IT capabilities to drive business and IT alignment. Identify critical gaps and opportunities to recommend architectural solutions that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to drive trade-off discussions, facilitate informed decision making and risk mitigation via well-researched and robust IT solutions.
• Maintain alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products.
• Evaluate COTS software and lead PoC (Proof of Concept)/PoT (Proof of Technology) to select fit-for-purpose solutions aligned to Global Technology strategy

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of system engineering concepts and data integration patterns like APIs, event-driven architecture, ETL etc., across diverse cloud platforms like AWS/GCP PaaS, SaaS and Vendor solutions.
• Drive business and IT adoption of technology solutions, including AI/ML, IoT, Agentic AI, multi-Cloud, Automations, etc.
• Creation and providing adoption path to a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams, Solution Architecture teams and Cybersecurity teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is vital to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Rationalize technology landscape by leveraging capability mapping, evaluating technical debt, and recommending solutions towards cost optimization, improved operations, and solution sustainability.
• Effectively manage stakeholder expectations and achieve buy-in of complex concepts through timely and high-quality verbal/written communication.
• Manage, mentor, and provide architectural guidance across the organization by communicating the value of Enterprise Architecture, service offering, and instilling architectural and design thinking approaches.
• Manage the delivery by successfully planning, running and completing projects. Will collaborate with all the teams involved in a project to ensure the project produces the necessary outputs while meeting deadlines and staying within budget.
• Will interact with stakeholders to make sure the project meets their requirements and that they agree with the project's current direction.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long - Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $152,678.00 - $190,847.00 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.