McDonald's - Chicago, IL
posted 2 months ago
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to be a Sr Product Technical Manager within the Global Data & Analytics team at McDonald's. This role is pivotal as it involves leading and owning multiple products from an engineering standpoint. The Product Technical Manager will be responsible for prioritizing multiple technical product backlogs, balancing new features, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, and requests across teams. This includes coordinating deployments with other Product Owners in the Data & Analytics team. The ideal candidate will have a proven aptitude to develop detailed domain knowledge of multiple products and oversee what work goes to development squads as the lead technology business representative and decision-maker, working closely with the product team. In this role, you will own the responsibility for delivering data initiatives across our data product landscape, aiming to globally improve and progress McDonald's to a world-class data product organization. You will partner with business customers and stakeholders to define and deliver the associated technical data product solutions using a mix of internal and external resources, ensuring successful integration with existing McDonald's systems. The position requires mastery of your product, including understanding data ingestion, transformation, loading, and table structures, as well as the technical components of your products. You will also need to recognize product performance from an end-user standpoint, including data quality, responsiveness, and reliability. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing the data product's target technical roadmap and making key technology decisions to deliver on that roadmap. You will engage in discussions regarding the appropriateness of solutions used in your product and continuously look for ways to evolve and improve. Collaborating with Data & Solution Architects, you will launch scalable and reliable data solutions, support system integration efforts, and create operational efficiencies through automation and process improvements. You will also manage technical interdependencies and interfaces of your product with other systems and products, establish best practices for identifying and managing technical risks, and provide leadership for data engineers and other resources allocated to the product.