Senior Manager, Solution Architecture

McDonald's • Chicago, IL

296d • $149,260 - $190,310

About The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect/Tech Lead plays a crucial role in analyzing solution requests, formulating architectures, and leading technology-driven solutions. This role involves collaborating with teams for CI/CD of AWS resources, improving products, and guiding system development. The architect leads solution delivery, ensures timely execution, manages vendor teams, addresses technical challenges, adheres to standards, and mentors others. The position also contributes to enterprise blueprints, technical specifications, and strategic planning. Analyzes new solution requests, solicits and clarifies requirements, and formulates conceptual and physical architectures to rapidly deliver solutions. Provides direction for and leads technology-driven solutions and capabilities. Collaborates with multi-functional teams to research, architect, and automate the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of a wide variety of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources hosting data platform components. Determines, designs, and drives product improvements. Creatively initiates new ideas for system improvement, develops solution, and guides team in delivering. Provides input to McDonald's Enterprise Architects on enterprise solution blueprints. Leads entire team including vendor architects & engineers in all solution delivery and technology innovations throughout all stages of the Agile development life cycle. Leads the vendor architects in developing detailed solutions. Leads the developers on execution of the solution. Partners with the project owner, project managers and PMO on delivering the solutions on time. Partners with the data quality validation team. Develops solutions for more significant bugs found during end-to-end testing. Provides thought leadership in post-production troubleshooting including bugs causing high traffic issues. Helps teams to deliver the product on time, on budget and ensuring that is solves the objectives it was designed to solve. Deep technical thinker and complex problem solver for complex technical challenges. Sets and/or enforces McDonald's architecture/engineering standards for solution implementations. Determines the direction for standards for new development which the team adheres to. Determines projections for product growth for budgeting and planning purposes. Actively participates in and mentors the McDonald's architecture and engineering communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology field is required.
• 5+ years of professional experience architecting solutions in AWS with the following suites: AWS, Atlassian Suite products including Jira/Confluence.
• Proficiency with AWS products including: Amazon Redshift, EC2, SQS, S3, Cloudwatch, SecretsManager, Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, Step Functions, CodeCommit, Glue and RDS Databases.
• Proficiency with Apache products including: Kafka, HBase, Spark.
• Proficiency with NewRelic.
• Proficiency in no code/low code/nosql software solutions.
• Familiarity with encryption mechanisms and protocols such as PGP, AES-256.
• Familiar with CI/CD enablers such as Jenkins, GitHub, and jFrog.
• Ability to make the appropriate recommendations based on the AWS Well-Architected framework and best practices for multiple AWS service categories including Compute, Storage, Database, Network & Content Delivery, Security, Identity, and Compliance, Management & Governance, Machine Learning, and Development Tools.
• Proficient in SQL.
• Excellent written, verbal, and meeting facilitation skills.
• Experienced in Agile software development.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of other cloud service provider offerings including Azure & Google Cloud.
• Experienced with Reltio.
• Experienced with ErWin and Model Manager.
• AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification.

Responsibilities

• Develops and contributes to the overall blueprints and detailed technical specifications for new business initiatives.
• Continual creation of ideas and design of solutions for improving the product.
• Determines which technology to use where and for what in solutions.
• Communicates solutions to project team.
• Reviews project team's detailed specifications to ensure accurate interpretation of the requirements and solution.
• Reviews development team SQL and provides guidance, input and approvals.
• Leads problem solving of issues, partnering with the development team.
• Provides technical input and direction on new software packages and technology tools.
• Defines applicable security requirements and solutions.
• Advises on contractual technical SLAs.
• Maintains overall integration system flow diagrams to allow for quick understanding of change impacts.
• Communicates monthly to team of upcoming designs and solicits input and feedback.
• Shares expertise with new hires in the form of the 'CCP Class'.
• Coaches the data architect on how to maintain the data model and metadata.
• Continues to increase personal knowledge of the AWS, Apache GCP and other relevant technology stacks.
• Participates in wider team architectural reviews such as D&AI Solutioning meetings.
• Participates in external peer communities.
• Participates in Product Backlog Refinement.
• Participates in Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Provides product expertise to the business, product team and other department teams.
• Supports the Legal Department in customer queries and data retrievals.
• Provides projections of data growth expected.

Benefits

• Health and welfare benefits.
• 401(k) plan.
• Adoption assistance program.
• Educational assistance program.
• Flexible ways of working.
• Time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO).
• Bonus eligibility based on individual and company performance.
• Long term incentive eligibility for stock or other equity grants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Food Services and Drinking Places
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree