Sr Enterprise Architect

Job Description:

Company Description:

McDonald's growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald's will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.?

McDonald's Global Technology is here to power tomorrow's feel-good moments.??

That's why you'll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time.?Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we're digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we're reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald's restaurant.?We face complex tech challenges every day. But that's where our diverse and talented teams come in. They're made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.??

Check out the McDonald's ?Global Technology Technical Blog ( ?to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.?

Department Overview

McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and brings to bear our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand! We are recognized on lists like Fortune's Most Admired Companies and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies.

Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development). Our growth pillars emphasize the meaningful role technology plays as the top tier, global omni-channel restaurant brand! Technology enables the organization through digital technology, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day.

The Enterprise Architecture Department leads the digitization, transformation, and modernization of the business by providing clear, scalable architecture principles and standards. We guide McDonald's global technology landscape from strategy through execution, ensuring consistent, high-value outcomes. Our focus includes modern enterprise architecture practices that drive:

• Business alignment and long-term vision

• Application and data architecture

• Technology standards and architectural governance

At McDonald's you get to solve technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge. This provides access to exciting career paths for technologists. It's bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McDonald's restaurant.

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.

Additional Information:

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance; 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). 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 View email address on click.appcast.io. 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.

Requsition ID: 3247