Global DevSecOps Platform Director

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Chicago, IL
Hybrid
168K-219K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Food • Information Technology • Mobile • Cybersecurity • App development • Big Data Analytics
McDonald's feeds and fosters communities in more than 100 countries worldwide.
The Role
The Global DevSecOps Platform Director will lead and manage McDonald's Cloud Enterprise DevSecOps Platform teams, developing strategies and roadmaps in partnership with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include mentoring professionals, overseeing platform development, balancing budgets and quality, and promoting innovative infrastructure practices. The role requires excellent communication skills and a focus on strategic alignment and risk management.
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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.
Job Description:
This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald's works. We provide outstanding foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It's our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Cloud Infrastructure & Operations, and working closely with the entire technology leadership team, the GTIO Director, Global Cloud DevSecOps Platform, will anticipate and manage the strategic and tactical needs for McDonald's Global Enterprise DevSecOps Platform initiative while overseeing the development and deployment of the platform. You will work closely with various partners and stakeholders across the globe.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft and champion the transformation of infrastructure and DevSecOps practices and standards for the entire McDonald's environment.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Cloud Enterprise DevSecOps Platform teams, provide strategic vision while balancing near-term output.
  • Mentor, manage, and hire a successful team of managers, architects, and engineering professionals. Set clear priorities to achieve enterprise goals and critical metrics.
  • Develop and deliver a cohesive vision, strategy, and roadmaps for DevSecOps Platform in partnership with multi-functional teams, including Cloud Security, Global Technology Risk Management, Consumer Products and Platforms, Restaurant Technology, Markets, and other external team members.
  • Understand McDonald's current landscape of tools, processes, standards, automation, monitoring, etc. as input to the vision for evolution of the DevSecOps platform.
  • Understand global and regional infrastructure, CI/CD platform requirements and lead the transformation, convergence, standardization, and innovation efforts for the Platform.
  • Lead assessments and vendor selections to develop and deploy groundbreaking platform tools and services, spanning beyond traditional technology to deliver value.
  • Balance program schedule, budget, quality, and risks.
  • Supervise and ensure the accuracy, quality, security, and usability of all infrastructure platforms.
  • Maintain a strategic focus while retaining an appropriate level of hands-on management.
  • Partner with business leaders, technical product managers, and architects to determine the long-term viability of systems/products, from business and technology standpoints.
  • Communicate ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide variety of audiences, including Directors, Senior Directors, and VPs. Fosters a constructive dialogue, harmonizes discordant views, and leads the resolution of issues.
  • Decompose significantly sophisticated problems into straightforward solutions. Consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions.
  • Identify core problems or opportunities within business processes. Understand the root cause and impacts for the project and other teams.
  • Remove bottlenecks to enable teams to work independently. Drive team members to proactively identify gaps and opportunities (e.g., services, workflows, tooling) within or between markets and other parts of the organization.


Benefits eligible : Yes
Bonus eligible : Yes
Long term incentive eligible: Yes
The expected salary range for this role is $168,350- $218,860 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.
Qualifications:

  • Willingness and ability to live the McDonald's values every day: Serve, Inclusion, Integrity, Community, and Family.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage technical products from an unclear problem statement, driving clarity, understanding, and opportunity assessment, managing tradeoffs and evaluating potential concepts with internal and external partners using design thinking and agile principles.
  • Experience managing technical priorities relevant to DevOps practices and driving strategic architectural initiatives.
  • Proven track record of delivering successful DevOps Platform technology and infrastructure projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and grow high performing technical teams, including technical product managers, architects, and engineers.
  • Ability to manage collaborator expectations and resolve conflict.
  • Ability to proactively identify and solve sophisticated problems potentially impacting the DevSecOps platform function.
  • Proven analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop product strategy and cases, and measure success / value realization.
  • Superb written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas in easy-to-understand business friendly language.
  • Experience negotiating contracts and managing suppliers to deliver high quality products or services, on time and on budget.
  • Strong analytical skills to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.
  • Ability to manage team member expectations and resolve conflict.
  • Excellent relationship leadership skills and the ability to build and grow connections with vendors and people of all types and backgrounds from all over the world.
  • Naturally elevates others and crafts a culture of belonging through engaging hard-working teams.


Preferred Qualifications & Experience

  • Experience with infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
  • Experience with Edge and Cloud platform design patterns and vendor platform capabilities; experience deploying Edge or Cloud tools and technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively influence and partner across product and platform teams within a global engineering organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and navigate to get results within a globally distributed organization.
  • Strong experience owning and delivering high load digital platforms / infrastructure with measurable results.
  • Deep understanding of global complexities and differences between markets / regions
  • Experience managing chargebacks, P&L of a program and developing/managing financial forecasts to communicate ROI and spend rate.
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering/technology, or 3+ years of relevant work experience and a master's degree.
  • 8+ years of technology capability implementation and deployment experience across multiple IT practices that may include infrastructure leadership, service management leadership, technology operations, engineering, security, and business relationship management.
  • 5+ years of experience in leadership roles, including leading teams of employees.
  • Experience leading technical teams that manage a strategically important product and/or a suite of products.
  • Experience influencing senior executives (VPs, SVP), and setting expectations for major cross-functional initiatives.

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 [email protected] . 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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HQ: Chicago, IL
1,400 Employees
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Year Founded: 1955

What We Do

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 38,000 locations in over 100 countries. We feed 68 million people every day and, along with our franchisees, employ 1.9 million people worldwide.

We're a household name across the globe, and we’re in the midst of a tech revolution in our business, doubling down on tech and creating a tech ‘recipe’ that is almost as proprietary as our Big Mac sauce®. Our tech organization is made up of intrapreneurs who get to build really cool tech with scary smart people using the latest innovations like AI, IOT, edge computing.

Why Work With Us

You'll work on industrial-scale products and platforms, alongside diverse, global teams who are always hungry for a challenge. We invest more than $1 billion in tech every year and have countless projects in AI, ML Image/Voice Recognition, IoT, robotics, edge computing and more. Bonus: see your family and friends use your work across the world.

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