Sr Director, Data Engineering - Restaurant Data & Analytics
McDonald's Corporation · Posted Nov 11, 2026
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Director
- $243K–$303K per year
- 15+ years
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of data engineering capabilities across the Restaurant domain, building and scaling a high-performing engineering organization to develop reliable, secure, and scalable data platforms and products powering restaurant operations analytics, artificial intelligence, operational reporting, and data-driven decision-making across global restaurants and markets.
Compensation
The expected salary range for this role is $243,000 - $303,000 per year
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the data engineering strategy, roadmap, standards, and operating model for the Restaurant data domain in alignment with enterprise objectives.
- Establish long-term vision for restaurant data platforms, operational data products (e.g., Restaurant Master Data, sales data pipelines, restaurant operations & IoT telemetry), data architecture, and engineering capabilities to support evolving global operations, digital restaurant, and operational excellence needs.
- Lead and develop a large, geographically distributed team of data engineering leaders, managers, architects, and engineers while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Drive strategic talent and insourcing initiatives, building sustainable internal engineering capability and transitioning vendor/contractor capacity into high-performing internal engineering squads.
- Drive the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable data ecosystems that support restaurant operations analytics, machine learning, sales reporting, IoT telemetry processing, and self-service business intelligence.