McDonald's is looking to accelerate technology innovation to enhance customer experience through Delivery, Digital, and Drive Thru, and is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect/Tech Lead to analyze solution requests, formulate architectures, and lead technology-driven solutions to address complex tech challenges.
Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Leads entire team including vendor architects & engineers in all solution delivery and technology innovations throughout all stages of the Agile development life cycle.
- 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.
- Develops and contributes to the overall blueprints and detailed technical specifications for new business initiatives
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology field is required
- Excellent written, verbal, and meeting facilitation skills
- Experienced in Agile software development
- Understanding of other cloud service providers offerings including Azure & Google Cloud
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification
