Solutions Architect Mcdonald's
Chicago, IL

Job Description

We are currently looking to add a Solutions Architect.

As digital consumer engagement models and retail business opportunities evolve, McDonald's is creating a digital Commerce platform and a related architecture foundation that will enable us to reach even more customers and support the McDonald's global digital business and technology growth. Our Digital Commerce Platform will revolutionize how McDonald's interfaces with our customers and remove physical boundaries to allow our customers to connect and order at any time or place, globally. Given McDonald's scale, this platform will compete in transaction volumes, performance, and reliability needs with industry leading Digital Commerce retailers such as Amazon and eBay. This platform will power a broader set of applications that will significantly modernize McDonald's, and it is the foundational core responsible for ensuring a customer's order reaches the restaurant.

We are looking for a technical architect to guide the integration of our digital channels, middleware platform and the backend eCommerce solution. As a core part of the responsibilities, this role will various product development teams to ensure that software is developed as a cohesive solution that allows easy integration. The role will have influence and oversight over the front-end channel and backend systems to ensure consistency of product and integration best practices. Furthermore, the role will have responsibilities to foster innovation and fast fail digital commerce research and concepts.

Responsibilities

* Partner with our front-end digital channel development teams (mobile, web, etc.) and back-end platform development teams (POS, eCommerce Platform, etc.) to review code, drive alignment on software development, patterns, code compliance, etc. with a focus on POS and Restaurant Technologies.
* Be a part of the software development lifecycle to ensure that code deliverables from the different teams work together successfully upon delivery
* Perform technical testing and ensure that the front-end mobile/web apps are consuming APIs appropriately
* Drive best practices in software development and virtual team collaboration
* Improve documentation practices and partner with the Business Technical Analysts on the team to summarize detailed technical information into more contextual formats
* Create and maintain documentation pertaining to product features, activity flows, integration flows, data contracts, etc.