Principal Data Engineer

McDonald’s Corporation

Actively hiring Posted this week
Chicago, Illinois Posted 6 days ago $195,371–$244,214 / year
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TL;DR

As a Principal Data Engineer in McDonald’s Audience Network team, you will lead the technical direction and architecture of a new platform designed to create, activate, and measure customer audiences across various ecosystems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining the end-to-end architecture, establishing engineering standards, and designing privacy-safe systems that produce trusted audience data for downstream use by Data Science, Analytics, AdTech teams, and external partners. You will leverage cloud-native platforms like GCP, work with batch and event-driven data systems, and utilize tools such as Airflow for workflow orchestration. Essential skills include expertise in large-scale data system development, data governance, and privacy-by-design principles to ensure the platform’s scalability and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

GCP Airflow Python Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Apache Kafka Spark Snowflake Git Jenkins GraphQL REST Swagger OAuth JSON SQL

What you'll do

  • Define and own the end-to-end architecture for the Audience Network platform.
  • Establish privacy-by-design principles and data governance standards.
  • Architect scalable workflows for audience segmentation and feature engineering.
  • Enable near real-time and batch processing for activation service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience building large-scale data systems
  • Expertise in cloud-native platforms (preferably GCP)
  • Experience with batch and event-driven data systems
  • Workflow orchestration skills using tools like Airflow
  • Strong understanding of data governance and privacy principles
  • Experience supporting machine learning workflows

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About McDonald’s Corporation

McDonald’s Corporation is the world's largest fast-food chain by revenue, operating over 40,000 locations in more than 100 countries.

McDonald’s Corporation currently has 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $138,207–$172,758 across 62 roles with salary data.

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