Job Description

As McDonald’s continues to innovate and disrupt the restaurant industry, we are looking to add a  highly skilled, hands-on AI Technical Architect to join our growing Global Technology Development team.   As the AI Technical Architect, you will be responsible for advising on the applicability of AI to specific business and technology opportunities fostering AI innovations, research and development, creating business cases and proof of concepts. You will oversee and partner with outsourced development teams to ensure that software is developed in a manner that leverages the best technologies, meets McDonald’s defined best practices and will be successful in a McDonald’s ecosystem.  





 This position will be based out of our growing Innovation Center in Romeoville, IL.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing:

·Serve as a technical subject-matter-expert for the application of AI / ML / voice capabilities within McDonald’s.

·Help to ensure partners understand how to successfully implement technologies in McDonald’s complex eco-system. 

·Leading, planning, and managing at both strategic and operational programs while balancing near-term and long-term needs of the business and enterprise IT.

·Enabling programs to deliver and develop solutions (idea generation, solution development, business case analysis) where appropriate.

·Developing and evaluating business cases and the ability to effectively advocate for necessary investments.

·Perform technical testing and ensure that software is built to meet McDonald’s standards.

·Design and develop innovation POCs and fast fail ideas.

·Implement 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

Minimum Requirements

What you’ll need: 

·Minimum of 7+ years of enterprise IT application experience, including at least 5 years of hands on experience in Big Data Solution Architecture, Hortonworks Hadoop, Azure Infrastructure and medium to large scale Data / Analytical solutions

·You have strong technical program and project management experience, preferably in application and systems integration, implementation, and deployment

·You have 5+  years of relevant industry experience - restaurant operations roles, restaurant strategy, restaurant technology, retail technology with increasing scale of responsibilities

·Technical expertise in 1-2 technical areas (e.g.,  software, robotics, natural language processing, cognitive applications, machine vision, data science, machine learning, hardware) in combination with practical understanding of all other areas

·Hands-on experience in or familiarity with the following or similar libraries: TensorFlow, Theano, Torch/PyTorch, Caffe, CNTK, or Chainer

·You have strong mobile application development experience

·Leadership or participation in prior artificial intelligence transformations strongly preferred

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year.  As the global leader in the food service industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing our experiences, not to make a different McDonald’s but to build a better McDonald’s. 

 

We are a people business just as much as we are a restaurant business.  We strive to be the most inclusive brand on the planet by building diverse teams who create delicious, feel good moments that are easy for everyone to enjoy. Joining McDonald's means thinking big on a daily basis and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world.

We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet.  From bold recycling initiatives and sustainable sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we see every day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.

Who we are: 

We are the Global Technology Development team.  We are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team of technologists that puts McDonald's solutions in the hands of customers and crew.  Our technology powers 71 million orders in 120 countries across the globe every single day – serving 1% of the total global population.  We are passionate leaders, who leverage technology to create a better and more innovative McDonald’s.