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Company Description:
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.
At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.
Department Overview
We are building a new Audience Network platform to power McDonald’s emerging Commerce Media strategy, enabling the creation, activation, and measurement of customer audiences across internal and external ecosystems. The Principal Data Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for this platform, defining the architecture, standards, and long-term evolution of systems that support audience cohort creation, feature engineering, and activation. This is a platform-first role focused on building scalable, privacy-safe systems that produce trusted audience data and activation signals for downstream use by Data Science, Analytics, AdTech, and external partners.
What You’ll Deliver (First 6–12 Months):
Define and align on the target-state architecture for the Audience Network platform
Establish core pipelines for audience computation, enrichment, and activation
Enable integration with key activation platforms
Implement foundational privacy, consent, and data governance controls
Drive adoption of engineering standards across teams
Duties
Technical Strategy & Architecture
Define and own the end-to-end architecture for the Audience Network platform
Establish architecture standards, reference designs, and guardrails
Design for identity resolution and interoperability across platforms
Serve as the technical authority for complex design decisions
Audience, Data & ML Platform Enablement
Architect scalable workflows for audience segmentation and feature engineering
Define reusable patterns for cohort creation and activation
Enable near real-time and batch processing for activation SLAs
Establish standards for data contracts, lineage, and observability
Privacy, Security & Governance
Embed privacy-by-design principles across platform components
Enable consent-aware audience modeling and activation
Define data traceability and auditability standards
Support privacy-safe data collaboration
Cross-Functional Influence & Technical Leadership
Translate business goals into platform capabilities
Influence technical decisions and investments
Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards
Qualifications
Required:
10+ years of experience building large-scale data systems
Expertise in cloud-native platforms (GCP preferred)
Experience with batch and event-driven data systems
Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow)
Experience supporting ML workflows
Strong understanding of data governance and privacy
Preferred:
Experience with audience or marketing platforms
Familiarity with identity resolution and activation systems
Experience with DSPs or CDPs
Experience with data clean rooms
Compensation
Bonus Eligible: Yes
Long - Term Incentive: Yes
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $195,371 - $244,214 per year
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.
Additional Information:
Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.
Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.
Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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Requsition ID: 4048
Languages
- English
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