Company Description :

- Job Description:

- About McDonald’s : One of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our recent office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.

Department Overview : We are seeking an experienced Engineer to lead the design, development, and support of Marketer Customer Data Platform (mCDP), a large-scale, customer data processing platform. This role focuses on building backend systems that ingest, process, and distribute high volumes of customer data in both real-time and batch environments and that power critical customer engagement initiatives and key revenue drivers. As an experienced member of the team, you will guide technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate closely with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to deliver capabilities that are reliable, scalable and high performing.

Primary Responsibilities :

- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable, secure, and resilient backend architectures supporting McDonalds’ Marketer Customer Data Platform
- Build and support high-volume, low-latency transactional and data processing systems.
- Implement and maintain event-driven solutions (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) and streaming data pipelines.
- Drive technical best practices, code quality, and adherence to security and compliance standards.




- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in architecture discussions and provide guidance on system design, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate across product, architecture, security, DevOps, and operations teams in a distributed, global environment.
- Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD practices, including automated deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and observability solutions.
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting to ensure production-readiness and operational excellence.
- Assist with investigations into complex incidents, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications :

- Hands-on experience with Git for source control, collaboration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency with build and dependency management tools such as Maven and/or Gradle.
- Deep experience with cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including identity and access management.
- Proven experience designing and supporting high-volume, distributed, and low-latency systems.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum SDLC environments and collaborating with distributed, global teams.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience in large-scale, multi-national,



or enterprise organizations.
- Experience integrating backend services with marketing technology tools (e.g., mParticle, Segment, Adobe Campaign, Braze).
- Familiarity with API gateways, microservices architectures, and cloud-native data pipelines.
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and lead technical initiatives in a distributed workplace.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms & frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Kibana, OpenTelemetry)

Key Competencies :

- Strong ownership mindset with focus on quality, performance, and security.
- Ability to mentor, guide, and inspire team members.
- Strategic thinking with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and system design.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Continuous learner with a passion for modern engineering and cloud practices.

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 40,000 locations in over 100 countries. Approximately 95% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business owners. At McDonald’s, we lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community, and family. Here is your chance to get in on something special as we grow our corporate team in India and allow you to grow your career.

Qualifications : Additional Information : Job Details :

- Categories
- Data Engineering
- Corporate
- Categories ID
- Categories URL
- Job title
- Manager, Data Engineering
- Position Type
- Date Posted
- 05/06/2026
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- Job Classification
- Location(s)
- Hyderabad, 500081, IN
- Job ID
- 3706

📌 Manager, Data Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 McDonalds
📍 Hyderabad