Sr Manager, Software Engineering
$167,366–$209,207 year
On-site · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manager, Software Engineering role based at McDonald’s Global Headquarters in Chicago, IL. Drives orchestration and delivery flow across frontend and backend squads, translating initiative scope into integrated sequencing across teams, environments, and dependencies. Ensures cohesive, deployable outcomes, surfaces risks early, and governs rollout conditions and environment promotion criteria. Partners with Deployment and Quality teams to ensure orchestrations are executable and grounded in real signals, maintaining visibility into delivery flow and systemic bottlenecks. Focuses on reducing fragmentation, enabling teams to become more predictable and self-sufficient by improving how work moves. Requires 8+ years in engineering delivery or related fields, strong CI/CD and cross-functional collaboration skills, and experience with mobile apps or customer-facing products.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in engineering delivery, release management, platform operations, or large-scale program coordination
- Proven experience coordinating delivery across multiple teams and systems
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion, and progressive delivery concepts
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies and ambiguity in fast-moving environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, and operations
- Proven ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Superior interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects
- Curious and a self-starter with a strong bias for action; consistent track record of getting things done
- Experience working on mobile apps and customer-facing products
- Detail-obsessed and able to meet deadlines
- Expertise in digital project and product planning, including feature and defect prioritization, trade-off processes, roadmap creation, and timeline planning
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