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About Us:
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 Charities 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.
Work location:
Hyderabad, India
Work hours:
Regular
Work pattern: Full time role.
Work mode: Hybrid.
Position Summary:
DBA Platform Lead:
As a key member of the McDonald’s Global Data Platform & Operations team, this role focuses on the physical design, management, and optimization of cloud database platforms, with a strong emphasis on GCP Big Query. The role supports the implementation and maintenance of database structures, metadata definitions, and source-to-target mappings, while ensuring database platforms are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient in support of advanced analytics and AI use cases.
The ideal candidate should be passionate about databases and brings hands-on experience with cloud databases, strong SQL skills, and a practical understanding of batch, event-based, and streaming data ingestion into database layers, and partners closely with data engineers, analysts, and platform stakeholders to ensure physical data designs and platform operations meet performance, governance, and business needs.
Who we’re looking for:
Primary Responsibilities:
Meet with data analysts, business intelligence teams, and other key stakeholders to gather, understand, and address complex data requirements. Ensure that the data solutions designed are both technically sound and aligned with business needs.
Hands-on design, development, deployment, and management of database architecture solutions. Ensure that the solutions are scalable, flexible, and tailored for advanced analytics and AI scenarios utilizing GCP Big Query.
Execute ongoing GCP Big Query platform administration and health checks, including configuration management, slot and reservation allocation, capacity monitoring, and remediation of platform-level issues to ensure stable, scalable, and cost-efficient Big Query services.
Implement database operations best practices, including:
Alerts & Monitoring:
Configure proactive alerts for query performance, slot utilization, storage consumption, and failed jobs; monitor cost and usage trends; automate health checks for schema integrity.
SQL Tuning:
Review execution plans, optimize joins and aggregations, leverage partitioning and clustering, avoid SELECT *, and recommend materialized views for frequent queries.
User Recommendations:
Provide query optimization guidelines, educate analysts on efficient SQL practices, encourage parameterized queries, and share dashboards for performance and cost transparency.
Planning and coordinating database downtime for maintenance or any other activities
* Work closely with the IT security team to ensure that all database platforms adhere to strict security protocols, ensuring data privacy and protection.
Participate in data governance initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help drive best practices, emphasizing data accuracy, security, and ensuring that all architectures are in line with regulatory compliance standards.
Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices for database platform architecture. Continuously evaluate the existing design and processes, recommending and implementing improvements as necessary.
Be skilled at conveying complex ideas in a clear and understandable manner, tailoring communication strategies…
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