Manager, Data Product (Dallas/open to Relo)

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Strategic Data Project Delivery: Strategic 20%

• Monitor industry trends and directions to discover and leverage best practices
• Collaborate with global application teams and senior technical management to establish, maintain and enforce Yum data architecture standards

Technical Project Delivery: Engineering oversight 60 %

• Work closely with Data Lead and Business Stakeholders to establish project requirements and priorities
• Work hand-in-hand with Project Manager to lead delivery of Data Engineering projects
• Participates in Solution Design Data Engineering hand-over sessions and provides continuous guidance and clarification to the engineering teams as necessary
• Work closely with Product Owner and Project Manager to establish and continually evolve project delivery processes

Daily Support Operations: Support 20%

• Work with India based offshore team to support ongoing pipelines and data integrations.
• Monitor/Measure pipeline completion times against established SLAs
• Work with India based offshore team to support End User

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems
• 8-10 years of experience in the Data or Software Engineering space
• 5 years of experience as Engineering Lead with proven track record of successful outcomes
• Work onsite in the Dallas office during assigned weekly collab week each month.
• Experience supporting live products with stringent SLA expectations
• Ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues into terms understandable to technical and non-technical management and resources staff
• Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner, lead working groups, negotiate and create consensus across a global IT community
• Great knowledge of Agile software delivery methodology
• Experience producing material for and running executive level project updates
• Experience setting up and running a product support organization, preferably in a follow-the-sun model.
• Experience in supporting products within a cloud or virtualized environment - AWS Preferred
• Advanced level knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python, Java or Scala
• Advanced knowledge of Informatica or equivalent Data Integration platform
• Advanced knowledge of SQL

About Us

Who is KFC?

KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things "the hard way," because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.

While we're grounded in our heritage, we're always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we're growinga new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.

As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people's potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.

Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company.