Sr Cybersecurity Architect

McDonald's Corporation • Chicago, IL

64d • $167,366 - $209,207

About The Position

The Global Cybersecurity Senior Cybersecurity Solution Architect shapes, communicates, and advances cybersecurity requirements and security architecture across the full lifecycle of commercial products and restaurant platforms. The role applies technical judgment and relationship-building, negotiation, and influencing skills to support informed, risk-based decisions that protect confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, and compliance. It contributes to enterprise security standards and reusable design patterns, and documents security requirements, design decisions, risks, exceptions, and mitigations for systems and applications.

The architect partners with product management, engineering, privacy, risk, and business teams across the Commercial Products and Platforms organization. Success requires technical credibility, organizational awareness, and the ability to build trust, facilitate dialogue, negotiate practical security outcomes, resolve competing priorities, and influence decisions without direct authority.

The position is part of the Global Cyber Security function and the Cyber Security Architecture and Engineering team, and reports to the Senior Manager of Cyber Security Solution Architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 6 years of experience in information security, including at least 2 years in a security architecture role or equivalent experience.
• Technical depth across multiple domains such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP), DevSecOps, application security, platform security, endpoint security, IoT, OT, network security, or zero-trust architecture.
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001 and ability to translate them into practical standards, guardrails, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to negotiate complex technical and risk decisions, find common ground, and secure commitment to practical outcomes across teams with competing priorities.
• Collaboration and relationship-building skills, including active listening, empathy, curiosity, and the ability to establish trust with technical and non-technical partners.
• Influencing and consulting skills, with a track record of guiding decisions and driving adoption without direct authority.
• Facilitation skills to structure ambiguous discussions, surface assumptions, manage disagreement constructively, and lead groups toward clear decisions.
• Verbal, written, and presentation skills, including ability to simplify complex security topics and tailor messages to executives, product leaders, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, sound judgment, and ability to evaluate information from multiple sources and recommend proportionate action.
• Demonstrated results reducing risk and security technical debt while enabling timely delivery and sustainable engineering practices.
• Comfort with ambiguity, organizational change, and evolving priorities, with resilience and adaptability to maintain progress.
• A coaching mindset that elevates others, encourages shared ownership of security, and contributes to an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Nice To Haves

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, SABSA, or TOGAF; equivalent experience and demonstrated capability will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop and advance cybersecurity strategies for commercial and restaurant platforms and services in alignment with business priorities, company goals, and industry best practices.
• Build partnerships with product, platform, engineering, architecture, operations, privacy, risk, and business leaders to embed security throughout planning, design, and delivery.
• Lead collaborative architecture reviews and working sessions to identify security gaps, clarify tradeoffs, and establish pragmatic, risk-based paths forward.
• Influence stakeholders at multiple levels without direct authority using clear reasoning, credible evidence, active listening, and an understanding of business context.
• Champion secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles and coach teams in applying them across products and platforms.
• Define, review, and promote reusable architecture artifacts, security models, standards, guardrails, and design patterns.
• Improve visibility of business and technology risk through threat modeling, control mapping, and architecture assessments, and document decisions, risks, exceptions, and mitigations.
• Translate technical and risk topics into concise recommendations for executives, product leaders, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Assess alignment with security and compliance frameworks, including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS, and help teams translate obligations into practical design outcomes.

Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility
• Long-term incentive eligibility
• Health insurance, including medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Adoption assistance program
• Educational assistance program
• Flexible ways of working
• Time off policies, including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior