Vice President, Engineering

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Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.

Vice President, Engineering, Restaurant Brands International

Location:

Miami, FL (in-office)

Reports to:

Chief Information Officer

About RBI

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (“RBI”) is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI’s principal executive offices are in Miami, Florida. In North America, RBI’s brands are headquartered in their home markets where they were founded decades ago: Canada for Tim Hortons and the U.S. for Burger King, Popeyes and Firehouse Subs.

Role Scope and Impact

Have you ever considered what powers the platforms, data, and AI that run a global restaurant enterprise? Look no more!

The Vice President of Engineering is responsible for building and operating the technology platforms that power enterprise data, reporting, restaurant data management, franchisee user access, and AI enablement across the organization. This role leads teams that deliver high-impact, business-critical solutions including performance portals, speed-of-service applications, franchisee systems, and the enterprise data and reporting platforms.

What You’ll Do

Engineering \& Platform Leadership

• Lead multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise reporting solutions, operational analytics, and data-driven applications.
• Own platforms supporting brand reporting experiences.

Franchisee \& Enterprise Access Systems

• Oversee engineering for franchisee access platforms, identity, authorization, and secure data access providing services and access to company developed and 3rd party applications.
• Define the architecture and strategy for enterprise systems
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure appropriate controls and governance.
• Improve usability and self-service while maintaining strong security posture.
• Lead architecture, engineering and operations of restaurant attributes and master data platforms.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and availability across brands and systems.

Enterprise Data Platform

• Own the architecture, engineering and operations of the enterprise data platform which is Snowflake.
• Ensure reliable ingestion, monitoring, support, and onboarding of new data sources.
• Make data broadly available through well-designed APIs, models, and tools and a strong data governance program. Support consumers of enterprise data that is used for business reporting, financial systems integration and customer operations
• Establish strong data observability, quality monitoring, and support processes.

AI Enablement

• Lead engineering efforts to enable responsible, secure use of AI across the enterprise supporting the brands and corporate functions in adoption of AI and automation techniques and tools.
• Provide platforms, tools, and guardrails for AI adoption and automation.
• Enable natural language analytics and AI-driven automation
• Drive AI Adoption around the organization and within the brands

Operational Excellence

• Own production operations, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Drive best practices across reliability, testing, CI/CD, and security.

People \& Culture

• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 12\+ years of software engineering experience
• 10\+ years leading large teams
• Deep understanding of data-governance frameworks (GDPR/DSAR, SOX)
• Strong cloud-native and security background
• Expertise with Snowflake and AWS
• Executive-level communication and business partnership skills
• Experience with machine learning and associated mathematics
• Bonafide experience in AI enablement, tooling and solution implementation
• Experience with vendor management and negotiation

Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, free telemedicine and mental wellness support.

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.