VP of Engineering: AI, Data & Enterprise Platforms

CCentral; United States; On-site; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Telemedicine

Mental wellness support

Job summary

Restaurant Brands International (RBI) is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to design and operate the technology platforms powering global restaurant data, reporting, franchisee access, and AI enablement. You will lead teams delivering enterprise data, security, and analytics capabilities across TIM HORTONS, BURGER KING, POPEYES, and FIREHOUSE SUBS brands.

The role requires building scalable platforms, partnering with security and compliance, and driving AI adoption with governance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 10+ years leading large teams.
• Strong understanding of data-governance frameworks (GDPR/DSAR, SOX).
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise reporting solutions, operational analytics, and data-driven applications.
• Own platforms supporting brand reporting experiences.
• Oversee engineering for franchisee access platforms, identity, authorization, and secure data access for company and 3rd-party apps.
• Define the architecture and strategy for enterprise systems.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure 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.
• 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 APIs, models, and tools with strong data governance.
• Establish strong data observability, quality monitoring, and support processes.
• Lead engineering efforts to enable responsible, secure use of AI across the enterprise.
• 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.
• Own production operations, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Drive best practices across reliability, testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Data governance

Cloud security

Snowflake

AWS

Executive communication

AI enablement

Vendor management

Machine learning basics

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Restaurant Brands International (RBI) is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to design and operate the technology platforms powering global restaurant data, reporting, franchisee access, and AI enablement. You will lead teams delivering enterprise data, security, and analytics capabilities across TIM HORTONS, BURGER KING, POPEYES, and FIREHOUSE SUBS brands.

The role requires building scalable platforms, partnering with security and compliance, and driving AI adoption with governance.