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For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world’s leading brands and their customers. And while we’ve already done a lot of work we’re proud of, we’re just getting started!
We’re a global technology company focused on creating dynamic, smart, personalised and engaging customer experiences powered by our range of digital hardware, our proprietary content management system and our industry leading signage solutions. (For example: If you’ve ordered in-store or in the drive-thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world in the last few years, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions.) We work in over 50 global markets and have 9 offices around the world, with a global headquarters proudly located in our founding home of Sydney, Australia.
Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose – Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work, dedication and creativity, we’ve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.
We are curious, charismatic, authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers. And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.
The Senior Director, Delivery (McDonald’s) is accountable for the effective planning, coordination, and execution of delivery across the McDonald's portfolio of programs, squads and releases. The role ensures work is delivered predictably, environments and releases are managed efficiently, and cross-functional teams are aligned to achieve business and client outcomes. Through strong leadership, governance, and continuous improvement, the role drives delivery excellence at scale.
Portfolio Delivery Leadership: Lead delivery across multiple programs, squads, and work streams, ensuring commitments are realistic, coordinated, and delivered predictably.
Release Planning & Execution: Oversee integrated release planning and execution across squads, ensuring features progress smoothly through the SDLC.
Program Governance: Govern larger initiatives spanning multiple squads, managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and benefits realisation.
Delivery Flow & Dependency Management: Improve quality and throughput across squads by resolving blockers, managing cross-team dependencies, and enabling efficient flow from planning to production.
Release & Environment Management: Lead the release management practice and environment governance, ensuring coordinated release calendars, deployment readiness, environment availability, and effective management of environment demand, conflicts, and dependencies.
Governance, Reporting & Risk Control: Maintain clear delivery & program governance, forecasting, RAID management, and timely escalation of issues requiring decisions.
Cross-Functional & Client Alignment: Partner with Product, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and client stakeholders to align priorities, capacity, practices, and delivery readiness.
Resource & Commercial Management: Manage delivery capacity, budgets, and partner resources to ensure efficient utilisation and commercially sound outcomes.
People Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Build a high-performing Delivery function and continuously improve planning discipline, release effectiveness, delivery cadence, and team capability.
12+ years in software Program Management and/or technology delivery with 5 years of experience leading large and complex technology portfolios
Proven track-record delivering enterprise-scale software, digital, or platform initiatives across multiple concurrent squads or streams
Strong experience managing continuous delivery models with frequent releases, coordinated testing cycles, and production deployments
Experience in Agile, hybrid, and structured delivery models, with sound judgement on fit-for-purpose governance
Strong commercial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and partner/vendor management
Strong stakeholder management skills, including executive, client, and cross-functional engagement