Full-Time
Data Engineer
Yum! Brands
5,001-10,000 employees
Global franchisor of fast-food restaurants
No salary listed
Junior, Mid
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
In Person
- 2+ years of data engineering experience.
- 2+ years of experience building cloud data solutions (e.g. on Azure, AWS, GCP) and using services such as storage, virtual machines, serverless technologies and parallel processing technologies.
- Proficiency in Python and its supporting libraries for data processing [good to have]
- Experience processing structured & semi-structured data.
- Experience building serverless APIs (AWS preferred, but any cloud environment works)
- Working knowledge of agile development, including DevOps concepts (IAC, CI/CD, etc.)
- Experience with cloud SDKs and programmatic access services.
- Partner with KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell & Habit Burger to identify opportunities to leverage company data to drive business outcomes.
- Play a key role in our advanced analytics team - developing data-driven solutions, and responsible for driving Yum Growth.
- Design and develop scalable streaming data integration frameworks to move and transform a variety of data sets.
- Develop on the Yum! data platform by building applications using a mix of open-source frameworks (Py-Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, etc.) and best in breed SaaS tools (Informatica Cloud, Snowflake, Domo, etc.).
- Implement and manage production support processes around data lifecycle, data quality, coding utilities, storage, reporting and other data integration point.
- Experience building solutions utilizing streaming or event processing (Kafka, Spark Streaming, Pulsar, etc.) is a plus.
- Cloud certifications are a plus.
Yum! Brands operates a global network of quick-service restaurants, including well-known brands like KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill. The company uses a franchise model, which allows it to expand quickly across more than 155 countries while keeping operational costs low. Franchisees pay fees and royalties, providing Yum! Brands with a steady income stream. Each restaurant chain targets different customer segments within the fast-food market, catering to a diverse audience. Unlike many competitors, Yum! Brands focuses on a multi-brand strategy, allowing it to leverage various market niches and maintain a strong brand presence worldwide.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Louisville, Kentucky
Founded
1997
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI-powered marketing campaigns boost customer engagement with double-digit increases.
- Taco Bell's R.I.N.G. The Bell strategy aims to double innovation in 2025.
- AI adoption enhances customer experience and operational efficiency across Yum! Brands' restaurants.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition from AI-driven fast food chains like McDonald's.
- Potential backlash from automation leading to job displacement and privacy concerns.
- Rapid innovation may cause operational disruptions if not managed properly.
What makes Yum! Brands unique
- Yum! Brands leverages a multi-brand portfolio including KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.
- The company utilizes a franchise model for rapid global expansion and brand presence.
- Yum! Brands partners with Nvidia to enhance AI-driven restaurant technology.
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Flexible Work Hours
Professional Development Budget
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Company News
Darlin joined Newsweek in 2023 from Yum!
Quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant Yum! Brands has partnered with Nvidia to develop and scale artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for its restaurants. These technologies will be deployed at the QSR company’s KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger Grill restaurants, the companies said in a Tuesday (March 18) press release. The partnership will help scale Yum! Brands’ existing proprietary AI-driven restaurant technology platform Byte by Yum!, according to the release
Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up its use of AI.
The fast food industry is stepping up its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, with market stalwarts including McDonald’s, Yum! Brands and Wendy’s expanding their deployment of the technology to streamline operations, improve profitability and enhance the customer experience. Last week, McDonald’s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski cited AI adoption among his top three trends in 2025 for the quick service restaurant industry. (The other two were protein and sauces.). “Everybody’s talking about AI and AI certainly has a lot of applications in our business,” he said on Instagram. “We’ve got a number of teams looking at how we can use AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers and even better experience for our crew members.”
With ambitions to double innovation, the brand is sharing exclusive insights into its plan toR.I.N.G. The Bell for winning in the years aheadTLDR:Taco Bell announces its business growth plan, R.I.N.G. The Bell: R elentlessly I nnovative N ext-Generation G rowth.elentlessly nnovative ext-Generation rowth. After reaching a milestone of $1 billion in operating profit in 2024, Taco Bell launches off last year's momentum to drive double the innovation in 2025.in operating profit in 2024, Taco Bell launches off last year's momentum to drive double the innovation in 2025. Ahead of Live Más LIVE 2025, Taco Bell reveals how it aims to redefine its global brand experience across menus, service, operations and tech.Stay up to date with Live Más LIVE 2025 on social and www.tacobell.com/livemaslive.Investor materials can be found here.IRVINE, Calif., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Following an impressive year of innovation on and off the menu, Taco Bell is giving investors and fans alike even more reason to believe in the brand's magic for 2025.Taco Bell announces its business growth plan, R.I.N.G. The Bell, as it aims to drive double the innovation in 2025.Taco Bell is sharing its business strategy via a unique investor event, Consumer Day, in partnership with parent company Yum! Brands