SWE & Principal Application Architect

Overview Platform and Solution Engineering at PepsiCo The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo’s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. The Platform and Solution Engineering team designs, builds, and stands up digital solutions across the value chain, that are embedded into business processes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI. Guided by PEPSICO’s global priorities, the Platform and Solution Engineering team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research. Application Architect The Application Architect will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain. This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design and provide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technical direction, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies. Responsibilities Role Responsibilities: Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Strategy Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support Platform and Solution Engineering across S&T core priorities Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals Manages an application architecture governance process develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise Review business drivers and strategies understands the implications to the application architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions. Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals. Architect Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation Innovate Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience 7+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems  Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design   Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)  Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions  Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems  Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems  Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services  Deep knowledge of design patterns  Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks  Full stack engineering experience  Preferred Qualifications: Strong understanding of SAP ERP implementations, data schemas involved. O9 experience Net Revenue Management experience Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Compensation and Benefits: The expected starting compensation range for this position is 400,500 PLN annually (gross). Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process. This role is eligible for an annual bonus, based on performance and eligibility. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility.
Role Responsibilities: Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Strategy Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support Platform and Solution Engineering across S&T core priorities Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals Manages an application architecture governance process develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise Review business drivers and strategies understands the implications to the application architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions. Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals. Architect Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation Innovate Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future
Minimum Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience 7+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems  Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design   Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)  Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions  Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems  Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems  Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services  Deep knowledge of design patterns  Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks  Full stack engineering experience  Preferred Qualifications: Strong understanding of SAP ERP implementations, data schemas involved. O9 experience Net Revenue Management experience Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level Compensation and Benefits: The expected starting compensation range for this position is 400,500 PLN annually (gross). Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process. This role is eligible for an annual bonus, based on performance and eligibility. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility.