OverviewThe Solution 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- Guide a team of engineers to build and support across S&T core priorities.
- Work with multi-discipline teams distributed across locations to implement architectures from the development phase through the launch phase.
- Work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units and navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people and teams.
- Manage and appropriately escalate 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.
- 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.
- Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture.
- Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks, and prepare for the future.
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
- 5+ years of experience on IBP solution architecture preferably with o9, Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
- Working knowledge of IBPL programming language.
- 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
