Software Engineering - Architect

The Senior Software Engineer 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 corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo's value chain. This candidate will support the end-to-end software development experience, and deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process.

The candidate in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This candidate will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities.

1. Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and applications (DPA) across S&T core priorities
2. Hands-on development of in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing and REST API'S
3. Partner with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
4. Lead and manage the application support team ensuring 24x7 availability and performance of mission-critical systems.
5. Act as the primary escalation point for critical application issues, driving timely resolution and clear communication with stakeholders.
6. Support expanding DPA capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
7. Help problem solve delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
8. Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 5+ years of Hand on experience in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit, MicroServices, Serverless Computing, Rest APIs, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Working knowledge of programming languages beyond 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 implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Good to have Fullstack engineering experience