Job Description

Overview

The 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