Job Details

Overview

The Director, Application Architecture 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

Strategy

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and solutions (DPS) 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, understand the implications to the application architecture and identify/mitigate risks to solutions
• Champion and communicate the application architecture to business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implications 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 proofs of concepts or prototypes
• Partner with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future

Compensation and Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $125,900 - $249,900.
• 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.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 25% of annual salary paid out annually and an additional target payout of 10% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

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
• 10+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• 3+ years' managing multiple application architects/solution architects/principal software engineers
• 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

Differentiating Competencies

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
• Ability to run a large team of software engineers
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
• Ability 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

EEO Statement

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and all other applicable laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity. If you would like more information about EEO rights as an applicant, please view the PepsiCo EEO Policy and Pay Transparency Statement.