Principal Application Architect - 317289

at PepsiCo Corp in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Overview
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
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 digital products and services (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 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
Compensation and Benefits

The expected compensation range for this position is between $135,000 - $227,500 based on a full-time schedule.
Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary.
Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
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
Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field  
* Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred 
* Minimum 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 such as Java and microservices programming frameworks such as Spring Boot
* Working experience of microservices platforms such as Kubernetes
* Experience with data streaming and integration technologies like Confluent Kafka
* Deep knowledge in cloud native document databases Azure Cosmos
* Working experience in cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services
* 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 Transportation Management Systems, Warehouse Management Systems, Yard Management Systems implementations and corresponding data schemas involved
* Integration experience with Transportation and Warehouse technologies such as Blue Yonder TMS, Blue Yonder One Network, Four Kites, Geotab
* 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

EEO Statement
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.