​Application Architect, Sr. Manager​

Location: Plano, Texas, United States

Overview Job Title: Application Architect, Sr. Manager Employer: PepsiCo, Inc. Location: 7701 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX 75024 Responsibilities Duties: Develop and lead a team of engineers to build and support Digital Products and Services, ensuring alignment with business goals. Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations. Build, develop, and mentor engineering teams. Ensure engineering solutions do not lead to poor business outcomes, add unnecessary complexity, or cause maintenance issues. Advocate for best practices and new technologies. Align application architecture with business goals, manage governance processes, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, policies, and standards. Improve engineering effectiveness through new programs, automation, re-architecture, and platform migrations. Eliminate bottlenecks and resolve cross-application architecture problems. Evangelize application strategies to executive audiences and make a compelling business case for software investment through exceptional communication skills. Work closely with company executives to understand future needs, develop application strategies, and negotiate overall technology direction and resourcing. Supervise the design and implementation of applications, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Conduct design reviews and clarify user stories. Review business drivers and strategies, understand implications to application architecture, and identify/mitigate risks to solutions. Conduct industry research, analyze trends, educate teams on new frameworks, and motivate innovation. Develop proof of concepts or prototypes. *Telecommuting permitted 40%: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the PepsiCo, Inc. office in Plano, Texas. #LI-DNI Qualifications Job Requirements: Position requires a Bachelor's degree (US or Foreign Equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field and ten (10) years of experience in software development and engineering leadership. Must have ten (10) years of experience in: Data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software design patterns; and C#, Java or C/C++, and scripting languages (Python or Perl). Must have seven (7) years of experience in: Front end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript or React; and experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, SQL Azure, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar). Must have six (6) years of experience in: Architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems. Must have five (5) years of experience in: Cloud architecture and deployment using Azure, AWS or equivalent private cloud; and developing and leveraging system-to-system protocols to connect large scale platforms. Salary: $209,394 - $218,100/ year QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Visit http://www.pepsicojobs.com and search req ID # 458360 or job title. Click on matching job and follow directions to submit resume. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. PepsiCo is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities/Females/Disability/Protected Veteran. 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, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, 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 / Age If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy. Please view our Pay Transparency Statement.

Responsibilities

Duties: Develop and lead a team of engineers to build and support Digital Products and Services, ensuring alignment with business goals. Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations. Build, develop, and mentor engineering teams. Ensure engineering solutions do not lead to poor business outcomes, add unnecessary complexity, or cause maintenance issues. Advocate for best practices and new technologies. Align application architecture with business goals, manage governance processes, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, policies, and standards. Improve engineering effectiveness through new programs, automation, re-architecture, and platform migrations. Eliminate bottlenecks and resolve cross-application architecture problems. Evangelize application strategies to executive audiences and make a compelling business case for software investment through exceptional communication skills. Work closely with company executives to understand future needs, develop application strategies, and negotiate overall technology direction and resourcing. Supervise the design and implementation of applications, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Conduct design reviews and clarify user stories. Review business drivers and strategies, understand implications to application architecture, and identify/mitigate risks to solutions. Conduct industry research, analyze trends, educate teams on new frameworks, and motivate innovation. Develop proof of concepts or prototypes. *Telecommuting permitted 40%: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from the PepsiCo, Inc. office in Plano, Texas. #LI-DNI

Qualifications

Job Requirements: Position requires a Bachelor's degree (US or Foreign Equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field and ten (10) years of experience in software development and engineering leadership. Must have ten (10) years of experience in: Data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software design patterns; and C#, Java or C/C++, and scripting languages (Python or Perl). Must have seven (7) years of experience in: Front end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript or React; and experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, SQL Azure, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar). Must have six (6) years of experience in: Architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems. Must have five (5) years of experience in: Cloud architecture and deployment using Azure, AWS or equivalent private cloud; and developing and leveraging system-to-system protocols to connect large scale platforms. Salary: $209,394 - $218,100/ year QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Visit http://www.pepsicojobs.com and search req ID # 458360 or job title. Click on matching job and follow directions to submit resume. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. PepsiCo is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities/Females/Disability/Protected Veteran.