Overview

We are PepsiCo

PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies with more than $79 Billion in Net Revenue and a global portfolio of diverse and beloved brands. We have a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes 22 brands that each generate more than $1 Billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo's strength is its people. We are over 250,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, located around the world, and united by a shared set of values and goals.

Digital Products and Services at PepsiCo

The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo’s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. The Digital Products & Services team designs, builds, and stands up digital solutions across the value chain, that are embedded into business processes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI. Guided by PEPSICO’s global priorities, the Digital Products & Services team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research.

Associate Director-Software Engineering

The candidate 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 deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations.

The leader 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 leader 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.

Responsibilities

Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities

Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio

Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.

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

Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences

Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders

Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

Expert in Web and eCommerce technologies

3+ years’ experience managing developers with 1+ years of managing multiple managers/teams 

Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

Working knowledge of programming languages - Java and JavaScript

Working knowledge of BackEnd and FrontEnd Frameworks – Spring/SpringBoot/React/ReactNative and NodeJS ecosystem

Drive Best Practices of Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Architecture Reviews

Metrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLC

Experience with Azure (preferred), Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions 

Working knowledge of Cloud Native Development including concepts of Message Queues, Distributed Caching, Load Balancing, RDBMS, NoSQL, KeyValueStores, REST API’S, etc.

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, architecture patterns 

Employment Value Proposition

At PepsiCo, we recognize that our success is driven by our talented and dedicated employees. Our Employee Value Proposition is built on a foundation of competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to your professional growth and personal well-being. We offer a dynamic and inclusive workplace where innovation thrives and your contributions are celebrated. Join us to make an impact, grow your career, and be part of a company that values sustainability, community engagement, and ethical practices.

Associate Director-Software Engineering

Associate Director-Software Engineering

Share this job now