Associate Principal Engineer

This Role will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the organization. Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCos 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 core priorities.

1. Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
2. Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
3. Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
4. Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
5. Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering

6. 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
7. Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
8. Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 3+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• (Must Have) Expertise in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing, Creating REST APIS

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(Good to Have) -

Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React / React Native FrontEnd frameworks, Full stack engineering experience.

• Experience with Cloud Technologies like, 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