Senior Principal Solution Architect

Overview

PepsiCo’s Digital Transformation requires new business processes, new digital products and new operations outcomes. This high velocity Digital Transformation necessitates effective, modern & resilient operations in an SRE construct for all the programs under TS& EP Portfolio, per the main purpose to drive higher order outcomes to our customers who use our tools / products to achieve their business process resiliency enabled via a full SRE Practice incident prevention / proactive resolution model in the 200+ application portfolio of Cloud native, Traditional, COTS & SAAS solutions. To bring this to life, we are looking for a self-driven, forward thinking Principal Solution Architect – SRE Application Design & Cross Product Resiliency Solutions, an advanced subject matter expert of application architectures both traditional on‑prem and modern cloud native, seasoned leader of SRE application engineering to:

• Design & enable new shift left activities building a world‑class AI‑ready function, "SRE @Design", that embeds resiliency within the product, cross product interactions & business needs ensuring PepsiCo’s digital ecosystem stays ahead of high‑velocity market changes.
• Oversight into production, as continuous improvements, of the SRE Orchestration of anomalies & resiliency actions preventing P1/P2/P3 & Customer impact items across the end2end ecosystem achieving business / user KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Platform Solution Engineering - SRE Practice. Is accountable & responsible to drive the SRE Engineering activities within the application(s) design and architecting the SRE Cross product resiliency solutions that enables seamless pre‑emptive & proactive detect, diagnose & recover minimizing the impact operating in an ever evolving landscape of product offerings to deliver first class service to our customers.
• Accountable to engage, influence & collaborate across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Operations defining & achieving end2end output resiliency solutions via engineering standards, SRE principles and practices.
• Solution architect & drive across teams maturing towards zero net impact Day 1 operations of change, KPI & transition through design.
• Be the technical leader instituting logging, non‑functional requirements, preventing faulty outcomes health checks are baked into the solution architecture through design via new programs or a uplift roadmap to reach maturity.
• Leads the definition, collection and analysis of data relevant products systems and their interactions towards business process resiliency especially related impacting customer satisfaction, revenue or IT productivity.
• A key player maturing as best of breed instrumentation & anomaly standards & practices in the diverse nature of our solutions involving digital cloud, data pipelines, traditional architecture as transactional data assurance, health & consumption measures including open telemetry.
• Responsible to architecting & developing SRE orchestration plug‑in capabilities leveraging data & AI towards the business outcomes ensuring effective consumption & integration of diagnostics, anomaly detection, and resiliency actions to deliver automated and personalized experiences.
• Seasoned with hands on developing full stack solutions in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit, backend microservices, serverless computing and REST APIs, along with PostgreSQL and SQL.
• An expert of application solution architectures ensuring we are designing SRE orchestration solution to scale across the cloud native and traditional on‑prem application of 200+ apps across business processes, applications, services (ie. data pipelines) and infrastructure.
• Integral part of being in front on critical issues driving timely resolution and clear communication with stakeholders.
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business.
• Influences product, engineering, UI/UX tech debt prioritization balancing impact, cost & optimization.
• Evolves our organization as industry leader in SRE & AI Ops capabilities partnering with both internal enterprise architecture and external SRE practitioners.
• Evangelism and education throughout S&T with all levels of leadership to ensure awareness and alignment of application reliability & assurance objectives and AI initiatives.
• Operates in an ever‑evolving landscape of product offerings to deliver first class service to our customers.

Compensation and Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $140,100 - $234,850.
• 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 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, insurance (accident, group legal, life), defined contribution retirement plan.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, preferably a master’s or PhD in computer science or engineering preferred.
• 16-20 years of experience working within a cross‑functional technology organization in partnership with sector leads, global software engineering, enterprise/solution architecture, information security.
• Minimum of 10-12 years of software development, solution architect, engineering management practice delivering digital enablement across a global technology function especially towards a north star transformation.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit, microservices, serverless computing, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Kafka, data pipelines, data products, EBI.
• A seasoned application solution architect with 5+ years of experience as a cloud & on‑prem architecture in hyperscale public cloud, Azure, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions.
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design & working knowledge of programming languages beyond Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl).
• A firm understanding of SRE (software reliability engineering) and IT service management processes with a track record for improving service offerings – resolving incidents, providing a seamless customer/end‑user experience and proactively identifying and mitigating areas of risk.
• Experience in designing resilience & failure modeling – early‑stage threat modeling & analysis to build self‑healing systems.
• Governance & blueprinting organizational technical standards and compliance early to avoid late‑stage rework.
• Solution guidelines reducing change related incidents in production via monitoring, outage, rollback, business effect, integrations impact, smoke test.
• The ideal leader will be highly quantitative, have great judgment, able to connect dots across workstreams, and efficiently work cross‑functionally across teams to ensure SRE orchestrating solutions are meeting customer/end‑user expectations.
• Good understanding of business process management, rule based processing, enterprise application design, business domain model definition & UML patterns.
• A true product mindset, technical influencing across stakeholders with ability to build cross‑functional relationships through trust, respect, and partnership.
• Core technical exposure in application solutions.
• AKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, backend SQL, no SQL, AppDynamics, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Key Vault.
• Languages – C#, Java, ASP.NET, API, Restful, microservice, ReactJS.
• Frameworks – .NET Core, JDK, SpringBoot, WCF, Web API.
• Database – Postgres, MySQL, MemSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cloudera, NoSQL.
• Cloud Platform – Azure, AWS, Google.
• Testing tools – JMeter, Selenium, QTP 9.0, LoadRunner 6.0.
• Integration servers – Biztalk, Axway, Boomi.
• Workload automation, e‑Gate, Mirth.

Differentiating Competencies

• A fast and fearless leader, learner and team player that embraces a transformational mindset and company’s core values better, stronger and faster.
• Ability to identify patterns, process information quickly, and make decisions in a timely manner – analytical mindset.
• Ability to create new solutions to old problems, even when greeted with opposition – innovative mindset.
• Ability to greet each new day, project, escalation or setback as an opportunity to improve – positive mindset.
• Ability to stand up for what is right and most advantageous for the company, its employees and its shareholders – fearless mindset.

EEO Statement

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