Principal Software Engineer

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S&T Org, Digital Products and Services (DPS Team) at PepsiCo

The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo's ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. Under the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization, 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.

Manager of Software Engineering

The Manager of Software Engineering 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 corner stone 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

• Support 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

Compensation & Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $102,800 - $172,100.
• 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 12% 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

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

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience

• 2+ years' experience managing people

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

• Working knowledge of multiple programming languages Java, Python, JavaScript (NodeJS) and their ecosystems / frameworks like SpringBoot, tools like npm / React / ReactNative, etc.

• Experience with 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

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks

• Full stack engineering experience

Qualities

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized

• Ability to run a large team of software engineers

• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities

• 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

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.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

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.

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