PepsiCo is looking to drive digital evolution to be FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER by designing, building, and standing up digital solutions across the value chain to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI. The Principal Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization to deliver end-to-end software development experience and high-quality software as part of the DevOps process.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 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
- Expertise in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing, Creating REST API’S
- 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
Responsibilities
- Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
- 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.
- 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
Other
- Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
- Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
