ResponsibilitiesThe Application Architect 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 PepsiCos value chain. This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design andprovide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technicaldirection, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies.
Role Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the end-to-end architecture for procurement solutions, including Requisition-to-Pay (S2P), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and supplier management.
- Ensure alignment with business objectives, industry best practices, and emerging trends in procurement digitalization.
- Design scalable, modular, and API-driven solutions that integrate seamlessly with ERP, finance, and supply chain systems
- 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
Strategy
- Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and application (DPA) across S&T core priorities
- Ability to work with multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
- Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
- Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
- Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Businessgoals
- Manages an application architecture governance process develops,communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles,policies and standards for the enterprise
- Review business drivers and strategies understands the implications to theapplication architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions.
- Championand communicate the application architecture to the businessleaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of thearchitecture to objectives/drivers/goals.
Architect
- Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in applicationdevelopment and integration
- Analyzethe current IT ecosystem application architecture to identifyweaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
- Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future applicationarchitecture
- Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development ofapplications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform isdeployed across the entire organization
- Design and deliver Technical/Solution design documents having LLDs, Physical, logical architectures, sequence flow diagrams, Database schemas etc.
- Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend acrossorganizational and functional lines
- Develop and maintainIT ecosystem application architecture models, processesand documentation
Innovate
- Identifyemerging technologies that can enable the overall businessarchitecture
- Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
- Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture,examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future
Qualifications- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
- Minimum of14years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
- Strong experience in procurement processes,
- Expertise in ERP integrations (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP) with procurement platforms.
- Deep understanding of procurement models, direct & indirect procurement, raw material sourcing, and supplier compliance.
- 7+years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
- Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, andobject-orienteddesign
- Working knowledge of programming languages beyondC#,Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)
- Experience cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
- Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput cloudnative distributedsystems
- Experience implementing and consuminglarge-scaleweb services
- Deep knowledge of design patterns
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or otherfront-endframeworks
- Full stack engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of SAP ERP implementations, data schemas involved.
- Experience in Transport, warehouse and other supply chain management systems
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
- 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
- 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
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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