Deputy Director - SWE & App Arch Sr. Principal Engineer

PepsiCo; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 9,000,000 - 15,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking a leader to establish an end-to-end application design vision and provide technology leadership for platform and solution engineering within S&T. You will define the architecture, select standards, and guide engineering teams to deliver scalable, maintainable digital products across the organization.

The role requires deep experience in fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, and full-stack capabilities, with the ability to interact with executives and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience.
• 10+ years of experience architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the end-to-end application architecture strategy for digital products and platforms.
• Guide engineering teams, mentors, and interacts with executives to communicate architectural vision.
• Oversee design patterns, standards, and governance across S&T platform initiatives.
• Identify risks, drive mitigation, and ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Champion monitoring, observability, and continuous improvement across large-scale systems.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Object-oriented design

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React-Redux

Full stack engineering

Cloud cost optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)

Tools

Azure

Google Cloud

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Spring Boot

Job description

Overview

Application Architecture plays 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 PepsiCo’s value chain. This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design and provide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technical direction, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies.

Responsible for architecting, designing, and analyzing the logical and physical architecture for digital products and applications. Defines the technology stack, reusable design patterns, and standards to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability. Develops logical and physical architecture, including front-end/back-end separation, database design, and workflow sequencing, while optimizing for performance and cost efficiency. Utilizes advanced technology solutions to define monitoring strategies for performance, availability, and system health. Identifies potential technical risks and develops mitigation strategies to ensure reliability and business continuity. Evaluates and selects appropriate frameworks, tools, and technologies for digital product development and deployment, and provides architecture guidance and standards to ensure consistent implementation by engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support Platform and Solution Engineering across S&T core priorities
• 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
• Manage and appropriately elevate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Businessgoals
• Review business drivers and strategies to understand the implications to theapplication architecture and identify/mitigate risks to solutions
• Championand communicate the application architecture to businessleaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of thearchitecture to objectives/drivers/goals

Architecture

• 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
• Ensure adherence to architecture processes, principles,policies and standards for the enterprise
• Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future applicationarchitecture
• Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in applicationdevelopment and integration
• Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend acrossorganizational and functional lines
• Develop and maintain application architecture models, processesand documentation
• Analyzethe current IT ecosystem application architecture to identifyweaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements

Innovation

• Identifyemerging technologies that can enable the overall businessarchitecture
• Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
• Partner with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture,examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of10years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
• 10+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 withAzure, Google Cloud,Amazon Web Servicesand cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions, Postgre, Mongo DB, Spring Boot
• 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
• Experience defining and driving enterprise application architecture strategy and governance
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and reliability practices for large-scale systems
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and build/run-time cost analysis (FinOps)
• Experience building reusable platforms, shared services, or reference architectures
• Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools and modern engineering practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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