SWE & Principal Application Architect

PepsiCo Inc.; Kraków; Sur place; PLN 360 000 - 441 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

PepsiCo Inc. is seeking an Application Architect in Kraków to lead end-to-end application design and governance across Strategy & Transformation. You will guide a team of engineers, set technical direction, and ensure scalable, high-impact digital solutions across PepsiCo’s value chain.

The role emphasizes collaboration with regional and global partners, oversight of architecture governance, and alignment with business goals, while driving architectural excellence and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsabilités

• Define development guidelines and standards for applications and integration.
• Analyze current IT ecosystem to identify weaknesses and opportunities for improvements.
• Define transition steps from current to future architecture across the organization.
• Develop and maintain IT ecosystem architecture models, processes, and documentation.
• Identify emerging technologies to enable the overall business architecture.
• Partner with teams to build a comprehensive reference architecture.

Connaissances

Data structures

Algorithms

Object-oriented design

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React-Redux

Full stack engineering

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Formation

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master’s or PhD in CS/Engineering (preferred)

Outils

Azure

Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SAP ERP (preferred)

Description du poste

Overview

Platform and Solution Engineering at PepsiCo

The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo’s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. The Platform and Solution Engineering 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 Platform and Solution Engineering team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research.

Application Architect

The 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 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.

Responsibilities

Role Responsibilities

• 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 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 escalated 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 the application 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
• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferredMinimum of10years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
• 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 withAzure, Google Cloud,Amazon Web Servicesand 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.
• O9 experience
• Net Revenue Management experience
• 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

Compensation and Benefits

• The expected starting compensation range for this position is 400,500 PLN annually (gross).
• 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.
• This role is eligible for an annual bonus, based on performance and eligibility.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility.