Analytics Platform Engineer

PepsiCo Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 82,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Insurance

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking an entry-level Analytics Platform Engineer for the Digital Commerce Analytics Platform. You will contribute to dbt infrastructure, CI/CD, Airflow orchestration, and metadata systems while learning AI-driven capabilities for insights.

You will work with senior engineers to build reliable platform tooling supporting data delivery and reporting teams, with opportunities to influence tooling choices and standards.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience (including internships, co-ops, or substantial academic/personal projects)
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Exposure to BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
• Exposure to large language models and their application to analytics workflows
• Experience with version control (Git) and branching strategies
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the dbt project infrastructure including CI/CD workflows, project configuration, macros, and testing frameworks
• Build and support Apache Airflow orchestration infrastructure, ensuring reliable scheduling, monitoring, and scalability
• Maintain and evolve the CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions workflows, pre-commit hooks, automated validation)
• Manage and administer the Power BI platform including workspace governance and deployment pipelines
• Develop and maintain metadata collection systems for tracking pipeline health and model ownership
• Define and enforce best practices, patterns, and conventions across data delivery and report delivery engineering teams
• Support evaluation and prototyping of AI-for-BI capabilities, including AI insights
• Research and evaluate emerging tools and technologies; present findings
• Participate in build-vs-buy assessments and tooling decisions
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify platform gaps and deliver scalable solutions

Skills

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Git

BI platforms

LLMs for analytics

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Apache Airflow

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Power BI

Tableau

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Job description

Overview

The Digital Commerce Analytics Platform team builds, maintains, scales, and evolves the analytics platform that powers data engineering, analytics engineering, and report/insight delivery across PepsiCo's Digital Commerce organization. This entry-level role will contribute to platform development - from dbt project infrastructure and CI/CD to orchestration, metadata systems, and emerging AI-driven capabilities. The Analytics Platform Engineer will work alongside senior engineers to deliver reliable, scalable platform tooling that delivery engineering teams depend on daily.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the dbt project infrastructure - including CI/CD workflows, project configuration, macros, and testing frameworks - that delivery engineering teams build upon
• Build and support Apache Airflow orchestration infrastructure, ensuring reliable scheduling, monitoring, and scalability for data pipelines
• Maintain and evolve the CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions workflows, pre-commit hooks, automated validation) that enforces quality and deployment standards
• Manage and administer the Power BI platform - including workspace governance, capacity management, and deployment pipelines - to support report delivery teams
• Develop and maintain metadata collection systems for tracking pipeline health, lineage, and model ownership
• Define and enforce best practices, patterns, and conventions across data delivery and report delivery engineering teams
• Support evaluation and prototyping of AI-for-BI capabilities, including automated insight generation using large language models
• Research and evaluate emerging tools and technologies; present findings and recommendations to inform platform direction
• Participate in build-vs-buy assessments and contribute to tooling decisions that delivery engineering teams depend on
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify platform gaps, gather requirements, and deliver scalable solutions

Compensation and Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $79,800 - $136,100.
• 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 5% 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

• 1-2 years of experience (including internships, co-ops, or substantial academic/personal projects)
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Exposure to BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
• Exposure to large language models and their application to analytics workflows
• Experience with version control (Git) and branching strategies
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)

EEO Statement

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