Junior Analytics Platform Engineer

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; 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

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.