Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

We are PepsiCo

PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies with more than $79 Billion in Net Revenue and a global portfolio of diverse and beloved brands. We have a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes 22 brands that each generate more than $1 Billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo's strength is its people. We are over 250,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, located around the world, and united by a shared set of values and goals.

Platform & Solution Engineering at PepsiCo

The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo’s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. The Platform & 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 & 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.

Responsibilities

Manager of Software Engineering 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 deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations.

The leader in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities.

Role Responsibilities :

• Support the vision and guide a team of engineers in developing and maintaining Platform & Solution Engineering aligned with core priorities in Strategy & Transformation.
• Oversee the comprehensive development of integration services for the Integration platform utilizing Java and Python on Azure.
• Design scalable, performant, and secure systems ensuring maintainability and quality.
• Establish code standards and best practices; conduct code reviews and technical audits.
• Advise on the selection of tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Research emerging technologies and provide recommendations for their adoption.
• Uphold high standards of Integration services and performance across platforms.
• Foster partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio.
• Develop software development strategy adhering to industry standards. Create a roadmap and schedule for implementation based on business requirements and strategy.
• Demonstrate familiarity with AI tools and platforms such as OpenAI (GPT-3 / 4, Assistants API), Anthropic, or similar LLM providers.
• Integrate AI capabilities into applications, including AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, and content generators.
• Understand prompt engineering, context handling, and AI output refinement.
• Lead multi-disciplinary, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Engage with executives throughout the company to advocate the narrative surrounding software engineering.
• Expand Platform & Solution Engineering capabilities through a customer-focused, services-driven digital solutions platform leveraging data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences.
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated with engineering initiatives to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business.

Compensation and Benefits :

Qualifications

Qualities

EEO Statement

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