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Job Summary:
PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, and they are seeking an Application Architect Sr. Manager to drive the end-to-end architecture for procurement solutions. This role involves providing technology leadership, managing application architecture strategy, and guiding a team to build digital products across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Define and drive the end-to-end architecture for procurement solutions, including Requisition-to-Pay (S2P), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and supplier management.
• Ensure alignment with business objectives, industry best practices, and emerging trends in procurement digitalization.
• Design scalable, modular, and API-driven solutions that integrate seamlessly with ERP, finance, and supply chain systems
• 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
• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and application (DPA) across S&T core priorities
• Ability to work with multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals
• 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.
• Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals.
• Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration
• Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
• Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture
• Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization
• Design and deliver Technical/Solution design documents having LLDs, Physical, logical architectures, sequence flow diagrams, Database schemas etc.
• Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines
• Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation
• Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
• 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:
Required:
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 14 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
• Strong experience in procurement processes, supplier management, contract lifecycle management, and spend analysis.
• Expertise in ERP integrations (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, Microsoft Dynamics) with procurement platforms.
• Deep understanding of procurement models, direct & indirect procurement, raw material sourcing, and supplier compliance.
• 7 years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks
• Full stack engineering experience
Preferred:
• Strong understanding of SAP ERP implementations, data schemas involved.
• Experience in Transport, warehouse and other supply chain management systems
• 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
Company:
PepsiCo is a food and beverage company. Founded in 1898, the company is headquartered in Purchase, New York, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company. PepsiCo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
