Overview 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 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 Qualifications A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Master’s in Computer Science or Engineering preferred Minimum of 12 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience 5+ years of experience architecting fault tore, high scale distributed system Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design Working knowledge of programming languages beyond Java (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