Software Engineering Assoc Manager

$115,000 - $197,500/Yr

PepsiCo - Plano, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Plano, TX

10,001+ employees

Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Software Engineering Associate Manager at PepsiCo plays a crucial role in leading software development initiatives within the Digital Products and Services (DPS) team. This position is responsible for guiding a team of engineers to build and support digital solutions that enhance business processes, optimize efficiency, and drive cost savings. The role involves collaboration with various teams to develop user-centric digital products and ensure high-quality software delivery through a robust DevOps process.

Responsibilities

• Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities.
• Drive 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 utilizing industry standards.
• Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively.
• Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering.
• Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences.
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders.
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience.
• 3+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience on database design and complex SQL queries.
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• 6+ years of experience in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit, BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing, REST APIs, Spring Security.
• 2+ years of experience with Reactive Programming, GraphQL.
• 2+ years of experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Node.js, React / React Native FrontEnd frameworks.
• 5+ years of Experience with NoSQL and/or Relational databases (2 years of NoSQL experience is preferred).
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions.
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and Production deployment and processes.
• 4+ years of experience with Kafka.
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems.
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems.
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services.
• Deep knowledge and experience of design patterns.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Ability 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.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Dependent care reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan