Software Engineer & Application Architect Senior Principal Engineer

Overview

CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT

At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.

At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

Responsibilities

The Opportunity

Application Architecture is central to driving software development and long-term technology strategy across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. This role establishes a comprehensive end-to-end vision for application design and provides strong technical leadership, guiding teams on priorities, direction, and adoption of modern, reusable, and AI-enabled technologies. As a key enabler of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain, this leader fosters collaboration, promotes standardization and reuse, and ensures alignment between business strategy and technology execution.

This position is responsible for architecting and designing the logical and physical structures of digital products and applications, including defining technology stacks, reusable design patterns, and engineering standards. The role ensures systems are scalable, performant, cost-efficient, and observable by incorporating monitoring strategies for performance, availability, and system health, along with workflow design and optimization. Additionally, it involves evaluating and selecting tools and frameworks, guiding engineering teams on consistent implementation, mitigating technical risks, and optimizing solutions through build-time and run-time cost analysis.

Your Impact

As SWE & App Arch Sr Principal Engineer your scope would consist of … 

Strategy

• Define and drive the application architecture vision aligned to business goals and S&T priorities
• Lead, build, and mentor high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams
• Engage senior executives and stakeholders to shape and communicate the software engineering narrative and architectural direction
• Establish and govern enterprise architecture standards, principles, and processes to ensure consistency, scalability, and reuse across solutions
• Champion a culture of reuse and standardization to accelerate delivery and reduce redundancy
• Translate business strategies into architectural implications, identifying risks and ensuring alignment to objectives
• Proactively manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution

Architecture

• Define and enforce development standards, design guidelines, and integration patterns, emphasizing modularity and reuse
• Assess the current application landscape, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement opportunities
• Design and evolve target-state architecture, including transition roadmaps from current to future state
• Lead the design of conceptual and detailed logical and physical architectures, including workflow orchestration and sequencing of system interactions
• Define and implement monitoring and observability strategies to ensure system performance, availability, reliability, and health
• Lead the design of enterprise applications to ensure scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Perform build-time and run-time cost analysis to optimize infrastructure, application performance, and total cost of ownership
• Enable seamless integration across systems, functions, and platforms
• Maintain architecture artifacts, models, and documentation to support transparency, reuse, and governance

Innovation

• Evaluate and promote emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, to enhance engineering productivity and business outcomes
• Drive the adoption and responsible use of AI tools across the software development lifecycle
• Lead and support development of proofs of concept and prototypes to validate new ideas
• Partner across teams to build and evolve reference architectures, leveraging best practices and modern frameworks
• Continuously assess industry trends and frameworks to future-proof the technology landscape
• Promote innovative approaches that balance speed, quality, cost efficiency, and reuse across solutions

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
• Experience defining and driving enterprise application architecture strategy and governance
• 7+ years of experience architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems
• Experience with high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems
• Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and cloud-native PaaS/SaaS solutions
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and reliability practices for large-scale systems
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and build/run-time cost analysis (FinOps)
• Experience building reusable platforms, shared services, or reference architectures
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Full-stack engineering experience
• Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools and modern engineering practices
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React/Redux or similar front-end frameworks
• Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C/C++ (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us: 

• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs. 
• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning. 
• Development programs according to Leadership skills. 
• Specialized training according to the role. 
• Learning experiences with internal and external providers. 
• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others. 
• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life. 
• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.