Associate Director Application Architect

Job Description

Responsibilities 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 PepsiCos value chain. This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design andprovide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technicaldirection, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies. Role 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 Strategy 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 Businessgoals 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 theapplication architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions. Championand communicate the application architecture to the businessleaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of thearchitecture to objectives/drivers/goals. Architect Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in applicationdevelopment and integration Analyzethe current IT ecosystem application architecture to identifyweaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future applicationarchitecture Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development ofapplications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform isdeployed 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 acrossorganizational and functional lines Develop and maintainIT ecosystem application architecture models, processesand documentation Innovate Identifyemerging technologies that can enable the overall businessarchitecture 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 A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred Minimum of 14years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience Strong experience in procurement processes, Expertise in ERP integrations (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP) 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, andobject-orienteddesign Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#,Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl) Experience cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems Experience with high throughput cloudnative distributedsystems Experience implementing and consuminglarge-scaleweb services Deep knowledge of design patterns Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or otherfront-endframeworks Full stack engineering experience Preferred Qualifications: 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 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.