Principal SW Engineer

The Application Architect/ Tech Lead of Software Engineering 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 corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain. This leader will deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations.

The leader in this role will be highly experienced and hands-on Principal Architect – React Native to lead the design and development of our mobile platform. This role is critical in shaping our mobile strategy, establishing architectural best practices, and mentoring a world-class engineering team. This role will play a key leadership role in a product-focused, high-growth startup/enterprise environment, owning the mobile application architecture from end to end.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and Applications (DPA) across S&T core priorities
• Define and drive the overall architecture for mobile apps built with React Native.
• Design scalable, performant, and secure systems while ensuring maintainability and quality.
• Set code standards and best practices; lead code reviews and technical audits.
• Guide the selection of tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Research emerging technologies and make recommendations for adoption.
• Ensure high standards of mobile UX and performance across platforms (iOS/Android).
• 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.
• Familiarity with AI tools and platforms, such as: OpenAI (GPT-3/4, Assistants API), Anthropic, or similar LLM providers.
• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context handling, and AI output refinement.
• 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 DPA 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

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor’s / Master Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 8+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• 6+ yrs of working knowledge of Database like RDBMS (*Oracle / MSSQL/ MYSQL) , NoSQL ( PostgreSQL, Couchbase)
• 4+ years of Hands on experience with developing Mobile Applications using React Native
• Deep understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Redux, Clean Architecture).
• Proven experience integrating native modules (iOS/Android) with React Native.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern front-end best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using ADO, app store deployment processes, and analytics.
• Experience with performance optimization and debugging tools.
• Prior experience leading architecture for complex mobile applications.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce ecosystem prefer Sales Cloud and CRM solution.
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services.
• Strong working knowledge multi-tier and service-oriented architecture design solution.
• Good working knowledge of event driven / messaging solutions, HTTP protocol and REST API’s.
• Experience in CPG company would be plus , with DSD process knowledge.
• Good working knowledge of cloud offering and usage, experience with Azure (preferred).
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems, with high throughput SaaS or cloud native systems.
• Good working knowledge of event driven / messaging solutions, HTTP protocol and REST API’s, and Basic Authentication (Single Sign on).