Software Engineering Manager

Overview

The Manager 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 operationsThe leader in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities

Responsibilities

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and applications (DPA) 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 various peers across the company to build consensus for solution
• 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

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $106,400 - $178,100
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (preferred)
• Minimum 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• Minimum 6 years working on scalable distributed systems
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Python, with experience in additional programming languages
• Experience in building APIs and microservices
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like React.js is a plus
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, and cloud-specific PaaS/SaaS solutions
• Experience with high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Strong knowledge of multi-tier and service-oriented architecture, event-driven/messaging solutions, HTTP protocols, and REST APIs
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Prior experience in CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) in Supply Chain domain is a plus
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams

Soft skills

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
• Ability to lead development team as sr. software engineers in an Agile project
• Ability to work in collaborative environment with diverse team and co-workers
• Proactively identifies future gap in solution, looks for constructive solutions and build alignment to in solving with constructive partnership with EA, SME’s, product owner and scrum leads
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
• Ability to be able to i