PepsiCo · 9 hours ago
Application Architect Sr. Manager
Plano, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$119K/yr - $199K/yr
14+ years expPepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, and they are seeking an Application Architect Sr. Manager to drive their digital transformation initiatives. This role involves defining and driving the end-to-end architecture for procurement solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and leading a team of engineers to build scalable digital products.
Brand MarketingFast-Moving Consumer GoodsFood and BeverageManufacturing
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
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 Business goals
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 the application architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions
Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals
Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration
Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture
Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed 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 across organizational and functional lines
Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation
Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
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
Qualification
Required
A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Minimum of 14 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience
Strong experience in procurement processes, supplier management, contract lifecycle management, and spend analysis
Expertise in ERP integrations (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, Microsoft Dynamics) 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, and object-oriented design
Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl)
Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
Deep knowledge of design patterns
Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux or other front-end frameworks
Full stack engineering experience
Preferred
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
Benefits
Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% 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.
Company
PepsiCo
PepsiCo is a food and beverage company.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.National Safety Council
2025-09-02Post Ipo Equity· $4B
2024-06-13Grant· $0.02M
2017-12-20IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Carreteiro
CEO PepsiCo Brazil & South Cone (Chile, Arg, Uru, Par) Foods
Mohamed Shelbaya
CEO PepsiCo Middle East & Africa
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