Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Overview

The Senior 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 cornerstone 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 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 Tech Strategy and Enterprise Product 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 executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Develop and expand Tech Strategy and Enterprise Product 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 $118,700 - $198,800
• 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 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 10+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• 8+ years of experience in mobile development, with at least 4 years in a leadership/managerial role
• Strong expertise in React Native, along with native iOS and Android development experience
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in an agile/scrum environment
• Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality consumer or enterprise apps at scale
• Solid understanding of mobile app architecture, performance tuning, and security best practices
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• 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.
• 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 Salesforce CG cloud preferred
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Full stack engineering experience
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to align technical execution with business goals

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

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