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At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.

Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

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, ensuring scalability and reusability across regions for Global Digital Products.Responsabilities:

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support Technology Strategy and Enterprise products (TS&EP)Lead a team of Technical Product Owners and engineers to build Global Digital Products and evolve them according to business priorities and strategy.
• 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 and technical product owners.
• Develop and expand TS&EP 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 Define and manage effective and efficient processes across de SDLC that help the teams deliver timely high-quality solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s or PhD preferred).
• 15+ years of relevant software development and engineering management experience.4+ years of people management experience, with 2+ years managing multiple managers/teams.
• Strong background on manufacturing domain specifically in CPG industryDeep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and architectural patterns.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (Azure preferred).Metrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLCExperience with high-throughput, mission-critical, 24x7 cloud-native distributed systems.Strong problem-solving skills, ability to manage multiple projects, and a passion for building scalable software solutions.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.