Solutions Design Architect

PepsiCo · Vitória

Overview

At PepsiCo International dCommerce team, we are building the next generation of innovative products and capabilities using emerging technologies to accelerate our business and gain back share. While tied closely to broader PepsiCo, the dCommerce group has a unique start-up feel and defined values that embrace a more entrepreneurial mindset.

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to guide the technical direction of our engineering organization as we scale. From evolving our data platform to transitioning to software, from BI tooling into a full application and AI for BI, you'll lead architecture and design reviews, define integration approaches with wider PepsiCo capabilities, and ensure we build coherently across Data Engineering, BI Engineering, and Product Engineering.

This is a role for someone who wants to build the blueprint, not just inherit one. You'll partner with Engineering Managers to make technology choices that balance innovation with pragmatism, navigate platform governance to unblock delivery, and ensure what we build today supports where we're heading. If you want to shape the technical future of a scaling digital commerce capability not just review other people's designs - this is that opportunity.

Responsibilities

Architecture and Design Oversight

Lead software architecture and design reviews across the International Digital cCmmerce engineering organization, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and long-term goals
Define and maintain reference architectures for dComm capabilities from data platform through to user-facing applications
Ensure architectural coherence across Data Engineering, BI Engineering, and Product Engineering
Participate in creating the the architectural runway in collaboration with Platform team by identifying foundational investments needed to support future capabilities

Platform and Integration Strategy

Lead evaluation and design of integration approaches with wider PepsiCo capabilities and platforms relevant for International
Partner with DTX Core Platform Team to ensure dComm needs are represented in platform decisions
Navigate platform governance, submit requests, advocate for international requirements, ensure dComm isn't blocked by platform constraints
Advise on AI for BI evolution

Technical Leadership

Partner with Product Engineering Manager on application architecture decisions: technology selection, system design, scalability approach
Provide architectural guidance on complex cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams
Review and challenge technical designs to ensure they meet non-functional requirements (performance, security, maintainability)

Standards and Governance

Define and maintain software architecture standards for dComm: API design, service boundaries, security patterns, deployment approaches
Ensure alignment with wider PepsiCo technology standards while advocating for dComm-specific needs
Create and maintain architecture documentation, decision records, and design artefacts
Guide Engineering Managers on architectural trade-offs and help them make informed decisions

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management

Serve as the primary architectural interface between dComm and DTX Core Platform Team
Collaborate with Data Architect to ensure end-to-end coherence across data and application layers
Represent dComm engineering in enterprise architecture forums and technology governance processes
Advise leadership on technical feasibility, risks, and architectural implications of strategic initiatives

Qualifications

6+ years of experience as a solutions architect spanning data platforms and applications
Experience navigating enterprise platform teams and governance processes
Background in integration architecture connecting capabilities across organizational boundaries
Strong software architecture foundation system design, API design, service-oriented and event-driven architectures
Experience with modern data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow) and how applications integrate with data platforms
Strong expertise in containerization technologies and container orchestration solutions
Ability to create and maintain architecture diagramas to effectively communicate system design/technical decisions
Understanding of cloud cost optimization, with the ability to balance cost, performance and business value in architectural decisions.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and infrastructure considerations
Understanding of BI tools (Power BI) and their architectural limitations
Experience with or strong interest in Elixir (or comparable functional languages for scalable applications)
Knowledge of security, performance, and scalability patterns for enterprise applications
Ability to guide and influence Engineering Managers without direct authority
Strong communication skills and can articulate architectural rationale to technical and business audiences
Comfortable operating in a matrix environment across dComm, DTX Platform, and enterprise functions

What makes us different?

Hybrid work model: combination of remote and collaborative office experience to enable innovation
Entrepreneurial environment in leading international company
Professional growth possibilities & learning opportunities
Variety of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
Volunteering opportunities to help external communities

About PepsiCo
We believe that culture should be at the cornerstone of everything we do at PepsiCo. We are agile, innovative and not afraid of failure. We want our team to come to work every day excited to explore new ways to bring enjoyment, refreshment and fun to the world.
PepsiCo Positive (pep+) is the future of our organization – a strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people.
So, if you’re ready to be a part of a playground for those who think big, we’d love to chat.

*We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability

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