PepsiCo Looking for Associate Director, Solutions Architect at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Job Description

Purpose:
PepsiCo GBS function is institutionalizing a Digital Factory to optimize its processes, services and experiences. To start with, this Digital Factory will consist of an Automation Factory and a Reporting Factory and will jointly work with other stakeholders to rationalize, optimize, re-imagine and automate processes and reports across Sales, Operations/ Supply Chain, HR, and Marketing & Insights.

Technology Enablement team is established to support Digital Factory with Solution Architecture, setting up standards, security assessments, connecting with the relevant IT application teams, provisioning of standard platforms and other Release management activities.

This role will be part of the Technology Enablement team and would require to work in a fast-paced, digitally-focused environment alongside developers, designers, business and architects to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously. This role mainly focusses on

End to End solution architecture

Solution designs that are aligned with technology roadmaps

Solutions that are aligned with PepsiCo standards and guiding principles

Standardize architecture approach for acceleration and scalability

Accountabilities:
Clearly understand business use case, scope, and detailed functional and technical requirements

Build conceptual architecture designs and ensure feasibility in partnership with technical architects for a specific technology or application, that provides the basis for detailed logical and physical architecture designs.

Deliver End to End solution architecture including conceptual, logical, and physical that complies with IT standards & patterns to ensure scalability, reliability, and resiliency.

Partner with Enterprise Architects to address functional or technical gaps, potential conflicts with other projects or programs, and when exceptions are required to address those gaps.

Find opportunities to leverage existing patterns promoting reuse for Digital Factory use cases and partner with domain architects for new patterns.

Establish and maintain productive relationships with GBS teams, peers in the IT organization and CTO functions (Platform leads, Architects).

Coach and develop team members by driving accountability, ownership and PepsiCo IT’s cultural values

Qualifications/Requirements

Years of Exp:
Bachelor’s Degree in CIS, Business, Engineering, Network Communications Management, Telecommunications or similar background

10-12 years overall IT experience with 5-7 years experience in solution architecture and design

Mandatory Technical Skills:
Broad understanding of general IT technologies and trends, industry standards, solution architecture, and trends in related technologies.

Experience architecting, designing, and implementing within Agile delivery frameworks.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Exposure to varied technology landscape, Microsoft Power Platform, PowerBI, Automation, HyperAutomation, Cloud, Database, ETLS etc.

Mandatory Non-Technical Skills:
Experience with solution design and delivery from a range of vendors as well as bespoke development

Exposure and understanding of existing digital and emerging technologies (Cloud, data, and analytics, IOT, AI, etc.)

Understanding of integration technologies and patterns; data architecture and patterns

Systems thinking, understanding of relationships between various systems

Ability to demonstrate a mindset for the Conceptual, Logical, Physical levels of architecture and apply them effectively.

Thorough understanding of the architecture guiding principles / modern architecture and leverage them to design forward-looking solutions.

Differentiating Skills:
Architecting solutions for automation and reporting applications.

Relocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation

Job Type: Regular