Technical Data Delivery Lead Manager - Plano, Texas

PepsiCo operates in an environment undergoing immense and rapid change.  Big-data and digital technologies are driving business transformation that is unlocking new capabilities and business innovations in areas like eCommerce, mobile experiences and IoT.  The key to winning in these areas is being able to leverage enterprise data foundations built on PepsiCo’s global business scale to enable business insights, advanced analytics and new product development.  PepsiCo’s Data Management and Operations team is tasked with the responsibility of developing quality data collection processes, maintaining the integrity of our data foundations and enabling business leaders and data scientists across the company to have rapid access to the data they need for decision-making and innovation.

What PepsiCo Data Management and Operations does:

• Maintain a predictable, transparent, global operating rhythm that ensures always-on access to high-quality data for stakeholders across the company
• Responsible for day-to-day data collection, transportation, maintenance/curation and access to the PepsiCo corporate data asset
• Work cross-functionally across the enterprise to centralize data and standardize it for use by business, data science or other stakeholders
• Increase awareness about available data and democratize access to it across the company

Job Description

 As a Data Architect, you will be the key technical expert overseeing PepsiCo's data product build & operations and drive a strong vision for how data engineering can proactively create a positive impact on the business. As a member of the data engineering team, you will help lead the development of very large and complex data applications into public cloud environments directly impacting the design, architecture, and implementation of PepsiCo's flagship data products around topics like revenue management, supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics.  

The primary responsibilities of this role are to work with business users, data product owners, platform owners, enterprise architects, data management owners, and data engineering teams to ensure the data supply chain and the enterprise data products are built with high performance, high availability, and maintainability standards using current and emerging big data technologies.  You'll be working in a hybrid environment with in-house, on-premise data sources as well as cloud and remote systems. You will establish data design patterns that will drive flexible, scalable, and efficient data models to maximize value and reuse. You’ll make tactical architecture decisions to support immediate projects but will be a key expert informing long term data architecture strategy.

List in priority order the main accountabilities/deliverables of the role. These should be statements of the primary responsibilities of the incumbent.  At the end of each statement, identify whether the role is accountable for making decisions, being informed, providing consultation, or executing actions relative to the accountability as given below: Provide 5-10 accountability statements in this section. Also note other relevant jobs or groups that are impacted by the accountability.

• Program lead across a multiple, cross-functional programs from initial conception, through design and development, to delivery of tested, useable prototypes 
• Work across cross-functional partners (engineering, business, and design) to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across programs 
• Proactively identify technical, procedural, legal, logistical, and communications challenges and partner with leads to drive creative solutions to resolve issues and mitigate risks 
• Coordinate communications across internal and external teams, including upwards communication to team leadership 
• Frequent communication with senior leadership to shape and deliver on the product roadmap, and requires to nimbly switch between strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical, and business goals
• Drive data modeling, middleware, database and development of data mining systems 
• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective 
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases 
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from the uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional) 
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance 
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices 
• Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction 
• Assist the scrum and development teams in self-organization 
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments 
• Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework 
• Resolve conflicts and issues that occur
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity 

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $125,000 - $217,500 based on a full-time schedule
• Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 12% 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.

• 10+ years of overall technology experience that includes at least 5+ years of hands-on software development, data engineering, and systems architecture.
• 7+ years of experience with Data Lake Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, and Data Analytics tools.
• 7+ years of experience developing enterprise data models.
• 5+ years of experience in at least one of data modeling tool (ER/Studio, Erwin).
• 7+ years in cloud data engineering experience in at least one cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines.
• 7+ years of experience in developing programs for high volume ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark, Hadoop.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience on-premises to cloud migrations, adept in planning, execution, and optimization of end-to-end data migration projects
• Experience with integration of multi cloud services with on-premises technologies.
• Experience with building solutions in the retail or in the supply chain space is a must.
• Experience with data profiling and data quality tools like Apache Griffin, Deequ, and Great Expectations.
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.
• Experience with at least one or more MPP database technology such as Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery or SnowFlake.
• Experience with running and scaling applications on the cloud infrastructure and containerized services like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with version control systems like Azure DevOps, and deployment & CI tools.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Azure Machine learning is a plus.
• Experience in building API services and API gateway implementation to internal and external consumers
• Certified in Data engineering/Analytics in one or more clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.
• Experience in infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with building Data Observability systems
• Proficient in designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure code for efficient and scalable deployment of resources.
• Experience in fine tuning the jobs in cost and time optimization.
• Experience in estimating the cloud costs for the design and suggest optimal architecture design.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, and data glossaries.
• Working knowledge of agile development, including DevOps and DataOps concepts.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools and wireframe design (such as PowerBI/Tableau).
• BA/BS in Computer Science. 

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior level management.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, hiring and scaling data teams.
• Strong change manager. Comfortable with change, especially that which arises through company growth.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into data and technical requirements.
• High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment.
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs.
• Foster a team culture of accountability, communication, and self-management.
• Proactively drives impact and engagement while bringing others along.
• Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals
• Ability to lead others without direct authority in a matrixed environment 

Education

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math.

Competencies

• Highly influential and having the ability to educate challenging stakeholders on the role of data and its purpose in the business.
• Understands both the engineering and business side of the Data Products released. 
• Places the user in the center of decision making. 
• Teams up and collaborates for speed, agility, and innovation. 
• Experience with and embraces agile methodologies. 
• Strong negotiation and decision-making skill.
• Experience managing and working with globally distributed team

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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