dComm Solutions Design Architect

In this role you drive the technical blueprint for PepsiCos International Digital dCommerce platform, shaping data, BI, and product engineering architectures. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure coherent, scalable solutions that align with platform governance and long-term goals. You’ll lead architecture reviews, define reference architectures, and influence integration strategies across the wider PepsiCo ecosystem. This position offers the chance to build foundational capabilities for a scaling digital commerce business and to work at the intersection of data, applications, and AI for BI.

Compensaciones / Beneficios

• Hybrid work model
• entrepreneurial environment
• professional growth opportunities
• variety of benefits for wellbeing
• volunteering opportunities

Responsabilidades

• Lead architecture and design reviews across the dComm engineering organization to ensure alignment with standards and long-term goals
• Define and maintain reference architectures for dComm capabilities from data platform to user-facing applications
• Ensure architectural coherence across Data Engineering, BI Engineering, and Product Engineering
• Collaborate with Platform team to identify foundational investments and support future capabilities
• Lead evaluation and design of integration approaches with wider PepsiCo capabilities
• Partner with DTX Core Platform Team to represent dComm needs in platform decisions
• Navigate platform governance and advocate for international requirements to avoid blockers
• Advise on AI for BI evolution
• Guide application architecture decisions with Product Engineering Manager
• Review designs for non-functional requirements (performance, security, maintainability)
• Define and maintain architecture standards for API design, service boundaries, security, and deployment
• Create architecture documentation, decision records, and design artefacts
• Collaborate with Data Architect to ensure end-to-end coherence across data and application layers
• Represent dComm in enterprise architecture forums and governance processes
• Advise leadership on technical feasibility, risks, and architectural implications

• 6+ years as a solutions architect spanning data platforms and applications
• Experience navigating enterprise platform teams and governance
• Background in integration architecture across organizational boundaries
• Strong foundation in software architecture, API design, SOA and event-driven architectures
• Experience with modern data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow) and data-platform integration
• Strong expertise in containers and orchestration
• Ability to communicate architecture through diagrams and visuals
• Understanding of cloud cost optimization and balancing cost/performance/value
• Familiarity with Azure and AWS; infrastructure considerations
• Understanding of BI tools (Power BI) and their architectural limits
• Experience with or interest in Elixir (or similar functional languages)
• Knowledge of security, performance, and scalability patterns for enterprise apps
• Ability to influence Engineering Managers without direct authority
• Strong communication skills for technical and business audiences

• Comfort with a matrix environment across dComm, DTX Platform, and enterprise functions

• effective communicator
• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• architecture design
• API design
• SOA / event-driven architectures