Architect, Ngaa Platform Admin

Overview:
Bring your passion and talent to our stage and continue to share our future and deliver innovative products to our consumers. When your commitment to serve meets our Performance with Purpose agenda, we can leave a lasting positive impact on society and the environment. Step up to the biggest challenge of your career and realize your potential when your determination meets our dynamic culture. Our job is to power PepsiCo with the best talent and technology solutions in the world. We shape, create, and deliver world class technology capabilities & solutions to accelerate PepsiCo’s global growth across all functions.

**Responsibilities**:
As a part of Chief Technology Office (CTO) organization, the global Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform (EDAP) team builds and operates state-of-the art advanced analytics platform to enable PepsiCo’s global analytics growth. This position is a key role on our global Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform (EDAP) team partnering with the PepsiCo Global Template (PGT) team. The PepsiCo Global Template (PGT) is a 5-year program being developed using next generation SAP S/4 HANA solution. In partnership with SAP, IBM, and PwC, it is a significant investment in the development and deployment of next generation ERP capabilities and is grounded in standardizing business processes based on industry standards and best practices.

Qualifications:
**Years of Experience**
- 3-5 years leading a team of Azure PaaS cloud architects and cloud provisioning engineers for Azure cloud resources like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Log Analytics, Azure ML Ops, Azure Synapse, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Server etc.
- Understanding of SAP solutions on Azure - SAP S/4Hana, SAP BW/4Hana, SAP Business Suite etc.
- 1-2 years’ experience in leveraging SAP tools for ETL between SAP and Azure cloud.

**Mandatory Technical Skills**

In this role, you will be working as a part of team to strengthen the global Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform by
- Managing daily administration tasks, including system provisioning, performance monitoring, access management, and version upgrades for Azure PaaS cloud resources like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Log Analytics, Azure ML Ops, Azure Synapse, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Server etc.
- Serving as a technology SME for Advanced Analytics data engineers - supporting data ingestion and transformation technologies and implement performance tuning strategies.
- Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework / Digital Product Management environment and possessing solid project

management skills.
- Self-motivated - this person will be trusted to be able to work with mínimal supervision on a day-to-day basis.
- Solutions Delivery experience - knowledge of system development lifecycle, integration, and sustainability
- Knowledge of Presto / Denodo / Infoworks is desirable

**Mandatory Non-Technical Skills**
- Excellent remote collaboration skills
- Experience working in a matrix organization with diverse priorities
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills along with collaboration and listening skills
- Ability to work with agile delivery methodologies
- Ability to ideate requirements & design iteratively with business partners without formal requirements documentation

**Differentiating Competencies**
- Ability to work with virtual teams (remote work locations);
- Contribute to technical discussions
- Strong communication skills to meet with delivery teams and business-facing teams, understand sometimes ambiguous, needs, and translate to clear, aligned requirements