Overview The Application Tech Lead of Software Engineering will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain. This leader will deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations. The leader in this role will provide technical oversight and design our software to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, Technical Architecture and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities. Responsibilities Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and Applications (DPA) across S&T core priorities Define and drive the overall design, solution for mobile apps built with React Native. Design scalable, performant, and secure systems while ensuring maintainability and quality. Set code standards and best practices, lead code reviews and technical audits. Guide the selection of tools, libraries, and frameworks. Research emerging technologies and make recommendations for adoption. Ensure high standards of mobile UX and performance across platforms (iOS/Android). Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create deployment / implementation of solution roadmap based on business requirements and strategy. Familiarity with AI tools and platforms, such as: OpenAI (GPT-3/4, Assistants API), Anthropic, or similar LLM providers. Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators. Understanding of prompt engineering, context handling, and AI output refinement. Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers. Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering Develop and expand DPA capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences Qualifications A Bachelor’s / Master Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field Minimum of 5 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience 4+ years of experience on working on fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems. 2+ years’ experience managing people 4+ years of Hands on experience with developing Mobile Applications using React Native or similar mobile App frameworks 4+ yrs of working knowledge of Database like RDBMS (*Oracle / MSSQL/ MYSQL) , NoSQL ( PostgreSQL, Couchbase) Working knowledge of Salesforce ecosystem prefer Sales Cloud and CRM solution. Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services. 4+ yrs of experience in working in Agile projects, with strong understanding in running Agile ceremony, and CI/CD process for a team. Strong working knowledge multi-tier and service-oriented architecture design solution. Good working knowledge of event driven / messaging solutions, HTTP protocol and REST API’s. Drive Best Practices of Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Architecture Reviews Metrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLC Experience in CPG company would be plus , with DSD process knowledge. Good working knowledge of cloud offering and usage, experience with Azure (preferred). Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems, with high throughput SaaS or cloud native systems. Good working knowledge of event driven / messaging solutions, HTTP protocol and REST API’s, and Basic Authentication (Single Sign on).