Overview CAREERS TO SMILE ABOUT At PepsiCo, you’ll discover a place where our mission is to create smiles around the world. With a portfolio of more than 500 beloved brands including, Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker, our work touches millions of people every day.
At the heart of the company is a team of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers who collaborate to innovate and turn ideas into action. Driven by innovation and a focus on creating joyful moments through food and drinks, our decisions are guided by consumer centricity, creating opportunities for our associates to do meaningful work and make a lasting impact in the communities we serve.
Whatever your role, you’ll be part of a general community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.
Responsibilities The Opportunity
Application Architecture is central to driving software development and long-term technology strategy across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T;) organization. This role establishes a comprehensive end-to-end vision for application design and provides strong technical leadership, guiding teams on priorities, direction, and adoption of modern, reusable, and AI-enabled technologies. As a key enabler of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain, this leader fosters collaboration, promotes standardization and reuse, and ensures alignment between business strategy and technology execution.
This position is responsible for architecting and designing the logical and physical structures of digital products and applications, including defining technology stacks, reusable design patterns, and engineering standards. The role ensures systems are scalable, performant, cost-efficient, and observable by incorporating monitoring strategies for performance, availability, and system health, along with workflow design and optimization. Additionally, it involves evaluating and selecting tools and frameworks, guiding engineering teams on consistent implementation, mitigating technical risks, and optimizing solutions through build-time and run-time cost analysis.
Your Impact
As SWE & App Arch Sr Principal Engineer your scope would consist of …
Strategy Define and drive the application architecture vision aligned to business goals and S&T; priorities
Lead, build, and mentor high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams
Engage senior executives and stakeholders to shape and communicate the software engineering narrative and architectural direction
Establish and govern enterprise architecture standards, principles,



and processes to ensure consistency, scalability, and reuse across solutions
Champion a culture of reuse and standardization to accelerate delivery and reduce redundancy
Translate business strategies into architectural implications, identifying risks and ensuring alignment to objectives
Proactively manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
Architecture Define and enforce development standards, design guidelines, and integration patterns, emphasizing modularity and reuse
Assess the current application landscape, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement opportunities
Design and evolve target-state architecture, including transition roadmaps from current to future state
Lead the design of conceptual and detailed logical and physical architectures, including workflow orchestration and sequencing of system interactions
Define and implement monitoring and observability strategies to ensure system performance, availability, reliability, and health
Lead the design of enterprise applications to ensure scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
Perform build-time and run-time cost analysis to optimize infrastructure, application performance, and total cost of ownership
Enable seamless integration across systems, functions, and platforms
Maintain architecture artifacts, models, and documentation to support transparency, reuse, and governance
Innovation Evaluate and promote emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, to enhance engineering productivity and business outcomes
Drive the adoption and responsible use of AI tools across the software development lifecycle
Lead and support development of proofs of concept and prototypes to validate new ideas
Partner across teams to build and evolve reference architectures, leveraging best practices and modern frameworks
Continuously assess industry trends and frameworks to future-proof the technology landscape
Promote innovative approaches that balance speed, quality, cost efficiency, and reuse across solutions
Qualifications Who Are We Looking For?
Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience




Experience defining and driving enterprise application architecture strategy and governance
7+ years of experience architecting fault-tolerant, high-scale distributed systems
Experience with high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems
Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems
Experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and cloud-native PaaS/SaaS solutions
Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and reliability practices for large-scale systems
Experience with cloud cost optimization and build/run-time cost analysis (FinOps)
Experience building reusable platforms, shared services, or reference architectures
Deep knowledge of design patterns
Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
Full-stack engineering experience
Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools and modern engineering practices
Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React/Redux or similar front-end frameworks
Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C/C++ (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred)
What can you expect from us:
Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.
Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.
Development programs according to Leadership skills.
Specialized training according to the role.
Learning experiences with internal and external providers.
We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.
Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.
A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.

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📌 SWE & App Arch Sr Principal Engineer (Ciudad de México)
🏢 PEPSICO
📍 Ciudad de México