Data Eng Principal Engineer
Core
Lead data engineering team to build, operate, and scale data pipelines and lakehouse architectures for PepsiCo's flagship data products in revenue management, supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics.
Role type
Principal Data Engineering Lead (Team Lead & Architect)
Builds
Unified data models, scalable data pipelines, and AI-enabled automation frameworks for business-critical applications.
Domain
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) / Supply Chain / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Team leadership, Data Lakehouse architecture, Data Warehousing, Data modeling (CA Erwin), Python, PySpark, Scala, Big Data platforms (Databricks), Cloud data engineering (Azure/AWS), Azure services, Test-driven development, Observability, SLA management.
Preferred skills
Azure Data Engineering certification, Business Intelligence tools (Power BI/Tableau), CPG industry domain knowledge, Supply chain/GTM background.
Technologies
Azure, AWS, Databricks, PySpark, Scala, Python, CA Erwin, Power BI, Tableau
Responsibilities
Manage and empower a team of data engineers and analysts; Design and structure unified data models; Scale data pipelines from internal/external sources; Create AI-enabled accelerators for incident resolution; Build automation and monitoring frameworks for pipeline quality and cost; Collaborate with product teams and data science teams; Evolve data platform architecture; Define and manage SLAs for production data products.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with team leadership