AI Solutions Architect

PepsiCo • Plano, TX

6h • Onsite

About The Position

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 global community that values your ideas and empowers you to make an impact, on your career and on the world around you.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data/AI, or related field.
• 9+ years in solution architecture with consumer/commercial digital platform exposure.
• Proven experience producing solution architectures for enterprise initiatives, including HLD/LLD, architecture diagrams, interface specifications, and NFRs.
• Strong integration architecture experience across APIs, event-driven patterns, data products, and customer platform ecosystems.
• Practical understanding of agentic AI architecture: tool/action execution, orchestration, memory/state, retrieval/grounding, evaluation/quality, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Experience designing for security, privacy, and compliance in customer-facing contexts: IAM/RBAC, data classification/PII, consent considerations, auditability, and explicit trust boundary enforcement.
• Experience with production readiness: observability (logs/metrics/traces), resilience (timeouts/retries/idempotency), runbooks, and controlled rollout/rollback patterns.
• Strong understanding of consumer/commercial journeys and systems (at least 3–4): marketing workflows, sales processes, commerce checkout/order flows, customer identity, B2B portals, or D2C experiences.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
• Ability to drive adoption through clear documentation, reference implementations, and enablement of engineers and architects across teams.
• Experience and working knowledge with Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., Langchain, CrewAi, MCP, A2A) and deployment of AI solutions on cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Strong understanding and experience in designing AI agents and integrating advancements in AI/ML technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Strong stakeholder influence and ability to drive alignment across product, engineering, data, and security teams.
• Ability to simplify complex systems into clear architectures and guide teams toward reusable patterns.
• Bias for measurable outcomes: reliability, adoption, cost, and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Produce end-to-end solution architecture artifacts (HLD/LLD, C4 context/container, sequence diagrams) for consumer/commercial agentic use cases and enabling services.
• Define integration patterns with customer-facing platforms (CRM, commerce, marketing tech, customer data platforms), API ecosystems, and data platforms.
• Review agentic solution designs for compliance with platform patterns, security guardrails, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Document ADRs for key design choices, exceptions, and trade-offs; drive remediation actions for non-compliant designs.
• Define and validate NFRs: availability, latency, throughput, resilience, auditability, security, privacy, and cost controls.
• Ensure observability and operational readiness are designed-in (logging, tracing, metrics, evals, runbooks, rollback patterns).
• Partner with product owners, engineering teams, data teams, platform teams, and vendors to deliver aligned architecture and unblock dependencies.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and design sign-offs across cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior