DevSecOps Leader

Description du poste:

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

The Opportunity

The DevSecOps Lead is accountable for the end to end delivery and quality of the local and legacy digital product portfolio for CariCam. This role leads and governs development activities across internal teams and external vendors, ensuring that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and production ready, while meeting business timelines, budget commitments, and SAFe delivery standards.
The role acts as a technical and delivery authority, providing oversight, feedback, and coaching across solution design, development, testing, training, and deployment to production, while ensuring full adherence to PepsiCo IT methodologies, security standards, and architectural guidelines.

Your Impact

* Lead the development and sustain portfolio for local and legacy digital products, ensuring business continuity and value realization
* Govern delivery execution under the SAFe Agile methodology, ensuring alignment to PI planning, sprint execution, and release management
* Ensure delivery commitments on scope, quality, timeline, and budget, proactively identifying and mitigating risks
* Review and approve solution architecture, technical design, and implementation approaches for local digital products.
* Provide hands on oversight of code quality, testing strategies, release readiness, and production stability.
* Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, DevSecOps standards, and secure SDLC practices.
* Enforce security by design and DevSecOps principles across the full software lifecycle.
* Ensure adherence to PepsiCo security policies, audit requirements, and vulnerability management standards
* Partner with Security, Architecture, and Platform teams to remediate risks and technical debt in legacy solutions.
* Lead and govern external development vendors and system integrators, ensuring contractual, quality, and delivery expectations are met.
* Provide structured feedback, technical guidance, and performance oversight to development partners.
* Act as a key technology partner to business stakeholders, translating business needs into robust technical outcomes.
* Oversee training, change readiness, and cutover activities to ensure smooth transition to production and sustain teams.
* Ensure operational documentation, support models, and SLAs are in place prior to go live.
* Drive continuous improvement in operational stability, resilience, and cost efficiency of legacy platforms.
* Design Value Delivery and Product Roadmap for OUs local/legacy solutions including roadmap definition, incremental value objectives and realization milestones
* Partner with IT Leads and IT functions to build and generate solution proposals and resource estimates in order to deliver incremental value to the business
* Consistent and ongoing engagement with business and SnT capabilities teams to support the appropriate development of stories, discuss implementation tradeoffs and prioritize backlog to ensure acceptance criteria
* Ongoing communication and coordination with stakeholders around incremental value delivery, supporting feedback loops and roadmap iteration
* Find efficiencies and optimize investment by finding creative ways to deliver on identified value sooner than projected and partnering to bundle individual investments into efficient products and programs to optimize spend and reduce investment overhead
* Drive Risk, Issue and Change management agenda for developing projects
Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?

* Strong experience (5+ years) leading software development and implementation projects, including legacy and locally built solutions
* Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD concepts, secure SDLC, and release governance
* Hands on experience reviewing architecture, code quality, testing strategies, and production readiness
* Strong management skills with the ability to develop teams and cultivate talent
* Experience in CPG industry required with strong commercial and operations process knowledge
* Proven experience working under SAFe / Agile delivery models

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

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.

The Opportunity

The DevSecOps Lead is accountable for the end to end delivery and quality of the local and legacy digital product portfolio for CariCam. This role leads and governs development activities across internal teams and external vendors, ensuring that solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and production ready, while meeting business timelines, budget commitments, and SAFe delivery standards.
The role acts as a technical and delivery authority, providing oversight, feedback, and coaching across solution design, development, testing, training, and deployment to production, while ensuring full adherence to PepsiCo IT methodologies, security standards, and architectural guidelines.

Your Impact

* Lead the development and sustain portfolio for local and legacy digital products, ensuring business continuity and value realization
* Govern delivery execution under the SAFe Agile methodology, ensuring alignment to PI planning, sprint execution, and release management
* Ensure delivery commitments on scope, quality, timeline, and budget, proactively identifying and mitigating risks
* Review and approve solution architecture, technical design, and implementation approaches for local digital products.
* Provide hands on oversight of code quality, testing strategies, release readiness, and production stability.
* Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, DevSecOps standards, and secure SDLC practices.
* Enforce security by design and DevSecOps principles across the full software lifecycle.
* Ensure adherence to PepsiCo security policies, audit requirements, and vulnerability management standards
* Partner with Security, Architecture, and Platform teams to remediate risks and technical debt in legacy solutions.
* Lead and govern external development vendors and system integrators, ensuring contractual, quality, and delivery expectations are met.
* Provide structured feedback, technical guidance, and performance oversight to development partners.
* Act as a key technology partner to business stakeholders, translating business needs into robust technical outcomes.
* Oversee training, change readiness, and cutover activities to ensure smooth transition to production and sustain teams.
* Ensure operational documentation, support models, and SLAs are in place prior to go live.
* Drive continuous improvement in operational stability, resilience, and cost efficiency of legacy platforms.
* Design Value Delivery and Product Roadmap for OUs local/legacy solutions including roadmap definition, incremental value objectives and realization milestones
* Partner with IT Leads and IT functions to build and generate solution proposals and resource estimates in order to deliver incremental value to the business
* Consistent and ongoing engagement with business and SnT capabilities teams to support the appropriate development of stories, discuss implementation tradeoffs and prioritize backlog to ensure acceptance criteria
* Ongoing communication and coordination with stakeholders around incremental value delivery, supporting feedback loops and roadmap iteration
* Find efficiencies and optimize investment by finding creative ways to deliver on identified value sooner than projected and partnering to bundle individual investments into efficient products and programs to optimize spend and reduce investment overhead
* Drive Risk, Issue and Change management agenda for developing projects

Profil requis du candidat:

Who Are We Looking For?

* Strong experience (5+ years) leading software development and implementation projects, including legacy and locally built solutions
* Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD concepts, secure SDLC, and release governance
* Hands on experience reviewing architecture, code quality, testing strategies, and production readiness
* Strong management skills with the ability to develop teams and cultivate talent
* Experience in CPG industry required with strong commercial and operations process knowledge
* Proven experience working under SAFe / Agile delivery models

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

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