Architect-Advanced Visualization Development Lead

Job Description

• This role will be responsible to deliver a portfolio of business intelligence, with both large global programs and several small ones. It requires high business facing interaction, doing executive messaging which requires strong negotiation within a dynamic business environment.
• It also requires the ability to pull together a team of resources to develop business intelligence solutions on these programs. This will necessitate the establishment of technical and project leadership with new cloud skilled developers.
• These initiatives will utilize an Agile process, aligning with the latest SAFe Agile principles while guiding the team through complex solution development of analytics using dev-ops on a full-stack talent blend.
• This role will need to partner with strategic project teams and requires proven abilities to deliver through others with a positive leadership style that supports strong collaboration and team work.

Accountabilities:

• This role is accountable to develop strategic solutions within the Business Intelligence space. New areas of focus may source projects from:
• 1. eCommerce 2. Chief Data Office-sponsored analytics programs 3. Global Insights 4. RD analytics 5. Global Operations 6. Sustainability 7. HR
• For the longer-term, this role will continue to drive additional solutions with an emphasis on integrating advanced analytics data science ML AI capabilities in visualizations. This role will be well positioned to leverage and scale these solutions to other markets and sectors if needed.
• With each of the targeted initiatives, this role is required to build a team, identify leaders, establish a development process and support the team to successfully develop while generating business messaging to bring them along the journey. This role will need to embrace the SAFe Agile delivery model and DevOps leveraging a highly technical team with experience on cloud-based analytics development.

This role will support the following activities :

• Accountable to build teams that can execute complex Business Intelligence solutions
• Establish a development process that aligns with PEP s goals (SAFe Agile), support the process with appropriate guidance and structure
• Support strategic integration into Global programs
• Deliver strong business partnerships and communications with the team, business and extended IT teams
• This requires this role to build significant PepsiCo business knowledge, many soft skills as well has a keen understanding of the new cloud capabilities:
• Solid business understanding of CPG and PepsiCo with a quick acumen for new subject areas
• Simplify communications of visualization components to a broader IT and business audience
• Lean into the design of visualization solutions and ensure estimate costing is accurate
• Generate business report-outs with meaningful insights (PPT)
• Simplify complex analytical solutions within a broader IT project program for the business as well as extended IT team members
• Accountable to lead the requirements gathering, business discussions, design, develop and execution visualization solutions
• Expected to lead multiple large initiatives per year with high complexities annually while enabling the business a high ROI when using the insights
• Expand the use of visualization technologies primarily. Microsoft PowerBI (dashboards, natural language query, automated insight generation).
• Other technologies will include Tellius (Insight exploration), Automated Insights (other Natural Language Generation solutions), Tableau (alternate BI platform), visual development with R-Shiny, React.js.
• Continual improvement of all solutions to position for lift and shift opportunities.

QualificationsRequirements

• Years of Experience:
• 11+ years of analytics experience
• 5+ years leading teams to delivery commercialized analytic solutions, not just stand alone

Mandatory technical skills:

• Highly analytical, motivated, decisive thought leader with solid critical thinking able to quickly connect technical and business dots
• Deep knowledge of business intelligence solutions, technical architecture design, able to recommend modes of development -
• Preference of experience in PowerBI and Tableau
• Business Objects experience familiarity
• Scaled Agile Framework experience desired (agile development experience at a minimum)
• DevSecOps experience a big plus (development security operations)
• Experience designing approaches for user interfaces, information visualization best practices

Mandatory non-technical skills:

• Strong communications and organizational skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity while juggling multiple priorities and projects at the same time
• Selection and coaching of technical team members
• Ability to manage and lead a group of technical employees (and contractors)
• Team capacity balancing
• Conflict resolution skills

Differentiating competencies required:

• Strong applications development with strong business acumen and ability to communicate in business language
• Translates complex technical solutions into business terms
• Highly flexible to handle multiple priorities
• Great collaborator with other analytics teams under the organization (data engineering, data science, etc)
• Attitude to learn and apply new technologies.

Keyskills :
javaagilefunctionalcustomer relationsdeliverystrong business acumenscaled agile frameworkhandle multiple prioritiesnatural language generationsoft skillsdata scienceagile processproject teamsbusiness acumenbusiness objectsnatural language