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CTO Associate Manager
Company | PepsiCo |
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Location | Plano, TX, USA |
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Salary | $89000 – $149000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in SaaS platforms, data operations, data engineering, or related technology leadership roles.
- Understanding of enterprise data workflows, orchestration tools (e.g., Control-M, Azure Data Factory, Databricks), and operational dependencies is optional.
- Experience working in Agile environments, including participation in scrum ceremonies and backlog prioritization.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with business leaders, understand their priorities, and translate them into actionable plans.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with a focus on building trust and alignment across business and technical teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to develop high-quality executive presentations and communicate delivery status, risks, and metrics.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Azure Monitor, Datadog, or similar platforms.
- Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed organizations with dynamic priorities and high visibility.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills with a proactive and analytical mindset.
- A passion for operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Act as the SaaS Platform Lead, accountable for the overall stability, reliability, and performance of the platform.
- Serve as the Operations Point-of-Contact for DataOps Leads—regularly joining scrum calls, capturing key requirements, surfacing challenges, and identifying gaps in delivery.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to elicit, understand, and clearly articulate requirements, priorities, and business impacts.
- Maintain a catalog of critical jobs and pipelines, including dependencies, SLAs, and escalation protocols.
- Identify and escalate bottlenecks in delivery and work with cross-functional teams to drive mitigation plans and timeline transparency.
- Onboard high-impact jobs and workflows into the observability platform to ensure complete visibility and monitoring.
- Facilitate bi-directional communication between engineering teams and business users—translating complex technical insights into actionable and understandable business updates.
- Build and maintain executive-level dashboards, presentations, and status updates that summarize platform health, issue resolution progress, and business value delivered.
- Drive continuous improvement in operational processes, platform self-service capabilities, and monitoring coverage.
- Proactively lead discussions around platform KPIs, error trends, and delivery performance with key stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of enterprise data workflows, orchestration tools (e.g., Control-M, Azure Data Factory, Databricks) is optional.