Associate Principal Engineer - Project Manager

• Partner in facilitating product/program-related agile events and maintaining product/program artifacts.
• Collaborate with Product Ownership to deliver the product/program's prioritized backlog.
• Understand/anticipate and engage in the escalation/mitigation of risks and impediments - Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles, vendors, and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
• Demonstrate servant leadership by educating and enabling teams on how to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via Lean-Agile practices.
• Partner with senior leadership and technology partners to deliver prioritized innovation ideas that align best with PepsiCo priorities while leveraging our technology partners' capabilities & expertise - Manage both up and down the personnel hierarchy.
• Support the Technical Program Manager in all product delivery activities.
• Drive Azure DevOps best practices within and across products/programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, with a concentration in either Business or Information Systems Management preferred.
• 5+ years of work experience, or 2-3 years of relevant experience either in CPG delivery teams or with a Top-Tier consulting firm.
• Microsoft ADO skills and expertise are a must.
• Ability to articulate Scrum Team's performance building data driven dashboards in ADO and ensure Team's velocity is improved.
• SAFe (or noteworthy alternative) Scrum Master certification.
• Project management experience, including balancing schedules, costs, and timelines.
• Delivery experience with proven track record of agile team leadership and/or project/product delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, communicate, and deliver clear program/team status and action plans.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to articulate delivery plans and challenges to senior and executive leadership.
• Ability to work in cross-functional team environments and matrix organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, people management experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with both business and technical audiences effectively and concisely.
• Preference for experience leading Scrum/Agile team events; preference for experience supporting PI Planning events.