Sr Principal Solution Architect

Job Overview

Keurig Dr Pepper is seeking a Sr. Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of advanced technology solutions that align with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards. This role requires a strong understanding of business goals, processes, and system integration to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.

The Solution Architect will analyze stakeholder requirements, define architectural frameworks, and develop high-level and review detailed solution designs. They will collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Product Owners, Agile development teams, and IT leadership to ensure solution integrity, alignment with roadmaps, and successful system integration.

• As the Sr. Principal Solution Architect, you will…
• Design solutions across a USRB portfolio that address significant business problems and deliver measurable value.
• Evolve and maintain conceptual and high-level architecture, ensuring consistency with enterprise and domain-level guiding principles and business objectives.
• Ensure solutions meet broad non-functional requirements, including resiliency, availability, maintainability, upgradeability, and scalability.
• Shepherd the detail design ensuring the detail design aligns with the high-level design and architecture direction.
• Communicate architectural approach to stakeholders, translating technical concepts for business and cross-functional understanding.
• Lead architecture documentation, technology evaluations, and vendor assessments to ensure solutions are scalable, cost effective, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Partner with business leaders, product owners, engineering teams, and vendors to define target state capabilities, prioritize strategic initiatives, and ensure successful execution.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across multiple delivery teams, making key architecture decisions, managing tradeoffs, and mitigating technical risks.

• Salary Range: $130,
• Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills, and other factors
• Benefits, subject to election and eligibility:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Paid Time Off (including paid parental leave, vacation, and sick time), 401k with company match, Tuition Reimbursement, and Mileage Reimbursement
• Annual bonus based on performance and eligibility

Who you are:

• Strong knowledge of system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including waterfall, agile, SAFe, Dev Ops, and others.
• Strong technical expertise across modern IT ecosystems, such as SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT, and analytics.
• Experience designing enterprise data and AI solutions leveraging Customer 360, Data Cloud, CRM Analytics, AI agents, predictive insights, recommendation engines, and generative AI capabilities.
• Strong leadership in solution architecture and strategic delivery, from vision through execution, including cross-functional team management and stakeholder communication.
• Experience in Salesforce eco system, B2B Commerce, Service Cloud, and Salesforce Platform architecture, with experience designing and scaling enterprise-wide commercial capabilities.
• Strong skills in translating business needs into technical solutions and mentoring team members through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Typically, 8+ years of experience in IT and business/industry including architecture experience (design, development, deployment, road-mapping), systems life cycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Experience in working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.
• Experience in Dev Ops and Agile technology environments (preferred).

• Any Salesforce certification (preferred)

Keurig Dr Pepper (Nasdaq: KDP) is a leading beverage company with…