Data Science; MLOPS) Tech Lead

Pepsi Co is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to help build, scale, and sustain global digital and analytics solutions across the enterprise. This role sits within Pepsi Co’s Data & Analytics organization and will focus on solving complex business problems, powering digital products, and creating measurable impact across commercial, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, sales, finance, and other enterprise domains.

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will serve as a senior hands-on contributor and technical leader, translating business needs into advanced statistical and machine learning solutions that are production-ready, reliable, reusable, monitorable, and sustainable. You will partner closely with Product, Data Engineering, ML Engineering, IT, and business stakeholders to move analytical solutions from discovery and experimentation into scalable enterprise adoption. The role may also evolve into people management responsibilities as the team expands.

• Lead highly complex data science initiatives from discovery through model development, deployment, monitoring, and sustained business use.
• Translate business problems into modeling, experimentation, simulation, optimization, and machine learning approaches with clear pathways to scalable production adoption.
• Design analytical solutions that are explainable, reusable, reliable, observable, and supportable in enterprise environments.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Data Engineering, ML Engineering, IT, and business stakeholders to define requirements, shape roadmaps, and deliver business-ready analytics products.
• Work with engineering teams to industrialize models into production-ready components, services, workflows, scheduled scoring processes, and reusable patterns.
• Define success metrics, KPIs, model health measures, data quality checks, and business outcome metrics to evaluate performance and impact after deployment.
• Research and apply appropriate emerging methods in machine learning, AI, statistics, optimization, and advanced analytics.
• Create reusable packages, libraries, documentation, best practices, and knowledge-transfer materials that advance the broader Data Science community.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and cross-functional partners.
• Help shape a collaborative culture focused on innovation, productization, reliability, reproducibility, and measurable business impact.

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $127,500 - $221,800.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 12% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, Pepsi Co offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

• 6+ years of experience building and delivering analytics, data science, or machine learning solutions in commercial, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, finance, sales, or related business domains.
• 6+ years of experience applying statistical and machine learning techniques, including supervised and unsupervised learning, to solve business problems.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience using Python or…