Job Description Summary:
The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director, Data Architect for Global Equipment Platforms (GEP). GEP is building the next generation of connected equipment capabilities across Freestyle, dispensed, coolers, digital racks, IoT-enabled assets, and future equipment ecosystems. As GEP evolves from individual equipment platforms into a connected commercial network, data architecture will be critical to enabling scalable analytics, AI, predictive maintenance, beverage quality intelligence, operational visibility, and customer-facing data products.
The Director, Data Architect will define and govern the enterprise data architecture for GEP. This role establishes the data models, data contracts, architecture patterns, governance standards, and data product foundations needed to support telemetry, equipment data, service data, product analytics, and AI-ready capabilities across the global equipment ecosystem.
This is a senior individual contributor architecture leadership role responsible for defining GEP's data architecture vision, standards, and federated operating model. The role will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Unified IoT, Platform, Data Science, Operating Units, Bottlers, Legal, Security, and external partners, while working within the broader enterprise and global data architecture framework to ensure GEP's data ecosystem is scalable, governed, discoverable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise technology standards and business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Define GEP’s Enterprise Data Architecture
Evaluate existing data architecture, platforms, and capabilities across GEP and the broader enterprise ecosystem; identify gaps and opportunities; and define a target-state architecture and modernization roadmap aligned to enterprise standards, business priorities, and future-state digital and AI capabilities.
Lead the definition of GEP’s enterprise data architecture across equipment telemetry, operational events, service data, product analytics, customer-facing insights, and AI/ML use cases.
Establish canonical data models for core entities such as equipment, devices, outlets, customers, bottlers, telemetry events, service events, products, consumption, configurations, and operational states.
Define architecture patterns for how data flows across source systems, Unified IoT, KOS, FOS, Microsoft Fabric, Data Hub, APIs, data products, and downstream applications.
Partner with GEP Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, and broader global architecture and technology teams to ensure data architecture standards are implementable, scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable.
Own Data Contracts and Semantic Consistency
Define and govern data contracts between source systems, OEMs, vendors, platform teams, and data consumers.
Establish standards for schemas, metadata, lineage, naming conventions, data definitions, and semantic layers.
Establish and evolve business ontologies and knowledge models that define the relationships between equipment, telemetry, products, customers, service events, and operational processes, enabling consistent data interpretation, interoperability, discoverability, and AI-ready capabilities.
Ensure data generated by equipment and upstream systems can be consistently understood, reused, governed, and consumed across analytics, AI, reporting, and product workflows.
Partner with Unified IoT and Common Equipment Data Language efforts to ensure telemetry and equipment data are aligned to enterprise-level definitions.
Enable Data Products at Scale
Define architectural standards for reusable data products, including curated datasets, APIs, semantic models, feature layers, and governed access patterns.
Support the shift from ad hoc analytics and fragmented reporting toward scalable, reusable data products that answer business questions end to end.
Ensure data products are designed for multiple stakeholder personas, including product teams, engineering teams, operations, operating units, bottlers, account teams, and future customer-facing use cases.
Partner with Data Product, Analytics, and Data Science teams to ensure data products are production-grade, measurable, documented, and governed.
Strengthen Data Governance and Access Control
Define data ownership, stewardship, and governance models across GEP, Operating Units, Bottlers, customers, and external partners.
Establish principles for role-based access, domain-based access, data classification, discoverability, and controlled data sharing.
Partner with Legal, Security, Privacy, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure data architecture supports regulatory and contractual requirements.
Ensure architecture patterns support secure, auditable, and controlled access to sensitive operational, commercial, and equipment data.
Build AI-Ready Data Foundations
Define architecture patterns that make GEP data usable for predictive maintenance, beverage quality intelligence, operational optimization, product analytics, and additional AI-driven applications.
Partner with Data Science and AI teams to standardize reusable features, semantic models, and data products that accelerate model development and deployment.
Ensure enterprise data powering AI and analytics initiatives is reliable, traceable, semantically aligned, and governed through robust data architecture, ontology/semantic modeling, lineage, metadata management, to enable trusted AI and measurable business outcomes.
Help reduce duplication of feature engineering, one-off modeling datasets, and fragmented analytical logic.
Partner Across the GEP Ecosystem
Work closely with Unified IoT product leadership, platform engineering, product teams, data engineering, data science, experience design, and equipment platform teams.
Serve as the data architecture point of contact for strategic initiatives involving KOS, Unified IoT, Common Equipment Data Language, Fabric, Data Hub, predictive maintenance, beverage quality, and customer-facing analytics.
Influence architecture decisions across internal and external stakeholders without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance to vendors and delivery partners, ensuring vendors execute against GEP-defined standards rather than defining architecture independently.
Qualifications & Requirements:
10+ years in data architecture, enterprise data platforms, data engineering, analytics architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Experience defining data architecture across complex, multi-system enterprise environments.
Strong experience with cloud data platforms, lakehouse or warehouse architectures, data modeling, metadata, semantic layers, APIs, and data integration patterns.
Experience designing or governing data products, data contracts, canonical data models, or enterprise semantic layers.
Experience working across data engineering, product, software engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders.
Strong understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, access control, classification, and stewardship.
Ability to translate complex business needs into
Preferred Skills:
Experience with IoT, telemetry, connected devices, manufacturing, operational technology, industrial systems, or equipment data.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks, Snowflake, or other modern enterprise data platforms.
Experience designing architectures that support AI/ML, predictive analytics, operational intelligence, or real-time monitoring.
Experience with data mesh, domain-oriented architecture, federated governance, or distributed data ownership models.
Experience working with external partners, OEMs, vendors, bottlers, franchise networks, or customer-facing data ecosystems.
Experience with metadata management, data catalogs, data discovery tools, observability, and data quality framewor
Skills:
Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Data Compilation, Manufacturing Analytics, Process Improvements, Risk Assessments, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Supply Chain ProcessesPay Range:
United States of America: 149,000 USD - 173,000 USDBase pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
30Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s):
United States of AmericaCity/Cities:
AtlantaTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
August 13, 2026Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in data science, analytics, or related roles with demonstrable business impact
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Strong proficiency in SQL
- Experience with data science libraries (Pandas, Scikit-learn)
- Experience working with large, complex datasets including time-series or telemetry data
- Experience building and deploying predictive models in production or near-production environments
- Experience working in cross-functional teams with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
- Ability to work hands-on across data preparation, modeling, and analysis
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain technical outputs in business terms
- Experience with IoT, connected devices, or equipment/telemetry-based data
- Experience in predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, or reliability analytics
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, Fabric, Databricks, or similar
- Familiarity with data pipelines and working with data engineering teams
- Experience supporting experimentation, A/B testing, or product analytics
- Experience contributing to reusable analytics or data product initiatives
The Coca-Cola Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a standout, combining a 401(k) match with a company-funded cash-balance pension and an employee stock purchase plan match that together materially increase long-term package value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and feature-rich, including national medical coverage plus specialized add-ons like virtual care, second opinions, oncology navigation, fertility support, and chronic-condition programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are outlined with structured vacation accrual that increases with tenure and a holiday program that includes both set and floating days.
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What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.
