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Job Description Summary:
At The Coca-Cola Company, we believe data is the foundation for creating personalized experiences and powering sustainable growth in today’s digital-first world. As consumers engage with our brands in more connected ways than ever before, we are investing in advanced data and analytics platforms to unlock deeper insights, accelerate decision-making, and enable seamless innovation at scale.
This senior leadership role combines deep technical proficiency (hands-on) in modern data engineering with a strategic direction to enable enterprise-scale integration across Coca‑Cola’s Data and Analytics platforms. You will drive both the engineering rigor and the career development of your team.
Core Responsibilities
Provide Strategic Technical Leadership: Champion modern data engineering principles and a systems-thinking approach across multiple teams, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with Coca‑Cola’s Data Integration strategy.
Develop and Inspire High-Performing Teams: Lead and mentor a diverse team of data integration professionals, building capabilities in advanced architectures, fostering a culture of learning, and supporting career progression.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Promote engineering practices - advancing modular design, functional programming standards, and continuous testing across all integration solutions.
Lead Design and Delivery of Scalable Data Architectures: Shape and implement distributed pipelines and Medallion architectures using technologies such as Apache Spark and Scala within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem to enable flexible, efficient data integration.
Enhance Performance and Optimization: Apply advanced techniques for Spark workload tuning - addressing memory, partitioning, and query planning to deploy efficient batch and streaming processes.
Drive Data FinOps and Cloud Cost Governance: Implement robust cost monitoring, workload forecasting, and capacity planning for Microsoft Fabric and associated cloud infrastructure to maximize ROI, ensure efficient compute utilization, and balance fiscal accountability with performance SLAs.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Proven experience (10+ years) directly managing, mentoring, and developing software or data engineering teams.
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, partnering effectively across business, technology, and product teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned to enterprise objectives.
Proven experience managing, mentoring, and scaling software or data engineering teams, with a strong track record of leading complex projects and developing senior engineering staff.
Software Engineering (8+ years): Extensive polyglot development experience on the JVM, with a strict requirement for deep proficiency in Scala. Must demonstrate a strong grasp of functional programming, concurrency models, and modularization.
Spark Expertise (6+ years): Deep, hands-on experience building, debugging and optimizing distributed computing applications using Apache Spark.
DevOps & CI/CD: Proven ability to build automated release cycles. Hands-on expertise with Git, GitHub Actions, and build tools (Maven/SBT, UV are required).
Delivery: Experience in Agile development (Scrum, lean techniques) and collaborating with global engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Certification in cloud platforms or data engineering (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Databricks Certified Professional).
Background in platform cost governance and workload performance modeling at enterprise scale.
Skills:
Data Engineering, Data Integration, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Software EngineeringPay Range:
United States: 202,000 - 229,000 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:
October 4, 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field
- 10+ years directly managing, mentoring, and developing software or data engineering teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across business, technology, and product teams
- Experience leading complex projects and developing senior engineering staff
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with extensive JVM development and deep Scala proficiency
- Strong knowledge of functional programming, concurrency models, and modularization
- 6+ years of hands-on Apache Spark experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed applications
- Experience building automated release cycles with Git, GitHub Actions, Maven or SBT, and UV
- Experience with Agile development, Scrum, lean techniques, and global engineering teams
- Advanced degree
- Cloud platform or data engineering certification, such as Azure Solutions Architect or Databricks Certified Professional
- Platform cost governance and enterprise-scale workload performance modeling experience
The Coca-Cola Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Coca-Cola Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Coca-Cola Company.
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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.
The Coca-Cola Company Insights
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.
