Senior Director, Engineering

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 6, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Director of Technology is accountable for the technical leadership, engineering strategy, and delivery excellence of a portfolio of product teams operating under a modern Product Operating Model. This role manages a group of Tech Leads embedded within durable, cross-functional product teams and ensures technology decisions accelerate customer outcomes, business results, and long-term platform health.
This leader is a multiplier, raising the technical bar, improving decision quality, and enabling teams to move fast without sacrificing quality, security, or scalability.
Core Accountabilities`

Product Model Leadership
•    Partner with Product and Design leadership to co-own outcomes, not output.
•    Ensure Tech Leads actively contribute to product discovery, feasibility assessment, and rapid experimentation.
•    Translate product strategy into cohesive technical direction across teams.

Technical Strategy & Architecture
•    Own the technical vision and architecture guardrails for the product portfolio.
•    Balance near-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
•    Drive architectural consistency while enabling team-level autonomy.
•    Make explicit trade-offs across speed, cost, risk, and scalability.

Engineering Execution
•    Ensure teams consistently deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality software.
•    Establish and enforce engineering standards (CI/CD, testing, observability, security, resilience).
•    Remove systemic impediments to flow and throughput.
•    Use data to continuously improve delivery performance (cycle time, reliability, defects, availability).

Tech Lead Management & Development
•    Directly manage and develop a cohort of Tech Leads.
•    Set clear expectations for technical leadership, decision-making, and collaboration.
•    Coach Tech Leads to operate as strong partners to Product Managers and Designers.
•    Build bench strength through mentoring, succession planning, and targeted growth plans.

Organizational & Cross-Enterprise Influence
•    Serve as a senior technology voice with peers in Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and Operations.
•    Influence funding, sequencing, and prioritization through evidence-based recommendations.
•    Ensure compliance with enterprise risk, security, and regulatory requirements without slowing teams unnecessarily.

Business Partnership & Executive Communication
•    Act as a primary technology partner to business leadership, translating business strategy, customer needs, and market dynamics into clear technical direction and delivery plans.
•    Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders by communicating progress, trade-offs, risks, and investment decisions in clear, outcome-focused language.
•    Ensure Tech Leads are effective communicators who can explain technical decisions in business terms and engage confidently with non-technical audiences.
•    Represent technology with external customers, partners, and vendors, articulating product capabilities, roadmap intent, architectural posture, and delivery commitments with credibility and clarity.
•    Proactively surface and frame technology constraints, dependencies, and risks early, enabling informed business decisions rather than late surprises.
•    Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, and Business teams by ensuring shared understanding of goals, success measures, and value realization.

Success Measures
•    Product teams consistently achieve customer and business outcomes.
•    Improved engineering throughput and predictability.
•    Reduced technical risk and unplanned work.
•    Strong Tech Lead engagement, retention, and readiness for broader leadership.
•    Platforms that scale with the business and reduce the marginal cost of delivery.

Leadership Profile 
•    Outcome-oriented, not feature-driven
•    Strong technical taste and decision clarity
•    Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid learning
•    Coaches leaders rather than directing tasks
•    Holds teams accountable while creating psychological safety

Required Experience & Capabilities
•    Bachelor’s degree preferably in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience in the Product Operating Model.
•    Prefer 8+ years experience leading a Product technology team
•    Proven success leading product teams in continuous discovery and delivery.
•    Strong system design and architecture expertise in modern cloud-native environments.
•    Deep understanding of DevOps, SRE, and secure-by-design principles.
•    Demonstrated ability to coach senior engineers and scale teams.

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range:

$202,000 - $229,000

Base 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:

30

Annual 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.

Our 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.

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