Lead, Data Integrations & Scalable Architecture

coke; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a senior data engineering leader in Atlanta to drive strategic technical direction and mentor a high-performing team. You will shape scalable data architectures, champion modern data engineering practices, and oversee cost governance across Microsoft Fabric.

You will lead multi-team initiatives, advance streaming and batch processing, and partner with business, technology, and product teams to align with enterprise objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership across multiple teams to align with Data Integration strategy.
• Develop and mentor a diverse team of data integration professionals.
• Promote engineering practices with modular design and testing.
• Design scalable data architectures using Spark/Scala in Microsoft Fabric.
• Tune Spark workloads for memory, partitioning, and query planning.
• Drive Data FinOps and cloud cost governance for Fabric and cloud infra.

Skills

Scala

JVM

Data engineering

Data integration

Apache Spark

Functional programming

Git

GitHub Actions

Maven/SBT

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

Maven/SBT

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a senior data engineering leader in Atlanta to drive strategic technical direction and mentor a high-performing team. You will shape scalable data architectures, champion modern data engineering practices, and oversee cost governance across Microsoft Fabric.

You will lead multi-team initiatives, advance streaming and batch processing, and partner with business, technology, and product teams to align with enterprise objectives.