Senior Data Architecture & AI Strategy Director

Coca-Cola; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company seeks a Director, NAOU Data Architecture & Engineering to lead enterprise data and AI initiatives across North America. You will guide architects, engineers and ML/AI teams to build scalable data products, establish CI/CD, IaC, and MLOps patterns, and ensure secure, observable production systems.

You will partner with data scientists and enterprise teams to drive governance, cost efficiency and responsible AI while communicating value to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, data engineering, analytics platforms, data science platforms, AI architecture or enterprise technology.
• 5+ years of experience leading architects, engineers, technical leaders or multidisciplinary platform teams.
• Experience designing cloud-native architectures spanning lakehouse and warehouse platforms, data products, streaming, APIs, semantic models.
• Experience with enterprise cloud data platforms such as Azure, Fabric, OneLake, Power BI and Azure Databricks.
• Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and MLOps practices, including experimentation, deployment, monitoring and governance.
• Strong communication to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architects, data engineers, platform engineers and ML/AI engineers responsible for enterprise data and AI capabilities.
• Establish engineering standards for CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, orchestration and observability.
• Drive reusable frameworks and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery across business units.
• Define end-to-end ML/AI lifecycle, including experimentation, training, deployment, monitoring and governance.
• Partner with data scientists to transition prototypes into secure, observable production solutions.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Analytics

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Business Processes

Cloud Platform

Communication

Data Analytics

Data Flow Diagram

Data Science

Data Strategies

DevOps

Digital Technology

Digital Transformation

Emerging Technologies

Enterprise Architecture Framework

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Generative AI

Kotlin Programming Language

Microsoft Office

Microsoft SharePoint

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Technical Solutions

Technology Strategies

User Experience (UX)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science or a related field

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company seeks a Director, NAOU Data Architecture & Engineering to lead enterprise data and AI initiatives across North America. You will guide architects, engineers and ML/AI teams to build scalable data products, establish CI/CD, IaC, and MLOps patterns, and ensure secure, observable production systems.

You will partner with data scientists and enterprise teams to drive governance, cost efficiency and responsible AI while communicating value to senior leadership.