Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer

Coca-Cola; Rome (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola is seeking a Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-powered enterprise apps. You will collaborate with Product, Data, Platform, and Architecture teams to embed AI capabilities into critical business domains.

Responsibilities include establishing engineering standards, deploying scalable ML solutions, and ensuring governance, security, and reliability across the Digital Product & Engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering or digital product engineering environments.
• 3+ years delivering machine learning or artificial intelligence solutions in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and support enterprise-grade applications and intelligent digital products that leverage AI/ML capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Data, Platform, and Architecture teams to embed AI-enabled functionality into products serving critical business domains.
• Drive engineering excellence by implementing modern software engineering standards, testing, and automation.
• Build, deploy, and manage ML solutions scalable across use cases, products, and functions.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, frameworks, and components to improve quality and speed.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business opportunities into scalable digital solutions with measurable value.
• Implement MLOps practices supporting model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, privacy, and architectural standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Cloud-native applications

MLOps

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/AI/Data Science or related field

Tools

Python

Kubernetes

ML frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Job Description Summary:

Role Overview

The Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer is part of the Product Engineering team within the Digital Product & Engineering organization of Coca - Cola's Global Digital Network and reports to the Senior Director, Engineering Excellence Lead. This role plays a critical part in advancing Coca - Cola's digital transformation by building, scaling, and operationalizing intelligent applications that embed data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning into prioritized domains across the enterprise.

Working within an engineering excellence framework, this role partners closely with Product Managers, Product Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Architects, and domain stakeholders to develop secure, scalable, and high-performing digital products that accelerate growth, productivity, and operational efficiency. The role is responsible for translating emerging AI and machine learning capabilities into production-ready solutions that create measurable business value and support the organization's transition to a digital-first, product-centric operating model.

The ideal candidate combines modern software engineering expertise with machine learning delivery experience and a passion for continuous improvement, helping establish best practices, reusable engineering patterns, and operational excellence across the Digital Product & Engineering organization.

What You will do for us

• Design, develop, deploy, and support enterprise-grade applications and intelligent digital products that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Data, Platform, and Architecture teams to embed AI-enabled functionality into products serving critical business domains.
• Drive engineering excellence by implementing modern software engineering standards, development practices, testing frameworks, and automation capabilities.
• Build, deploy, and manage machine learning solutions that can be scaled across multiple use cases, products, and business functions.
• Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, frameworks, and components that improve product quality, maintainability, and development speed.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate business opportunities into scalable digital solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Implement Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practices that support model deployment, monitoring, lifecycle management, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the Product Engineering strategy by identifying opportunities to improve application performance, developer productivity, and platform capabilities.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise cybersecurity, privacy, responsible AI, and architectural standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, engineering tools, and AI capabilities to accelerate innovation while maintaining operational stability and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, experimentation, and knowledge sharing across the Digital Product & Engineering organization.
• Support the Digital Product & Engineering organization in building scalable digital products that enable Coca - Cola's digital growth engine.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, or digital product engineering environments.
• 3+ years of experience delivering machine learning or artificial intelligence solutions in production environments.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications using modern architectural patterns and engineering practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in application engineering, machine learning frameworks, model deployment, and production support.
• Experience implementing MLOps , CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and deployment practices.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and scalable application architectures.
• Experience collaborating within product-centric operating models and agile product delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of engineering quality practices, code review processes, software reliability, and operational excellence principles.
• Experience integrating data, analytics, AI, and machine learning capabilities into customer-facing or enterprise digital products.
• Understanding of responsible AI, model governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and enterprise risk management requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively within global, cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.