Senior Director, Engineering

Coca-Cola

3.3

(45)

Atlanta, GA

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    Position summary

    ction 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.

    Pay Range:
    United States of America: 202,000 USD - 229,000 USD

    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.

    Location(s):
    United States of America

    City/Cities:
    Atlanta

    Travel Required:
    00% - 25%

    Relocation Provided:
    No

    Job Posting End Date:
    June 7, 2026

    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.

    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.

    Pay Range:United States of America: 0 USD - 0 USD
    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.

    Long-term Incentive Reference Value Percentage:0 - 20
    Long-term Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role

    Why you should apply for a job to Coca-Cola:

  • 4.8/5 in supportive management
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.