Senior Director, Data Integrations

This senior leadership role combines deep technical proficiency (hands-on) in modern data engineering with a strategic direction to enable enterprise-scale integration across Coca-Cola’s Data and Analytics platforms. You will drive both the engineering rigor and the career development of your team.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide Strategic Technical Leadership: Champion modern data engineering principles and a systems-thinking approach across multiple teams, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with Coca-Cola’s Data Integration strategy.

• Develop and Inspire High-Performing Teams: Lead and mentor a diverse team of data integration professionals, building capabilities in advanced architectures, fostering a culture of learning, and supporting career progression.

• Drive Engineering Excellence: Promote engineering practices - advancing modular design, functional programming standards, and continuous testing across all integration solutions.

• Lead Design and Delivery of Scalable Data Architectures: Shape and implement distributed pipelines and Medallion architectures using technologies such as Apache Spark and Scala within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem to enable flexible, efficient data integration.

• Enhance Performance and Optimization: Apply advanced techniques for Spark workload tuning - addressing memory, partitioning, and query planning to deploy efficient batch and streaming processes.

• Drive Data FinOps and Cloud Cost Governance: Implement robust cost monitoring, workload forecasting, and capacity planning for Microsoft Fabric and associated cloud infrastructure to maximize ROI, ensure efficient compute utilization, and balance fiscal accountability with performance SLAs.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Proven experience (10+ years) 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in cloud platforms or data engineering (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Databricks Certified Professional).

• Background in platform cost governance and workload performance modeling at enterprise scale.

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.

Data Engineering, Data Integration, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Software Engineering

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

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At The Coca-Cola Company, we believe data is the foundation for creating personalized experiences and powering sustainable growth in today’s digital-first world. As consumers engage with our brands in more connected ways than ever before, we are investing in advanced data and analytics platforms to unlock deeper insights, accelerate decision-making, and enable seamless innovation at scale., 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.