Head of Engineering & Platforms, Product OrganizationCoca-Cola • Atlanta, GA, US
Head of Engineering & Platforms, Product Organization
Coca-Cola • Atlanta, GA, US
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[job_card.job_description]Build an engineering organization centered around the Product Operating Model from inception, including structure, embedded product governance, talent model, leadership pipeline, and operating mechanisms. Hire, develop, and grow engineering managers, tech leads, and IC engineers across full-stack, mobile, platform, data, and quality disciplines. Establish engineering culture rooted in empowerment, high ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. Create career paths, competency models, and promotion frameworks consistent with elite product engineering organizations. Implement world-class engineering practices : CI / CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability, incident response, and performance engineering. Ensure teams own what they build end-to-end with defined SLAs, performance metrics, and operational readiness criteria. Drive continuous improvement in reliability, through automation, scalability, and cost efficiency across digital systems. Modernize workflows with AI-driven development tools, automated QA, and intelligent developer productivity platforms. Operate as the engineering counterpart to the Product Leader, co-owning discovery, experimentation, prioritization, and outcome delivery. Build strategic partnerships across North America functional leadership teams and with both North America and Global Digital & Technology Services. Align technical strategy with commercial, customer, and operational priorities across a highly matrixed system. Ensure engineering is deeply embedded in customer understanding and business context. Accelerate time-to-market through shared platform capabilities, reusable primitives, and high-leverage engineering patterns. Introduce new technologies, AI capabilities, automation, and modern integration approaches that materially improve customer and operational outcomes. Champion innovation grounded in measurable value : speed, reliability, cost, or customer impact. Influence global platform strategy by representing North America needs and identifying reusable patterns across markets. Direct accountability for the engineering organization's talent, operating budget, vendor strategy, cloud / resource consumption, and tooling ecosystem. Oversees ~$40M+ annual investment portfolio, comprised of : ~$20M+ in engineering capacity ~$20M+ in platform, cloud, and SaaS investments. Cloud and platform cost optimization across environments, APIs, platform services, observability, and system performance, directly influencing operational cost-to-serve. Shaping multi-year capital planning for modernization, platform consolidation, shared services, and technical infrastructure investments. Influencing system-wide investment decisions across : Digital products and experiences Shared platform capabilities Major enterprise integration initiatives Modernization and tech-debt retirement. Define and Drive measurable ROI through improved reliability, accelerated delivery velocity, platform reuse, and reduction in duplicative solutions across markets and partners. Establishing financial mechanisms that shift the enterprise from project-based funding to product and platform based investment, ensuring technical decisions are tied to long-term enterprise value. Operate as a senior technology voice across functions, each with distinct priorities and incentives. Drive alignment across environments where funding, data, systems, and ownership are distributed across multiple companies, geographies, and governance structures. Translate architectural complexity, technical trade-offs, integration risks, and platform scalability considerations into clear business, financial, and customer implications for senior executives. Influence global and North America technical strategy without direct authority, navigating tensions such as : Global platform standardization vs. local business needs Speed vs. operational reliability Engineering velocity vs. platform governance Modernization vs. short-term tactical delivery. Communicate with clarity and precision across audiences, from senior technical architects to customers, to commercial leadership to executive governance bodies. Establish new engineering communication rhythms, cultural norms, and decision-making mechanisms in an environment that is transitioning from legacy delivery models to a modern, product-driven and engineering-led operating model. Represent the Company through excellent communication skills and leadership presence with internal and external customers and stakeholders. The judgment bar for this role is exceptionally high. Decisions made by this leader have deep, multi-year implications for customer experience, commercial performance, operational reliability, and the digital competitiveness of the Company & System. This leader exercises ownership over : Engineering strategy, platform architecture, and technical direction for digital products and experiences in North America. Build-vs-buy decisions, including when to extend major platforms such as Salesforce versus building proprietary services (choices with multi-year financial and operational consequences). Sequencing of technical investments that influence reliability, scalability, speed-to-market, and modernization priorities. Drive experimentation to prove out capabilities vs full build out. Talent and organizational structure decisions that determine how engineering capacity is deployed across product domains and enterprise initiatives. Balancing near-term business needs with long-term platform scalability, technical integrity, and the retirement of systemic technical debt. Escalations involving production reliability, customer-impacting incidents, architectural change, and integration complexity across the global / local system. Modernizes how the enterprise builds, tests, deploys, and operates digital products by introducing advanced engineering practices, automation, and AI-enabled development tools. Drives the creation of scalable, reusable platform services that allow product teams to move faster, reduce redundancy, and deliver consistent experiences across markets and channels. Leads the architecture and technical strategy that enable new digital capabilities, including real-time data, personalization, mobile performance, service reliability, and multi-entity integration. Champions experimentation and rapid learning, enabling engineering teams to test technical approaches, validate patterns, and iterate quickly, while maintaining high standards for reliability and security. Identifies emerging technologies and brings forward solutions that improve performance, cost efficiency, developer experience, and long-term system scalability. Ensures innovation is purposeful, tied to measurable business outcomes, and aligned with commercial, customer, and operational strategies.
Head Of Engineering & Platforms, Product Organization
Location(s) : United States of America
City / Cities : Atlanta
Travel Required : 00% - 25%
Relocation Provided : Yes
Job Posting End Date : January 14, 2026
Shift : Up to 25% travel with an expectation to be in the office 3 days a week.
Primary Location : Applicants must currently reside in, or be willing to relocate to the Atlanta, Georgia area.
Education : Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field preferred.
Job Summary : The Head of Engineering & Platforms is the senior leader responsible for building and scaling the product management team for core Customer and Commercial Experience platforms and the engineering capability that powers digital products for North America. This is a foundational, entrepreneurial role : this engineering organization is in its infancy, and this leader will take it from 0 ? 1, establishing the Product Operating Model culture, systems, and technical backbone for how we build software going forward in the largest operating unit ($18Bn+) in The Coca-Cola Company.
What You'll Do for Us
Key Duties / Primary Responsibilities :
1. Engineering Vision, Technical Strategy & Architecture : (30%)
- Define the long-term engineering vision and technical strategy for North America, including platform architecture, shared services, integration patterns, and modernization priorities.
- Establish architectural principles that support rapid product development, global platform alignment, and multi-market scalability.
- Lead build-vs-buy strategy, leveraging modern SaaS and platforms (e.g., Salesforce) while ensuring strategic capabilities are built in-house for flexibility and differentiation.
- Ensure our architecture supports speed, resiliency, observability, and API-first extensibility.
2. Build & Scale a Modern Technology Delivery Organization : (25%)
3. Engineering Excellence, Delivery Velocity & Operational Maturity : (20%)
4. Cross-Functional Leadership & Enterprise Collaboration : (15%)
5. Innovation, Platform Leverage & Future Capability Creation : (10%)
Financial / Job Scope :
Communication Complexities :
Because this is the Company's first engineering leader charged with establishing a modern Product Management engineering organization, communication complexity, influence requirements, and stakeholder orchestration are significantly elevated.
Judgment and Decision-Making :
Innovation :
Supervisory Responsibilities :
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