Innovation Tech Lead

## Innovation Tech Lead Apply:
US - GA - Atlanta:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R-145106
** Job Description

Summary:

**** Role Overview
** At The Coca‐Cola Company, digital innovation is accelerating how we connect people to our brands and create value across markets. We are shaping a global technology ecosystem that empowers data‐driven decision‐making, intelligent automation, and next‐generation consumer experiences. The Senior Director, Innovation Technology Lead plays a critical role in advancing this ambition— leading the engineering strategy, technical execution and evolution of Coca-Cola’s innovation technology portfolio, translating business priorities into scalable digital products, AI enabled capabilities and enterprise platforms that drive global growth and innovation.  

This role partners across Product Leadership, Data, and Technology teams to enable scalable technical solutions supporting business growth and operational excellence. The successful candidate combines deep engineering expertise with the ability to translate complex product goals into actionable technology plans.  Working within Coca-Cola’s global Digital organization, they will drive the engineering strategy and execution of AI-powered innovation capabilities, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and modern data platforms to enhance innovation science, accelerate experimentation, and improve innovation outcomes.  

Ideal candidates will bring technical fluency, hands‐on problem‐solving skills, and collaborative leadership. This position offers the opportunity to work across a diverse global environment at the forefront of digital transformation within one of the world’s most iconic brands.  
** What You’ll Do for Us
*** Own the technology strategy that enables Coca-Cola’s innovation agenda, including AI-powered products, decision intelligence capabilities, experimentation platforms and emerging technology investments.
* Lead the engineering teams responsible for building, operating and scaling innovation products and shared capabilities.  Foster a high-performance engineering culture through coaching, talent development, technical leadership and continuous learning while managing relationships with critical technology partners to accelerate innovation outcomes.
* Partner with Product, Data and Business leaders to translate innovation priorities into secure, scalable products and platforms – guiding technical decisions and ensuring successful delivery of centralized innovation capabilities across global markets.
* Establish a culture of engineering excellence by advancing modern software engineering, AI engineering, platform reliability, security, observability and operating practices.  Apply technical metrics, insights, and feedback loops to measure and improve developer experience and system efficiency, contributing to Coca‐Cola’s ongoing evolution toward intelligent digital operations.
* Lead delivery across a portfolio of innovation products and platforms, partnering with product management to align technology investments with business and product priorities.  Drive informed decisions on technical tradeoffs, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure solutions are secure by design, scalable, resilient and adaptable within an evolving technology ecosystem.
* Strengthen collaboration across Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Architecture and Innovation business teams, fostering shared accountability, knowledge exchange, and the successful adoption and scaling of innovation capabilities across the enterprise.  
** Requirements & Qualifications
*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
* Demonstrated experience delivering…