The Coca-Cola Company · 14 hours ago
Director, Tech Lead
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$171K/yr - $198K/yr
6+ years expThe Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Tech Lead who will be accountable for the technical execution, architectural integrity, and delivery outcomes of a product team. This role involves partnering with Product Management and Product Design to deliver solutions that achieve measurable business outcomes while ensuring sustainable engineering practices and compliance with industry regulations.
Consumer GoodsFast-Moving Consumer GoodsFood and BeverageManufacturing
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end engineering outcomes for the product: quality, reliability, performance, scalability, and time-to-value
Translate product strategy and outcome-based OKRs into executable technical plans
Lead continuous delivery with high deployment frequency, low change failure rates, and rapid recovery
Set and evolve the technical direction and architecture aligned to product strategy and enterprise guardrails
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, cost, and technical debt
Ensure systems are designed for resilience, observability, and security by default
Operate as a full partner with Product Manager and Product Designer
Actively participate in product discovery, feasibility assessment, and solution shaping
Challenge assumptions with data, prototypes, and technical insight with a focus of facts over opinions
Demonstrate an entrepreneur demeaner with the ability to influence and sell ideas
Ability to articulate complex technology concepts in a manner that business leaders and customers will understand
Maintain a deep understanding of the business, priorities, and business strategy and in turn interpret that strategy into technology solutions
Mentor a high-performing, empowered engineering team
Coach engineers on craftsmanship, system thinking, and product mindset
Create an environment of ownership, psychological safety, and accountability
Establish and enforce standards for:
Code quality and test automation
CI/CD and DevOps practices
Security, privacy, and compliance
Reduce toil through automation and platform leverage
Manage and deliberately pay down technical debt
Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to executives and partners
Align product-level engineering decisions with platform, architecture, and security leaders
Influence without hierarchy; lead through credibility and outcomes
Technical design, architecture, and implementation approaches
Engineering prioritization within product-level objectives
Build vs. buy recommendations
Hiring and performance input for engineering roles on the team
Product OKRs achieved (business and customer outcomes)
Deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate
System reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Team engagement, retention, and skill growth
Reduction in critical technical debt over time
Demonstrated ability to create and execute innovative, technology-led strategies that enable Customer and Commercial functions within a Fast-Moving Consumer Packaged Goods (FMCG) environment, including sales, marketing, customer service, and route-to-market operations
Deep, hands-on expertise in full-stack engineering and Salesforce platform development, including modern front-end frameworks, API-driven back ends, cloud infrastructure, and Salesforce ecosystems (Sales, Service, Experience, and custom platform extensions), with an emphasis on scalable, secure, and performant solutions
Extensive experience leading technology experimentation from hypothesis and rapid prototyping through production deployment delivering deployable product outputs that validate customer value, operational impact, and technical feasibility
Proven track record of defining measurable business outcomes (e.g., revenue growth, cost reduction, cycle-time improvement, customer satisfaction, adoption, and productivity gains) and being directly accountable for achieving those outcomes through technology and product delivery
Obsess over outcomes, not outputs
Comfortable identifying and saying “no” to low-value work even when it’s popular
Data driven, customer centric, and relentlessly pragmatic
Treats engineering as a product capability, not a delivery function
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience in the Product Operating Model
Prefer 6+ 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
Benefits
A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is a soft drink manufacturer & distributor that makes a variety of soft drinks, including diet coke and regular coke.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1919-09-05IPO
Leadership Team
Henrique Braun
Chief Operating Officer
Jennifer Henry
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Recent News
2026-01-16
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