Principal Enterprise Architect

Coke Florida Careers • Tampa, FL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida (Coke Florida) is hiring a Principal Enterprise Architect based at its Tampa headquarters. The role enables the technology vision and leads the design, alignment, and governance of enterprise architecture across business units and affiliates in a multi-company organization. It shapes the long-term architecture vision for applications, enterprise platforms, services, and IT infrastructure, ensuring technology decisions deliver secure business value, scalability, resilience, and adaptability to evolving business needs.

The Principal Enterprise Architect serves as a trusted advisor to executives and IT leadership, connecting strategy with execution and aligning business needs with technical capabilities. The role oversees architecture for enterprise-level systems, develops roadmaps and standards, guides technology investments and transformation initiatives, and leads cross-functional architecture efforts. It also monitors technology trends and evaluates emerging capabilities to improve enterprise architecture and support business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12 or more years of experience in IT, including 7 or more years in enterprise or solution architecture.
• Proven architectural leadership across multi-business-unit organizations.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms, enterprise platforms, and enterprise networking.
• Strong background in application integration, cloud adoption, and infrastructure design.
• Executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technology into clear business value.
• Strong governance and decision-making capabilities.
• Track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading and managing organizational change.
• Ability to develop and implement strategic plans aligned with business objectives and business cases.
• Ability to prioritize multiple objectives, anticipate adjustments, and address issues and obstacles.
• Effective written and verbal communication and ability to work with all organizational levels and external partners.
• Results-oriented, self-motivated approach, with a bias for action and a track record of delivering results.
• Ability to build effective working relationships, maintain accountability, and collaborate with others.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• TOGAF, AWS or Azure Architect, ITIL, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with AI and its use in infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap and long-term technology vision, aligning technology investments with business goals.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards, policies, frameworks, principles, patterns, and design standards for data, security, infrastructure, and application development.
• Partner with IT leadership to establish KPIs and performance metrics, and generate reports and dashboards for operational and performance insights.
• Ensure technology solutions, platforms, and processes comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams and junior architects.
• Research emerging technologies, conduct proofs of concept, and champion digital transformation initiatives such as cloud migration and data modernization.
• Own the enterprise architecture framework across the organization, balancing global standards with business-specific requirements.
• Define or support multi-year roadmaps for applications, platforms, and networks in alignment with corporate strategy.
• Lead the Architecture Review Board and ensure projects adhere to enterprise design standards.
• Align technology investments with cloud strategies, hybrid models, and security frameworks.
• Drive automation, resilience, and monitoring standards across infrastructure platforms.
• Guide adoption and integration of cloud applications and enterprise network, cybersecurity, data, and AI architectures.
• Define strategies for platform consolidation, modernization, and interoperability.
• Partner with application owners to rationalize the portfolio and reduce technical debt.
• Ensure data and application architectures support scalability, analytics, and compliance.
• Advise Technology tower leadership by translating goals into technology blueprints.
• Facilitate collaboration across business units to identify shared platforms and services.
• Provide executive-level updates on technology roadmaps, architecture decisions, and risk posture.
• Track industry trends in cloud, network, and platform evolution and recommend adoption strategies.
• Represent enterprise architecture in executive forums, vendor discussions, and strategic initiatives.
• Develop and publish architectural standards and maintain system landscapes and diagrams.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans through Total Wellness Programs for eligible full-time associates.
• 401(k) program with company match.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation pay.
• Ten company-paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Competitive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal