Principal Enterprise Architect

Coca Cola Beverages Florida•Tampa, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Coke Florida is hiring a Principal Enterprise Architect based at its Tampa headquarters. This role enables the technology vision, defines architectural standards, and drives digital transformation by ensuring that technology decisions deliver secure business value, scalability, resilience, and future readiness. The position leads the design, alignment, and governance of enterprise architecture strategy across a multi-company, multi-division organization with diverse businesses and business models. The Principal Enterprise Architect shapes the long-term architecture vision for applications, enterprise platforms, services, and IT infrastructure. The role evaluates technology trends and emerging opportunities to meet evolving business needs, and serves as a trusted advisor to executives and IT leadership, connecting strategy with execution. It oversees enterprise-level systems and leads cross-functional architecture work to align business needs with technical capabilities. The role owns the enterprise architecture framework and roadmap, establishes and enforces standards and governance, and partners with business units and technology leaders to align investments with corporate strategy. It guides cloud, network, cybersecurity, data, AI, application, and platform architectures; supports modernization and portfolio rationalization; and promotes secure, reliable, scalable, interoperable, and cost-effective operations. The position also leads the Architecture Review Board, communicates roadmaps and risks to executives, researches emerging technologies, and mentors architects and cross-functional teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of experience in IT, including 7+ 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.
Strategic thinking to maintain scalable, reliable, and future-fit enterprise architecture as technology changes.
Ability to develop and implement strategic plans aligned with business objectives and business cases.
Collaboration and relationship skills across business units, affiliates, IT, and external partners.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.
Ability to prioritize multiple objectives, anticipate adjustments, and address issues and obstacles.
Ability to engage and work effectively with all levels of an organization and external partners.
Professional maturity, including respect for others’ roles and opinions and constructive participation in meetings.
Results-oriented, self-motivated approach with a bias for action and a track record of delivering results.
Ability to create effective working relationships, maintain accountability, and sustain positive relationships.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap and long-term vision, ensuring technology investments support business goals.
Establish and enforce architecture principles, design standards, policies, patterns, frameworks, and governance for data, security, infrastructure, applications, and platforms.
Partner with IT leadership to establish KPIs and performance metrics, and generate reports and dashboards on performance, insights, and operations.
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 proof-of-concepts, and champion digital transformation initiatives, including cloud migration and data modernization.
Own the enterprise architecture framework and partner with business units to balance global standards with business-specific requirements.
Define or support multi-year roadmaps for applications, platforms, and networks, aligning them 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 SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud applications, as well as 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.
Act as a strategic advisor to technology tower leadership, translating goals into technology blueprints.
Facilitate cross-unit collaboration to identify shared platforms and services.
Provide executive-level updates on technology roadmaps, architecture decisions, and risk posture.
Monitor 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.
Lead large-scale transformation initiatives and manage organizational change.