Principal Enterprise Architect

Coke Florida Careers • Tampa, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect based at its Tampa headquarters. The role enables the technology vision, defines architectural standards, and drives digital transformation by ensuring technology decisions support secure business value, scalability, resilience, and future needs across a multi-company and multi-division organization. The position shapes long-term architecture for applications, enterprise platforms, services, and IT infrastructure, and oversees architecture for enterprise-level systems.

The Principal Enterprise Architect serves as a trusted advisor to executives and IT leadership, connecting strategy with execution and leading cross-functional efforts that align business needs with technical capabilities. The role develops and governs enterprise architecture strategy across business units and affiliates, evaluates technology trends and emerging technologies, and guides initiatives such as cloud migration and data modernization.

The role also leads enterprise architecture governance, including the Architecture Review Board, and partners with business units and technology leaders on roadmaps, standards, platform strategy, infrastructure, risk, and transformation. It provides technical leadership and mentorship, communicates architecture decisions and roadmaps to executives, and promotes collaboration, consistency, interoperability, resilience, and cost optimization.

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.
• Results-oriented, self-motivated approach, with a bias for action and a track record of delivering results.
• Strategic thinking and ability to develop and implement plans aligned with business objectives and business cases.
• Ability to build effective working relationships, collaborate, and hold people accountable while maintaining positive relationships.
• Ability to prioritize multiple objectives, anticipate adjustments, and address issues and obstacles.
• Interpersonal skills to work effectively with all organizational levels and external partners through written and verbal communication.
• Professional maturity, including respect for others’ roles and opinions, providing relevant input, and staying engaged in meetings.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap and long-term technology vision, ensuring investments support business goals.
• Establish and enforce design standards, policies, frameworks, architecture principles, patterns, and standards for data, security, infrastructure, and application development.
• Partner with IT leadership to establish KPIs and performance metrics, and generate reports and dashboards for insights, performance, 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 organization-wide standards with business-specific needs.
• Define or support multi-year roadmaps for applications, platforms, and networks, aligned 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 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 and translate 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.
• 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.
• Lead and manage organizational change and large-scale transformation initiatives.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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