Principal Enterprise Architect

Coke Florida Careers•Tampa, FL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Enterprise Architect is responsible for enabling the technology vision, define architectural standards, and drive digital transformation by ensuring systems and technology decisions drive secure business value, scalability, resiliency, and future-proof supporting and leading the design, alignment, and governance of enterprise architecture strategy across our business units and affiliates (which encompasses a multi-company/division organization for a variety of businesses and business models). This role is accountable for shaping the long-term architecture vision for applications, enterprise platforms, services, and associated IT infrastructure. The role requires someone who can analyze trends, signals and disruptors in technology to improve the enterprise architecture to take advantage of them to meet ever evolving business needs. The Principal Enterprise Architect will serve as a trusted advisor to executives and IT leadership, bridging strategy and execution while leading cross-functional architecture efforts that unify business needs with technical capabilities. This role involves overseeing the architecture for enterprise-level systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred) or equivalent experience
12+ years in IT with 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.
Ability to translate complex technology into clear business value.
Strong governance and decision-making capabilities.
Track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
Experience with AI and its use in infrastructure.
Results Oriented - Self-motivated driving through obstacles to accomplish objectives with a bias for action resulting in a strong track record of delivering results
Strategic thinking and the ability to develop and implement strategic plans that align with business objectives and business cases.
Collaboration & Teamwork - Able to create effective working relationships with a strong sense of commitment to a course of action holding people accountable while maintaining positive working relationships
Prioritization - Ability to prioritize multiple objectives/goals based on opportunities and situations needed to deliver the business results, and can anticipate adjustments that may be needed to resolve issues and obstacles
Interpersonal skills - Able to successfully engage and work with all levels of the organization and external partners through effective communication, written and verbal skills
Experience in leading and managing change within an organization
Exhibit professional maturity - respecting other’s roles and opinions, keeping personal opinions at minimum about products and programs, speaking up at meetings with pertinent, relevant input, engaging and open body language, staying engaged during meetings

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree
Preferred Certifications: TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, ITIL, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the overarching enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring technology investments directly support long-term business goals
Establish and enforce design standards, policies, and frameworks for data, security, infrastructure, and application development
In partnership with IT leadership, establish KPIs and performance metrics, generate reports and dashboards for insights, and monitor market trends.
Ensure that all technology solutions, platforms, and associated 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 (e.g., cloud migration, data modernization) to drive innovation in support of business goals
Generate reports and dashboards for insights, performance, and operations
Own the enterprise architecture framework across the organization and partner with business units, balancing global standards with business-specific requirements.
Define and/or support multi-year roadmaps for applications, platforms, and networks, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.
Establish and enforce architecture principles, patterns, and standards to drive consistency, interoperability, and cost optimization.
Lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB) 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 the adoption and integration of cloud applications (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and enterprise network, cyber security, data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) architectures to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performing operations
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.
Stay ahead of industry trends in cloud, network, and platform evolution, recommend adoption strategies.
Represent enterprise architecture in executive forums, vendor discussions, and strategic initiatives.
Develop and maintain the overall enterprise architecture and long-term vision/strategy for solutioning, including associated system landscapes and diagrams.
Develop and publish architectural standards.