Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer - Fuelight
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Application and Machine Learning Engineer – Fuelight is a key member of the Product Engineering team within Coca-Cola’s Digital Product & Engineering organization of the Global Digital Network. The role reports to the Senior Director, Engineering Excellence Lead and advances Fuelight, a strategic resource-allocation and investment-optimization product. Fuelight combines business data, predictive models, optimization capabilities, scenario planning, and AI-enabled decision support to help teams across the Coca-Cola System make informed marketing, trade, and commercial investment decisions. This role combines software engineering, machine learning engineering, and AI product development to build scalable digital capabilities. Working with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Business Science teams, and Operating Unit stakeholders, the Senior Manager turns advanced analytical models into trusted, enterprise-grade applications that support business adoption and measurable value realization. The position helps expand Fuelight across markets, operating units, bottling partners, and business processes while improving usability, performance, and business value.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, application engineering, digital product development, or enterprise technology delivery.
- 4+ years of experience developing, deploying, and supporting machine learning or artificial intelligence solutions in production environments.
- Experience building cloud-native, data-intensive applications using modern engineering practices and scalable architectures.
- Strong expertise in machine learning engineering, predictive modeling, optimization techniques, and decision-support applications.
- Experience operationalizing machine learning solutions through MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, model monitoring, automated testing, and deployment automation.
- Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise application integration.
- Experience developing products that leverage advanced analytics, forecasting, optimization, recommendation engines, or scenario planning capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex analytical concepts into intuitive user-facing applications and digital experiences.
- Experience working within product-centric and Agile delivery models in cross-functional global teams.
- Knowledge of responsible AI, model explainability, governance frameworks, cybersecurity requirements, and data privacy principles.
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, data science, product management, and business functions.
- Demonstrated digital fluency, data literacy, and AI fluency, including the ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that create business value.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require Coca-Cola sponsorship to continue working legally in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting globally scaled digital products serving multiple markets, customer groups, or business functions is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and enhance Fuelight applications for investment optimization, resource allocation, scenario planning, and decision intelligence.
- Build and operationalize machine learning capabilities for predictive modeling, investment recommendations, performance evaluation, and optimization outcomes.
- Partner with Engineering teams to translate analytical models into production-grade digital products.
- Develop scalable application architectures to support Fuelight’s expansion across markets, operating units, bottling partners, and business processes.
- Create intuitive user experiences that help business users interpret model outputs, evaluate tradeoffs, and make informed decisions.
- Implement MLOps capabilities for model deployment, monitoring, governance, retraining, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Develop AI-enabled features that improve user productivity, accelerate insight generation, and support data-driven decision making.
- Integrate data products, forecasting capabilities, optimization engines, and business-rule frameworks into a unified product experience.
- Support explainable AI and model transparency, including features that help users understand drivers, assumptions, recommendations, and outcomes.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Commercial, Franchise, Revenue Growth Management, and Bottler stakeholders to deliver enhancements aligned with business priorities.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices to improve quality, reliability, maintainability, and development efficiency.
- Contribute to Fuelight’s long-term product vision by evaluating emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and engineering approaches.
- Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, responsible AI, and governance requirements.
- Partner with global teams to improve product performance, usability, adoption, scale, and business value realization.
Benefits
- A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits is offered, depending on the position.
- Annual incentive reference value of 15%.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
