Principal Enterprise Architect

Coke Florida is looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect based out of our Tampa location. We're currently looking for first shift, working Monday through Friday from 8:30AM-5PM.

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.

Key Accountability Bullets:

Overall

• 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

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• 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

Infrastructure Services (e.g. Network, Compute, Storage, Cloud, AI, Applications & 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.

Business Partnership & Governance

• 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.

Mentorship & Thought Leadership

• 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.

Key Goals/Metrics:

• 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.

Top 3 Competencies:

• Strategic thinking to ensure that overall architecture supports a scalable and reliable IT enterprise and is updated to maintain a future fit capability as technology changes.
• Collaboration/relationship skills across business units/affiliates and IT
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including in executive level reporting

• Technical leadership

Skills & Other Requirements

Qualified candidates must possess:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred) or equivalent experience

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.

Skills:

• 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.
• Preferred Certifications: TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, ITIL, or equivalent.

Additional Qualifications for success in this role:

• 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

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Coke Florida reserves the right to revise the job description at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed.

Employment with Coke Florida is at-will. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.