COKE

Senior Director, Cloud Architecture

Bulgaria · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerCOKE
LocationBulgaria
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted8 Oct 2026

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Director, Cloud Architecture plays a critical role in enabling Coca‑Cola’s digital transformation by ensuring that cloud architecture decisions are optimized for business value, cost efficiency, and scalability. Reporting into theSenior Director,Global Cloud Platforms, this role connects architecture strategy with financial accountability, ensuring that cloud platforms deliver measurable outcomes aligned with enterprise priorities.

This leader is responsible for integrating financial operations (FinOps) principles into cloud architecture, enabling transparency, governance, and optimization across cloud investments. The role ensures that architecture design, platform standardization, and engineering practices are closely aligned with cost efficiency, performance, and sustainability objectives.

Working across a highly matrixed global organization, the Senior Director partners with platform engineering, finance, Digital Product, Data & AI, and Operating Units to embed cost‑aware decision‑making into architecture practices. This role drives the adoption of standardized, reusable, and scalable cloud solutions while ensuring that financial discipline is embedded into the digital growth engine.

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This position influences enterprise‑wide behaviors around cloud consumption, cost accountability, and value realization, ensuring that cloud is not only a technology enabler but a strategic driver of productivity, efficiency, and innovation.

Key responsibilities:

Own the enterprise Cloud FinOps strategy, operating model, governance, and maturity roadmap across all cloud platforms and business domains.

Lead enterprise cloud budgeting, forecasting, showback, chargeback, and cloud investment planning processes.

Provide executive-level reporting and insights on cloud spend, ROI, business value realization, and optimization opportunities.

Partner with Finance and Cloud Platform teams to drive cost transparency, forecasting, and financial accountability across cloud environments

Ensure that architecture decisions support effective cost management practices, including right‑sizing, workload optimization, and lifecycle management

Collaborate with Digital Product and engineering teams to embed cost‑aware design principles into cloud‑native architectures and development practices

Guide the design of scalable and efficient cloud solutions that balance innovation with financial discipline and operational efficiency

Support global cloud governance by ensuring alignment between architecture standards, cost controls, and enterprise policies

Drive adoption of standardized, reusable architecture patterns that reduce duplication and improve cost efficiency across business units

Develop optimization strategies for AI, machine learning, analytics, and high-performance computing workloads to balance innovation with cost efficiency.

Lead cloud commercial optimization strategies withhyperscalersand technology partners, including commitment management, reserved capacity planning, enterprise agreements, consumption incentives, and contract optimization.

Lead cross‑functional initiatives to improve cloud cost optimization maturity, tooling, and reporting across the enterprise

Build organizational capability by promoting awareness and adoption of FinOps practices among architects, engineers, and product teams

Requirements & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related field;Master’sdegree preferred

10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud platforms, or enterprise technology roles with exposure to financial management of technology investments.FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP), FinOps Certified Professional (FOCP), or equivalent cloud financial management certifications preferred.

Proven experience integrating cost management or FinOps practices into cloud or technology environmentsestablishing accountability frameworks and KPIs for cloud consumption, optimization, and value realization.

Strong expertise in cloud architecture principles, including scalability, performance, resilience, and cost optimization

Experience managing cloud spend portfolios exceeding enterprise-scale technology investments.

Experienceinhybrid and multi-cloudenvironmentsat enterprise scale(SAP Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)

Solid understanding of cloud financial management concepts, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and value realization

Experience collaborating with Finance, Procurement, and Technology teams to align investments with business outcomes.

Experience optimizing cloud economics for Data platforms, AI services, GPU consumption, and advanced analytics environments.

Strong understanding of governance, compliance, and risk considerations in cloud environments

Proven ability to influence decision‑making across cross‑functional teams in a matrixed organization

Drive automation of cloud governance and optimization recommendations using policy-as-code, intelligent insights, and self-service capabilities.

High level of digital and data fluency, including familiarity with analytics, automation, and AI‑driven workloads

Reporting relationship

Role reports to Senior Director, Global Cloud Platforms

Location

Atlanta

Skills:

Location(s):

Bulgaria

City/Cities:

Sofia

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Job Posting End Date:

October 15, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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