Full Stack Technical Lead - Japan

Job Description Summary:

The Coca-Cola Company is evolving into a more digital-first, data-driven enterprise to fuel sustainable growth, increase speed to market,and unlock new sources of value. Rapid advances in technology, data, and AI create a unique opportunity toaccelerate the The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC)system’s next chapter of growth by reimagining our core competitive advantages. Building ona strong foundationof modernized infrastructure, global digital experiences, early data capabilities, and proven use cases,we are nowshifting from early wins to scaled, end to end impact on growth, productivity, and efficiency.

This next phase moves us from an analog world to a fully digitized one,powered by a digital growth engine that embeds data, technology, and AI into our most critical business domains. Success willrequiremore than technology implementation, it demands a strategic transformation of core capabilities, adomain based, product centric operating model, and a cultural shift toward experimentation, data and technology fluency, and seamless partnership between business and digital teams.

Job Description Summary

The Senior Manager, Full Stack Engineerplays a critical role in building and scaling the Coke ON platform and related digital products and technology that power Coca-Cola's next phase of digital transformation. Reporting to the Senior Director, Technology Delivery Lead, this role combines hands-on technical leadership with product and engineering partnershipto deliver modern, scalable, and secure solutions that create measurable business value for Coke ON.

As Coca-Cola accelerates the adoption of data, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence across core business domains, this role helps design, develop, and evolve Coke ON and related enterprise applications that support end-to-end business processes, digital experiences, and data-driven decision making, collaborating closely with product managers, solution architects, data engineers, integration teams, cybersecurity specialists, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

Lead technical governance, solution review, and engineering alignment across Coke ON delivery partners and internal stakeholders.

• Provides end-to-end technical leadership across frontend and backend domains, ensuring solution feasibility, technical alignment, and deliveryquality across internal teams and implementation partners. Acts as the primary technical authority for feature-level design decisions, engineering trade-offs, and cross-vendor technical coordination.

• Technical ownership expands from engineering oversight to active cross-vendor technical governance. Acts as the neutral authority for FE-BE design decisions, implementation trade-offs, API usage patterns, performance considerations, and feasibility assessments where frontend and backend vendors have competing priorities.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, data, integration, and business teams to translate Coke ON requirements into high-quality technical solutions.

• Assess and validateapplication solution designs against architectural standards and delivery requirements.

• Establish and govern engineering quality expectations, testing standards, observability requirements, and delivery practices across vendors.

• Evaluate and guide the technical feasibility and integration approach for AI, analytics, automation, and emerging platform capabilities.

• Partner with cybersecurity and platform teams to ensure Coke ON applications meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance, and resilience.

• Identify, prioritize, and govern remediation of technical debt across vendor-delivered solutions.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps and engineering strategies that support Coke ON's future-state digital capabilities and business growth objectives.

• Lead technical investigations and coordinate resolution of complex cross-system issues involving multiple vendors and platforms.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve engineering efficiency and business outcomes for Coke ON.

Organizational Impact

• Directly shapes the reliability, performance, and scalability of the Coke ON platform serving JKOU consumers and bottler operations.

• Provides technical leadership, governance, and feasibility oversight for Coke ON feature delivery across vendors.

• Operates across product, architecture, data, integration, and cybersecurity functions within a matrixed technology organization.

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, learning, innovation, and engineering excellence across cross-functional Coke ON teams.

Innovation & Complexity

• Solvescomplex full-stack engineering challenges involving Coke ON's architecture, integrations, and distributed systems.

• Balances delivery speed with application quality, security, scalability, and long-term maintainability for Coke ON.

• Applies cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven design patterns to improve Coke ON's engineering efficiency and resilience.

• Identifiesand resolves complex technical challenges spanning multiple systems and platforms that support Coke ON.

Communication & Influence

• Communicates technical concepts and engineering tradeoffs clearlyto product, business, and technical stakeholders across the Coke ON organization.

• Influences engineering practices, architecture decisions, and development standards to improve Coke ON team effectiveness.

• Facilitates collaboration across product, architecture, data, integration, and cybersecurity teams.

• Builds trusted relationships across the Coca-Cola system to accelerate Coke ON's engineering delivery and adoption.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a relatedtechnical disciplineor experience.

• 5+ yearsof experience in software engineering, application development, full stack development, or related technology disciplines.

• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives within complex enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and guide frontend, backend, API, and platform solution designs, balancing business objectives, technical feasibility, scalability, and operational considerations.

• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and system integration patterns.

• Experience delivering consumer-facing digital products and enterprise applications using agile and product-centric delivery methodologies.

• Working knowledge of data platforms, analytics solutions, AI enablement, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Strong understanding of application security, identity management, privacy controls, and secure software development practices.

• Experience governing engineering quality, technical risk, technical debt, testing approaches, deploymentreadiness, and operational support models across multiple teams or vendors.

• Strong communicationand stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge assumptions, facilitatetechnical trade-off decisions, and explain complex concepts to both business and technical audiences.

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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.