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About the Role
The Director, Data Engineering owns the data engineering function for the Japan & South Korea Operating Unit, leading the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise data platforms and pipelines. The role translates data strategy into scalable engineering roadmaps, builds and leads a data engineering team, and represents data engineering in OU data governance forums. The Director ensures platforms are reliable, automated, and engineered for scale, enabling trusted, high-quality data across the organization's most critical business domains.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead ETL and data pipeline engineering, setting technical direction and engineering standards.
- Translate data strategy into scalable engineering roadmaps, technical designs, and multi-year platform plans.
- Design, build, and operate enterprise data platforms in alignment with global architecture standards, ensuring scalability and resilience.
- Automate data pipelines and operations to maximize reliability and minimize manual effort.
- Ensure CI/CD reliability, platform performance, and engineering excellence across the data estate.
- Integrate local and system data sources, including bottler and partner data, into governed platforms.
- Partner with data science, governance, and product management to deliver end-to-end data products.
- Manage vendor engineering resources and partnerships, ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery accountability.
- Build, lead, and develop a data engineering team, fostering technical excellence and career growth.
- Represent data engineering in OU data governance forums, advocating for platform standards, data quality, and architectural integrity.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, including ETL/ELT, data platforms, and pipeline operations, with demonstrated progression into leadership.
- Proven experience building and leading data engineering teams.
- Strong proficiency in modern data stacks (cloud data platforms, orchestration, CI/CD).
- Experience designing scalable data architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
- Experience representing engineering functions in governance or architecture review forums.
- Experience with vendor management and Agile delivery.
- Business-level English required.
- Japanese proficiency preferred.
Skills
- Data Engineering
- ETL/ELT
- Data Platforms
- Pipeline Operations
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Orchestration
- CI/CD
- Data Architecture
- Vendor Management
- Agile Delivery
Location
- Japan
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- Leadership
About the Company
- The Coca-Cola Company is evolving into a 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 to accelerate the KO system's next chapter of growth by reimagining our core competitive advantages.
- Building on a strong foundation of modernized infrastructure, global digital experiences, early data capabilities, and proven use cases, we are now shifting 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 will require more than technology implementation — it demands a strategic transformation of core capabilities, a domain-based, product-centric operating model, and a cultural shift toward experimentation, data and technology fluency, and seamless partnership between business and digital teams.
- 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.