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About the Role
The Director, Solution Architect owns the architectural vision and standards for the Coke ON platform, including API design, non-functional requirements, and security principles. This role sets the technical direction for the platform's next phase of growth, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, aligned with enterprise standards, and capable of supporting future business capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the end-to-end target architecture for Coke ON across mobile, backend, data, integration, cloud and consumer engagement capabilities.
- Act as the client-side architecture authority across Coke ON's multi-partner delivery ecosystem, governing architecture boundaries, technical standards and cross-partner decisions.
- Define domain boundaries and modular architecture enabling Core, Personalization, Loyalty, Fun & Play, Omnichannel and other capabilities to evolve independently behind well-defined interfaces.
- Set and govern API, event and data-contract standards, including versioning, compatibility, synchronous/asynchronous patterns and integration lifecycle management.
- Own measurable architecture NFRs covering scalability, resilience, performance, security, privacy, DR, observability and transaction integrity.
- Lead architecture for the Coke ON 2.0 → 3.0 transition, including coexistence, migration and preservation of consumer identity, value, entitlements and history.
- Ensure the platform supports personalization, experimentation and measurement by design, including event instrumentation, experiment assignment and outcome measurement.
- Evaluate technology and architecture choices across GCP, data, MarTech, AI and emerging capabilities, balancing enterprise standards with justified Japan-specific requirements.
- Own architecture decision records, technical exceptions and architecture risk escalation, balancing business value, cost, security, time-to-market and long-term maintainability.
- Provide architecture assurance throughout build, integration and production readiness and ensure vendor solutions conform to the agreed target architecture.
- Represent Coke ON architecture with CCJC/TCCC technology, security and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on software engineering and solution/platform architecture experience, including demonstrated ownership of architecture decisions for large-scale production systems.
- Deep expertise in cloud architecture, API design, security principles, and non-functional requirements.
- Experience guiding platform modernization or re-architecture programs.
- Familiarity with data platforms, personalization engines, and AI-enabled services preferred.
- Track record of representing architecture decisions to senior/executive stakeholders and cross-functional governance bodies.
- Business-level English required; Japanese proficiency preferred.
Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Business Process Modeling
- Change Management
- Cloud Platform
- Communication
- Data Flow Diagram
- DevOps
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Architecture Framework
- Microsoft Azure Databricks
- Microsoft Office
- User Experience (UX)
Location
- Japan
- Tokyo
Work Type
- 00% - 25% Travel
Experience Level
- Senior Technical Authority
About the Company
- 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.
- JKOU is transforming Coke ON from a vending loyalty app into an omnichannel consumer engagement platform — personalizing rewards and content at the individual user level, expanding loyalty beyond vending, gamifying the experience, and building brand-led communities.
- 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.