Senior Director, Cloud Architecture

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 the   Senior 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.   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.

Own the enterprise Cloud FinOps strategy, operating model, governance, and maturity roadmap across all cloud platforms and business domains.     Lead enterprise cloud budgeting, forecasting, show   back, 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 with   hyperscalers   and 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’s   degree 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