Software Engineering Group Manager

Summary: Digital products play   a central role   in how we create value for customers, support the teams who serve them, and shape the consumer experience.     Our   P roduct   and   E ngineering   organization s   bring together small, empowered teams that move with clarity, speed, and purpose , e nabling digital to be a meaningful source of advantage across   Coca-Cola’s North America Operating Unit .   Our work spans customer journeys, service delivery, sales workflows, and the platforms that   connect   them. We are raising our standards for product craft and rebuilding the systems behind these experiences.     As a Software Engineering Group Manager, you will lead multiple engineers across full stack, front end, and   back-end   disciplines to deliver customer-facing and internal products in a product operating model. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Architecture to shape strategy, build durable platforms, and deliver measurable outcomes.   This role is for leaders who can grow strong teams, raise engineering standards, and guide technical direction   -   while staying close enough to the work to make sound architectural and delivery decisions.

At Coca-Cola, engineers have the opportunity to build products at meaningful scale—shaping the digital experiences, platforms, and intelligent systems that power how we serve customers, enable field teams and partners, support sales, and drive transaction growth across one of the world’s most recognized brands. Depending on the team, you could work on connected service tools that improve resolution speed and reliability, data and API platforms that unlock growth and decisioning, customer and operational experiences that reduce friction across workflows, or sales products that equip teams with better visibility, insights, and execution capabilities. This is a chance to join at a pivotal moment: helping define modern engineering practices, influence product direction, and build high-impact solutions in empowered, cross-functional teams where your work directly connects to business performance and customer outcomes     How We Work   You’ll   be part of a dedicated, cross-functional team (Product, Design, Engineering) that is:   Empowered to solve problems, not just build features   Accountable for outcomes, not output   Collaborative by default, from discovery through delivery   Continuously learning, using data and customer insight to improve     Key Responsibilities   Manage and coach a group of full stack, front end, and   back-end   engineers through   technical leadership and professional development   Play a key role in building out your Software Engineering Team ;    Bring a   strong technical perspective to help the team   identify   what is   feasible , what is valuable, and what is worth building   Challenge assumptions and propose alternative solutions that are simpler, faster, or more impactful   Partner with Product Management and Design to frame problems, define outcomes, and translate strategy into an executable roadmap   Align cross-team dependencies and coordinate delivery across multiple services and applications   Communicate status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders; make decisions that   optimize   for customer and business impact   Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and cost   Ensure alignment with broader platform and enterprise architecture where appropriate   Guide architecture and technical direction across front end, back end, and platform capabilities; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable   Partner with Data Engineering and Data   Analytics   to enable reliable data products, feature pipelines, and ML-powered experiences where they create measurable value   Establish engineering standards for APIs, UI architecture, data contracts, and   eventing ; ensure