What you’ll do
* Owning the platform strategy and roadmap – Lead the evolution of our Azure Databricks-based platform into a scalable, secure, and future‑ready capability
* Defining standards and reusable patterns – Establish best practices across ingestion, modelling, governance, and platform engineering. Drive consistency, reuse, and reduced duplication across teams
* Driving adoption and experience – Enable teams to easily build, access, and reuse trusted data products. Improve onboarding, documentation, and platform usability
* Partnering across technology and business – Work closely with architecture, engineering, security, and product teams. Ensure alignment to enterprise strategy and business priorities
* Improving reliability, quality, and cost efficiency – Lead initiatives in observability, governance, and performance optimisation. Ensure the platform is resilient, trusted, and cost‑effective
Who you are
* Proven experience leading or owning enterprise data platforms (e.g. Data Platform Lead, Senior Data Architect, or similar)
* Strong expertise in Azure Databricks and modern data architectures
* Experience defining and embedding platform standards, governance, and reusable patterns
* Comfortable operating in agile, product‑led environments, working across multiple teams
* Highly credible technically – able to challenge designs, guide engineers, and simplify complexity
* Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
Benefits
* Share ownership in Coca‑Cola through Share Investment Plan (SIP)
* An annual discretionary bonus scheme, based on business results and individual contribution
* A smart pension that matches up to 10% of your contributions
* Financial support fund for unexpected financial pressure
* 50% discount in all Costa‑owned stores, 25% off in other participating stores
* Private medical cover through Private Healthcare scheme
Location
Right now, our Support Centre teams work flexibly, blending home working with in‑person time whenever it matters most. We’re moving into a new home for our brand in St Albans in January 2027. Support Centre teams will work three days a week in‑person to collaborate and bring our ambition to life.
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