Director, Global CCL Data & Analytics Technologies Team Leader

The Coca-Cola Company is a 135+ years old total beverage company. More than 2.2 billion servings of drinks are enjoyed in more than 200 countries and territories each day.  Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future.  We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in support to enabling and growing our brand portfolio.

At The Coca-Cola Global Delivery Center in Sofia, we are excited to invite a talented expert for the position Director, Global CCL Data & Analytics Technologies Team Leader to join our team. This role gives you an unique opportunity to network with top data engineering professionals from around the world while upholding enterprise standards and industry best practices. In addition, you'll be encouraged and supported in exploring new technologies to consistently fine-tune your skills and stay updated with the latest industry advancements.

If you're eager to work with cutting-edge technology, possess a keen business instinct, and have a problem-solving aptitude coupled with software development skills and a bent for data engineering, we'd love to connect with you. Join us and make your mark on a leading global brand.

What You’ll Do for Us:   

• Be a Data and Analytics team leader, people and capacity manager. Own and lead the areas, products and processes in the scope of the team. Provide technical expertise and help, allocate resources and oversight of the expected results.
• Lead business and data analysis endeavors, efficiently translating business requirements and change requests into a designs for a comprehensive, efficient, stable, scalable and reusable solution. Act as a solution architect for the products.
• Spearhead the data modeling, development, and deployment including hand-on contribution when needed, with aim to be provided end-to-end Data and Analytics solutions. This includes ETL, data processing, data modeling, data visualization and analysis, interfaces to other systems, ensuring system robustness with guarantee that the delivered products meet the established conventions and security standards.
• Organize, oversee and participate in product operations and maintenance, performance tuning, testing, troubleshooting, and support – all in alignment with DevOps principles and supplemented by the delivery of technical documentation. Actively identify and address technical weaknesses, opportunities, and threats throughout the application purview.
• Foster a comprehensive understanding of the solutions, roadmaps, plans and strategies among team members and stakeholders while efficiently communicating the vision through technical materials, verbal presentations, and leading inter-team discussions.
• Be at the forefront of innovation, continuously contributing and assessing the impact of new ideas to ensure maximum value delivery by the team. Be in constant collaboration with other teams and realize the principles of a global network organization.

Qualifications & Requirements: 

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field is required
• A minimum of 8 years of demonstrable experience in designing and developing data and analytics solutions
• Master-level knowledge of Database Management Systems, Extraction, Transformation, and Load, and Online Analytical Processing principles and frameworks
• Experience with Spark and Big Data
• Experience in data reporting and visualization solutions, with a preference for proficiency in Microsoft Power BI
• At least 2 years of practical experience with Cloud development with preference to Azure services for data and analytics and especially Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL DB.
• Required Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification. Higher level certification is highly appreciated.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, behave proactively and innovate
• Possess an analytical mindset with demonstrated critical thinking and a strong aptitude for problem-solving
• Excellent communicator with the abilities in negotiation, customer and stakeholder management
• Experience with the Scrum framework for agile software development as well as DevOps principles
• People management experience is considered as a plus
• Technical Proficiencies:
  • Expertise in SQL, DAX, and Python is required
  • Hands-on experience in software development and data processing
  • Familiarity with PySpark, Power Apps, Power Automate, GitHub and Azure DevOps.
  • Knowledge of C#, Scala, JavaScript will be an added advantage
  • Web development skills shall be viewed as a bonus

What We Can Do for You: 

• Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques.
• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate and innovate.

* This will be a people leader role with direct reports.

Skills:

Leadership; Azure Synapse Analytics; Microsoft Azure; Structured Query Language (SQL); Software Development; Analytical Thinking; GitHub; Azure Data Lake; DAX Language; Data Modeling; Agile Methodology; Solution Architecture; Python (Programming Language); Data Analytics; Data Engineering; Big Data; Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI)