Full Stack Technical Lead - Japan

The Senior Manager, Full Stack Engineer plays a critical role in building and scaling the Coke ON platform and related digital products and technology that power Coca-Cola's next phase of digital transformation. Reporting to the Senior Director, Technology Delivery Lead, this role combines hands-on technical leadership with product and engineering partnership to deliver modern, scalable, and secure solutions that create measurable business value for Coke ON. 

As Coca-Cola accelerates the adoption of data, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence across core business domains, this role helps design, develop, and evolve Coke ON and related enterprise applications that support end-to-end business processes, digital experiences, and data-driven decision making, collaborating closely with product managers, solution architects, data engineers, integration teams, cybersecurity specialists, and business stakeholders. 

Responsibilities include: 
Lead technical governance, solution review, and engineering alignment across Coke ON delivery partners and internal stakeholders. 

• Provides end-to-end technical leadership across frontend and backend domains, ensuring solution feasibility, technical alignment, and delivery quality across internal teams and implementation partners. Acts as the primary technical authority for feature-level design decisions, engineering trade-offs, and cross-vendor technical coordination. 

• Technical ownership expands from engineering oversight to active cross-vendor technical governance. Acts as the neutral authority for FE–BE design decisions, implementation trade-offs, API usage patterns, performance considerations, and feasibility assessments where frontend and backend vendors have competing priorities. 

• Collaborate with product, architecture, data, integration, and business teams to translate Coke ON requirements into high-quality technical solutions. 

• Assess and validate application solution designs against architectural standards and delivery requirements. 

• Establish and govern engineering quality expectations, testing standards, observability requirements, and delivery practices across vendors. 

• Evaluate and guide the technical feasibility and integration approach for AI, analytics, automation, and emerging platform capabilities. 

• Partner with cybersecurity and platform teams to ensure Coke ON applications meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, compliance, and resilience. 

• Identify, prioritize, and govern remediation of technical debt across vendor-delivered solutions. 

• Contribute to technical roadmaps and engineering strategies that support Coke ON's future-state digital capabilities and business growth objectives. 

• Lead technical investigations and coordinate resolution of complex cross-system issues involving multiple vendors and platforms. 

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve engineering efficiency and business outcomes for Coke ON. 
   

Organizational Impact 

• Directly shapes the reliability, performance, and scalability of the Coke ON platform serving JKOU consumers and bottler operations. 

• Provides technical leadership, governance, and feasibility oversight for Coke ON feature delivery across vendors. 

• Operates across product, architecture, data, integration, and cybersecurity functions within a matrixed technology organization. 

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, learning, innovation, and engineering excellence across cross-functional Coke ON teams. 

Innovation & Complexity 

• Solves complex full-stack engineering challenges involving Coke ON's architecture, integrations, and distributed systems. 

• Balances delivery speed with application quality, security, scalability, and long-term maintainability for Coke ON. 

• Applies cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven design patterns to improve Coke ON's engineering efficiency and resilience. 

• Identifies and resolves complex technical challenges spanning multiple systems and platforms that support Coke ON. 

Communication & Influence 

• Communicates technical concepts and engineering tradeoffs clearly to product, business, and technical stakeholders across the Coke ON organization. 

• Influences engineering practices, architecture decisions, and development standards to improve Coke ON team effectiveness. 

• Facilitates collaboration across product, architecture, data, integration, and cybersecurity teams. 

• Builds trusted relationships across the Coca-Cola system to accelerate Coke ON's engineering delivery and adoption. 

Experience & Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline or experience. 

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, full stack development, or related technology disciplines. 

• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives within complex enterprise environments. 

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and guide frontend, backend, API, and platform solution designs, balancing business objectives, technical feasibility, scalability, and operational considerations. 

• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and system integration patterns. 

• Experience delivering consumer-facing digital products and enterprise applications using agile and product-centric delivery methodologies. 

• Working knowledge of data platforms, analytics solutions, AI enablement, and enterprise integration patterns. 

• Strong understanding of application security, identity management, privacy controls, and secure software development practices. 

• Experience governing engineering quality, technical risk, technical debt, testing approaches, deployment readiness, and operational support models across multiple teams or vendors. 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge assumptions, facilitate technical trade-off decisions, and explain complex concepts to both business and technical audiences.