Principal Enterprise Architect

About Us

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC (Coke Florida) is a family-owned independent Coca-Cola bottler that is the third largest privately-held and the sixth largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. Coke Florida sells, markets, manufactures and distributes over 600 products of The Coca-Cola Company and other partner companies including Monster Beverage Corporation and BODYARMOR. In 2026, for the 5th year in a row, Coke Florida was named as a US Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, recognizing outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams in strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture, and governance/financial performance.

What We Offer

• Total Wellness Programs including health, dental and vision plans
• 401K program with healthy company match
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Three weeks of vacation pay, and 10 company paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Competitive compensation

About the Role

The Principal Enterprise Architect is responsible for enabling the technology vision, defining architectural standards, and driving digital transformation by ensuring systems and technology decisions drive secure business value, scalability, resiliency, and future-proofing. This role supports and leads the design, alignment, and governance of enterprise architecture strategy across business units and affiliates (encompassing a multi-company/division organization for various businesses and business models). The role is accountable for shaping the long-term architecture vision for applications, enterprise platforms, services, and associated IT infrastructure. The Principal Enterprise Architect will analyze trends, signals, and disruptors in technology to improve the enterprise architecture and meet evolving business needs. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executives and IT leadership, bridging strategy and execution while leading cross-functional architecture efforts that unify business needs with technical capabilities.

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM (first shift), based out of our Tampa location.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the overarching enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring technology investments directly support long-term business goals.
• Establish and enforce design standards, policies, and frameworks for data, security, infrastructure, and application development.
• In partnership with IT leadership, establish KPIs and performance metrics, generate reports and dashboards for insights, and monitor market trends.
• Ensure that all technology solutions, platforms, and associated processes comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams and junior architects.
• Research emerging technologies, conduct proof-of-concepts, and champion digital transformation initiatives (e.g., cloud migration, data modernization) to drive innovation in support of business goals.
• Own the enterprise architecture framework across the organization and partner with business units, balancing global standards with business-specific requirements.
• Define and/or support multi-year roadmaps for applications, platforms, and networks, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.
• Establish and enforce architecture principles, patterns, and standards to drive consistency, interoperability, and cost optimization.
• Lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and ensure projects adhere to enterprise design standards.
• Align technology investments with cloud strategies, hybrid models, and security frameworks.
• Drive automation, resilience, and monitoring standards across infrastructure platforms.
• Guide the adoption and integration of cloud applications (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and enterprise network, cyber security, data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) architectures to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performing operations.
• Define strategies for platform consolidation, modernization, and interoperability.
• Partner with application owners to rationalize the portfolio and reduce technical debt.
• Ensure data and application architectures support scalability, analytics, and compliance.
• Act as a strategic advisor to Technology tower leadership, translating goals into technology blueprints.
• Facilitate cross-unit collaboration to identify shared platforms and services.
• Provide executive-level updates on technology roadmaps, architecture decisions, and risk posture.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in cloud, network, and platform evolution, recommend adoption strategies.
• Represent enterprise architecture in executive forums, vendor discussions, and strategic initiatives.

Key Goals/Metrics

• Develop and maintain the overall enterprise architecture and long-term vision/strategy for solutioning, including associated system landscapes and diagrams.
• Develop and publish architectural standards.

Top Competencies

• Strategic thinking to ensure that overall architecture supports a scalable and reliable IT enterprise and is updated to maintain future-fit capability as technology changes.
• Collaboration and relationship skills across business units/affiliates and IT.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including executive-level reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred) or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in IT with 7+ years in enterprise or solution architecture.
• Proven architectural leadership across multi-business unit organizations.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms, enterprise platforms, and enterprise networking.
• Strong background in application integration, cloud adoption, and infrastructure design.

Skills

• Executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to translate complex technology into clear business value.
• Strong governance and decision-making capabilities.
• Track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Experience with AI and its use in infrastructure.
• Results-oriented, self-motivated with a bias for action and a strong track record of delivering results.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to develop and implement strategic plans that align with business objectives and business cases.
• Collaboration and teamwork with a strong sense of commitment to a course of action, holding people accountable while maintaining positive working relationships.
• Prioritization skills to manage multiple objectives/goals based on opportunities and situations needed to deliver business results.
• Interpersonal skills to successfully engage and work with all levels of the organization and external partners through effective communication, written and verbal.
• Experience in leading and managing change within an organization.
• Professional maturity, respecting others’ roles and opinions, keeping personal opinions minimal, speaking up at meetings with pertinent input, and exhibiting open body language.

Preferred Certifications

• TOGAF
• AWS/Azure Architect
• ITIL or equivalent