Senior Data Platform Owner

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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