Director Platform Engineering Jobs in Atlanta, GA

WhatYou'llDo for Us:

Engineering Leadership & Organizational Excellence

• Lead and develop high-performing, distributed platform and integration teams under the Product Operating Model, with clear accountability for platform and capability outcomes.

• Build empowered teams that own platform problems end to end, from configuration and build through integration, operation,and continuous improvement.

• Recruit, develop, andretaintop platform engineering and integration talent, including specialists across Adobe, Salesforce,and data/identity, creating a culture of technical excellence and accountability.

• Establish engineering and integration standards, operating rhythms,and accountability frameworks aligned to business outcomes, consistent with portfolio-wide direction set by the Head of Development.

Platform Ownership & Integration

• Own the fullAdobe Experience Cloud suite (AEM, Workfront, AJO, AEP, and related modules) and other enterpriseMarTechplatforms, including roadmap, configuration, upgrades, licensing posture,and overall health.

• Oversee the products and capabilities built on these platforms, ensuring they are delivered with quality, reliability,and speed and meet marketing and business needs.

• Own theintegration layer: ensure clean, reliable, secure integration of these platforms with Coca-Cola's enterprise andMarTechsystems, including data, identity, consent,and API connectivity.

• Establish integration standards, reusable connectors,and API governance that reduce duplication and make the platform estate easier to extend andoperate.

• Ensure data governance, privacy,and consent are embedded across platforms and integrations, in line with enterprise and regulatory requirements.

Vendor & Commercial Platform Management

• Manage relationships with strategic platform vendors, holding them accountable for value, roadmap alignment,and service quality.

• Balance build vs.configurevs. buy decisions across the platform estate with a long-term, total-cost-of-ownership view.

• Partner with Product, Marketing, Architecture and Security to align platform capabilities to business priorities and to sequence investments sensibly.

Technical Strategy & Architecture Leadership

• Define and evolve the technical and integration architecturerequiredto run theMarTechplatform estate ata global scale, with a focus on interoperability, reuse,and maintainability.

• Provide architectural guidance and technical oversight for critical platform and integration investments, staying close enough to the technology to lead by substance.

• Drive an API-first, event-driven integration approach across Adobe, Salesforce,and enterprise systems, minimizing point-to-point complexity and technical debt.

• Ensure platforms and integrations are designed for scale, resiliency, security,and long-term sustainability, balancing delivery speed with operational stability.

Generative AI & Platform AI Enablement

• Champion the adoption ofGenerative AI and the native AI capabilities of the platforms(e.g., Adobe and Salesforce AI features) to improve how products are built,integratedandoperated, and to lift developer and marketer productivity.

• Define and execute an AI enablement roadmap for the platform estate, advancing from AI-assisted workflows toward AI-enabled delivery and operations over time.

Engagement & Strategic Influence

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior business and technology leaders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business implications.

• Communicate engineering strategy, risks, tradeoffs,and investment needs to executive stakeholders with clarity and credibility.

• Influence enterprise technology direction, ensuring alignment across product engineering, enterprise architecture,and business strategy, andparticipatein executive planning cycles.

Operational Excellence & Engineering Effectiveness

• Establish outcome-focused engineering metrics,including system reliability, deployment frequency, cycle time, and business impact.

• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including continuous delivery, automated testing, observability,and platform engineering.

• Ensure operational stability, resilience,and scalability of critical systems, partnering with Tech Operations on reliability and incident prevention.

• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership,and continuous improvement across the organization.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Leadership & Product Model Experience

• 10+ years of progressive technology experience across engineering and enterprise platforms, including senior leadership roles and hands-on platform/integration delivery.

• 5+ years leading platform or engineering teams within a Product Operating Model or equivalent modern product-centric environment.

• 5+ years leading platform modernization,migrationor transformation efforts.

• 5+ years building and scaling high-performing teams, including leading other leaders (managers and directors).

• Strong partnership experience with Product Management, Marketing and Product Design in empowered team environments.

Technical Depth

• Deepexpertiseacross enterpriseMarTechplatforms, with hands-on depth inAdobe Experience Cloud (AEM, AEP, AJO, Workfront), Salesforce, and consent/privacy platforms, with theability to engage credibly on configuration, architecture,and integration tradeoffs.

• Strong command of integration architecture: API-first and event-driven patterns, identity and data integration, and enterprise system connectivity

• Track recorddelivering and operating complex, enterprise-scaleplatformand integration estates, ideally inMarTech/ AdTech and consumer-facing environments.

Communication & Leadership Presence

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to seniorleadersand business stakeholders, and to influence enterprise technology strategy.

• Strong business acumen connecting engineering investments to measurable business outcomes.

• A calm, steady leadership style that brings clarity under pressure and earns trust across multiple distributed, multi-vendor teams.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science,or a related fieldrequired; advanced degree preferred.An equivalent combination of relevant education, training,anddemonstratedprofessional experience will also be considered.

WhatWe'llDo for You

• Exposure to World-Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders will expand your network and expose you toemergingtechnologies and techniques.

• Global Connections: Allows you to develop,enhanceandmaintainglobal connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.

• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile,with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate, and innovate