Platform Architect: Data & Analystics
The Coca-Cola Company · Gauteng
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- Coca-Cola Beverages Africa CCBA presents an exciting opportunity for a Platform Architect to join the Digital & Technology team at CCBA. The role will report to the relevant Data, Analytics, or Enterprise Architecture leadership function.
- The Platform Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the enterprise data architecture that enables reliable, secure, and scalable reporting, analytics, business intelligence, and data-driven decision-making across the organisation. The role is accountable for establishing integrated data platforms and architectures that support business operations, strategic insights, regulatory compliance, and future digital transformation initiatives.
- The incumbent will work closely with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, data engineers, analytics teams, and technology partners to design and maintain enterprise data models, integration frameworks, cloud-based data platforms, and analytics ecosystems. The role is responsible for ensuring seamless integration across enterprise applications, data sources, and reporting platforms while promoting data quality, governance, security, and architectural standards.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Enterprise Data Architecture : Design scalable and integrated data architectures aligned to enterprise reporting, analytics and business intelligence requirements.
- Data Platform Integration : Ensure seamless integration between enterprise systems, data sources and analytics platforms.
- Analytics & Reporting Enablement : Support effective analytics and reporting capabilities through optimised data structures, models and platform design.
- Governance & Technical Standards : Define and maintain architecture standards, data governance principles and technical frameworks for enterprise data platforms.
- Security, Compliance & Reliability : Ensure data platforms support security, compliance, resilience and business continuity requirements.
- Platform Optimisation & Innovation : Identify opportunities to modernise and optimise data platforms, integrations and analytics capabilities.
- Enterprise data architecture.
- Data platform and integration design.
- Cloud and analytics platform architecture.
- Data governance and security alignment.
- Reporting and analytics enablement architecture.
- Technical standards and architecture governance.
- Platform scalability and optimisation.
Skills, Experience & Education Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Engineering or related field.
- Architecture or cloud platform certifications advantageous.
Experience
- 8-12 years' experience in enterprise data architecture or analytics platform roles.
- Experience with cloud, data warehouse and analytics technologies.
- Experience designing integrated enterprise data ecosystems.
- FMCG or enterprise operational environment experience advantageous.
Skills
- MS Azure Technology and Microsoft Fabric knowledge.
- Enterprise data architecture.
- Cloud and analytics platform understanding.
- Systems integration and API design.
- Data modelling and governance awareness.
- Technical documentation and standards development.
- Analytical and conceptual thinking.
- Stakeholder engagement and communication.
- Problem solving and innovation orientation.
Deadline:24th September,2026