Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer - Fuelight

Job Description Summary: Role Overview   The Senior Manager, Application and Machine Learning Engineer   –   Fuelight , is a key member of the Product Engineering team within the Digital Product & Engineering organization of the Global Digital Network and reports to the Senior Director, Engineering Excellence Lead.     This role is responsible for advancing   Fuelight , Coca ‑ Cola’s strategic resource allocation and investment optimization product, which enables more informed marketing, trade, and commercial investment decisions through advanced analytics, machine learning, scenario planning, and AI-enabled decision support.   Fuelight   is designed as an always-on, globally scalable digital product that integrates diverse business data, predictive models, optimization capabilities, and decision intelligence into a unified experience for teams across the Coca ‑ Cola System.    ​ The role combines modern software engineering, machine learning engineering, and AI product development expertise to build scalable digital capabilities that help business users understand performance drivers, evaluate investment tradeoffs, simulate future scenarios, and optimize resource allocation decisions. Working closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Business Science teams, and Operating Unit stakeholders, this leader will help transform advanced analytical models into trusted, enterprise-grade applications that drive business adoption and measurable value realization.   What You will do for us   Design, develop, and enhance   Fuelight   applications that enable investment optimization, resource allocation, scenario planning, and decision intelligence across the Coca ‑ Cola System.   Build and operationalize machine learning capabilities that support predictive modeling, investment recommendations, performance evaluation, and optimization outcomes.   Partner with Engineering teams to translate analytical models into production-grade digital products.   Develop scalable application architectures that support   Fuelight’s   continued expansion across markets, operating units, bottling partners, and business processes.   Create intuitive user experiences that enable business users to interpret model outputs, evaluate tradeoffs, and make informed decisions with confidence.   Implement   MLOps   capabilities that enable model deployment, monitoring, governance, retraining, observability, and lifecycle management.   Develop AI-enabled features that improve user productivity, accelerate insight generation, and support data-driven decision making.   Integrate complex data products, forecasting capabilities, optimization engines, and business-rule frameworks into a unified product experience.   Support explainable AI and model transparency initiatives, including features that help users understand drivers, assumptions, recommendations, and outcomes.   Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing,…