Architect: Platform Pricing

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) presents an exciting opportunity for a Platform Architect: Pricing to join the Digital & Technology team at CCBA. The role will report to the relevant Digital Solutions, Commercial Technology, or Enterprise Architecture leadership function. CCBA is the 8th largest Coca-Cola authorised bottler in the world by revenue, and the largest on the continent. It accounts for over 40% of all Coca-Cola ready-to-drink beverages sold in Africa by volume. With over 14 000 employees in Africa, CCBA group services more than 800 000 customers with a host of international and local brands. CCBA group operates in 14 countries: South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi and the islands of Comoros and Mayotte.

The Platform Architect: Pricing is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the architecture of CCBA's pricing platforms and related technology ecosystems to support effective commercial pricing management, revenue growth, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. The role is accountable for establishing scalable, integrated, and secure pricing solutions that enable consistent pricing execution, reporting, analytics, and controls across the organisation.

• Pricing Solution Architecture : Design scalable and integrated pricing solution architectures aligned to business, report ing and cont rol requirements
• ERP & Systems Integration : Ensure seamless integration between pricing, finance, reporting, and operational systems.
• Pricing data & Reporting Architecture : Support reliable pricing reporting and analytics through effective data st ructures, integrations and platform design.
• Governance & Technical Standards : Define and maintain architecture standards,
  integration principles and technical governance for pricing solutions.
• Security & Compliance Enablement : Ensure solution design support pricing cont rols, audit requirements and regulatory compliance standards.
• Platform Optimisation & Scalabili ty : Identify and implement opportunities to improve pricing platform performance, scalability and resilience.
• People Management: engage, support and develop staff.
• Commercial Pricing Solution Enablement: Partner with Commercial, Finance and Digitalteams to evaluate pricing requirements, identify improvement opportunities, and designinnovative pricing solutions that improve revenue growth, operational efficiency, control and reporting.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Inf ormation Technology, Computer Science or related field
  or CA(SA)/CIMA/Hons degree in Finance or related field.
  
  Experience
  
  8-12 years’ e xp erie nce in fina nce & pricing systems.
  Experience in commercial pricing planning , execution & control.
  People management experience.
  
  Skills
  • Solution and enterprise architecture ERP and Pricing systems expertise
  • Systems integration and API design
  • Data and reporting architecture understanding
  • Governance and compliance awareness
  • Analyt ical and conceptual thinking
  • Technical documentation and standards development
  • Stakeholder engagement and communication
  • People Management