At The Coca-Cola Company, our vision is to craft brands and choices people love while refreshing the world in more ways than ever before. Data and intelligence are at the heart of how we understand consumers, accelerate growth, and create a more connected enterprise. The Senior Manager – Ontology and Graph Modeling play a pivotal role in building the semantic foundations that drive consistent, trusted, and actionable data across our global system. This role will be part of a forward-looking Data Engineering and Platforms team, enabling scalable use of trusted data, advanced analytics, and knowledge graphs to power decision-making.
Semantic clarity is essential for interoperability across markets, AI models, and platforms. This role will drive the creation of a governed semantic and graph foundation that connects fragmented data sources and enables agents, copilots, analytics, and operational decision-making. This is an individual contributor role focused on hands-on technical leadership, solution design, and delivery excellence rather than direct people management.
Lead the design, development, and maintenance of enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and graph models to enable semantic consistency and interoperability.
Define modeling standards, reusable patterns, and implementation strategies for ontologies, entity relationships, upper ontology concepts, and property graph structures.
Integrate graph solutions with enterprise data stores, APIs, MCP servers, and related technologies to meet stakeholder needs.
Use LLMs, GenAI, rules engines, reusable frameworks, and automation utilities to curate, build, adapt, and evolve the corporate ontology catalog.
Implement semantic validation, formal reasoning, and performance monitoring frameworks to ensure model correctness, scalability, auditability and reliability.
Design semantic layers that explicitly bind underlying physical data tables to the enterprise ontology, ensuring autonomous agents and subagents are grounded in deterministic business logic rather than probabilistic LLM outputs.
Develop context-injection and semantic routing patterns that allow multi-agent systems to securely query and traverse the knowledge graph for complex, multistep reasoning and planning.
Establish the graph model as the foundational long-term memory and context engine for enterprise copilots, enabling agents to maintain state and context across disjointed user sessions.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information science, library science, ontology, semantics, computational linguistics, computer science, or related field.
Ability to develop and implement ontologies and data models in collaboration with stakeholders across data management, search, product management, machine learning, and other enterprise initiatives.
3+ years of experience with knowledge graph technologies such as RDF, OWL, SHACL, SKOS, LPG, and SPARQL.
At least 2 years of experience or training with ontology and linked data tools such as Protégé, TopQuadrant, Stardog, Jena, or Data.World.
Familiarity with enterprise ontology management suites and governance frameworks, including Knowledge Graph (organizational, GraphRAG, Query/Traversal) patterns.
Hands-on experience integrating knowledge graphs with LLM orchestration and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel) to build productiongrade GraphRAG pipelines.
Proficiency in hybrid retrieval strategies, combining vector embeddings with graph traversals to optimize agent context windows.
Familiarity with exposing graph traversal functions as distinct 'tools' or 'skills' for LLM tool-calling (e.g., via OpenAI function calling or MCP servers).
Experience with Palantir, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry.
The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.
Pay Range:
United States of America: 152,000 USD - 178,300 USD
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s):
United States of America
City/Cities:
Atlanta
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
August 14, 2026
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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Pay Range:United States of America: 0 USD - 0 USD
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Long-term Incentive Reference Value Percentage:0 - 20
Long-term Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role.
