SAP/ERP Transformation - Lead Data Engineer

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Enterprise level technical leader who defines the vision, architecture, and operating model for data platforms and data products, enabling secure, scalable, and reliable data solutions that accelerate analytics, reporting, and machine learning across the business. This hands-on leader acts as a conduit between enterprise data engineering teams and the Transformation organization, remaining highly technical while building frameworks, guiding team direction, architecture, and best practices.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Set the north star data architecture (batch/streaming, lakehouse, MDM, governance) and establish actionable standards, guardrails, and reference implementations.

Establish product-oriented platform capabilities (self-service ingestion, transformation, orchestration, catalog/lineage, quality) and the internal tooling that enables scalable developer and analyst workflows. Define and drive automation standards, including CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for data platforms and services.

Guide cloud service integration and container/orchestration strategy where applicable, ensuring cost-effective scale and predictable performance.

Maintain and govern infrastructure as code practices (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) to standardize environments, reduce drift, and improve repeatability.

Collaborate with development teams to provide reusable infrastructure components, golden paths, and platform patterns that accelerate delivery.

Mentor principal and senior engineers, grow a community of practice, and raise engineering quality.

May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Design and build reusable data engineering frameworks and standards used across multiple squads to improve consistency, scalability, and delivery quality.

Develop, manage, and optimize scalable pipelines that move data from SAP and legacy platforms into the enterprise data lake and deliver trusted data for reporting, analytics, AI, application and business consumption.

Harmonize and transform data from disparate legacy systems into SAP while maintaining appropriate data quality, lineage, governance, and reconciliation controls.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for Microsoft Data Ecosystem, Databricks and SAP Business Data Cloud solutions, including architecture decisions, implementation guidance, proof-of-concepts, and performance optimization.

Establish product-oriented platform capabilities (self-service ingestion, transformation, orchestration, catalog/lineage, quality) and the internal tooling that enables scalable developer and analyst workflows.

Define and drive automation standards, including CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for data platforms and services.

Embed security, privacy, and compliance by design, leveraging automation to enforce policies and produce audit-ready evidence.

Orchestrate reliability and observability across pipelines and platforms (SLOs, cost/performance telemetry, automated remediation), including platform-wide monitoring, logging, and tracing practices (e.g., DataDog).

Prioritize roadmaps and investments using measurable value, risk reduction, and customer (data consumer) outcomes; evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve platform capabilities.

Drive the Reporting & Analytics engineering strategy and design API-driven and event-streaming solutions that enable secure, reliable, and timely access to enterprise data products.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.

12+ years in data/platform engineering with enterprise scope and measurable impact. Demonstrated experience designing, building, testing, and operating scalable batch and real-time data pipelines using SQL and a modern programming language such as Python or Scala. Strong background in reporting and analytics, including data modeling and delivery of trusted, analytics-ready datasets for enterprise consumption.

Deep expertise with Databricks and modern lakehouse architecture, including Spark-based processing, Delta Lake, orchestration, governance, performance optimization, and production operations. Strong knowledge of REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and streaming technologies such as Kafka or comparable platforms.

Executive level communication, influence, and stakeholder alignment. Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, manage stakeholders, influence across teams, and serve as a bridge among engineering, business, and transformation teams.

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more. Join our Talent Community to stay updated on opportunities with Ahold Delhaize USA. You’ll be the first to know about new positions that match your career aspirations. To join, click here: Talent Community - Ahold Delhaize USA (careerswithus.com) .

At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.

Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies. Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work. We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business. Learn More About Our Benefits - Click Here

Ahold Delhaize USA is an equal opportunity employer.

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Our employees and prospective employees are treated with respect and dignity. As an equal opportunity employer, we comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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