Data Engineer III - Finance, HR, and ESG

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Data Engineer III to design reusable data patterns, automate quality checks, and strengthen pipeline reliability. The role supports hybrid work with 3 in-person days at Salisbury, NC or Quincy, MA, and 2 remote days.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Responsibilities include modular ingestion components, automated tests, monitoring, CI/CD contributions, and collaboration with data consumers to align models with needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering or closely related roles.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration, distributed processing, and storage.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation and version control.
• Clear problem solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design modular ingestion and transformation components for common use cases, emphasizing reuse and maintainability.
• Build automated data tests, quality rules, and lineage capture into pipelines; contribute to CI/CD workflows that validate and deploy changes safely.
• Operate monitoring, logging, and alerting; tune signals to reduce noise and speed triage (including observability tooling such as DataDog).
• Execute upgrades and changes using low-risk deployment practices, contributing automation scripts and repeatable release steps.
• Support cloud service integration and container/orchestration patterns as needed to improve scalability and runtime performance.
• Partner with consumers to align data models with user needs and usability principles; provide reusable datasets and components.
• Maintain infrastructure as code and update environment configurations using approved tools and templates.
• Document standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides; contribute to internal enablement materials for platform usage.
• Contribute to Agile planning and continuous improvement; support operational needs that keep platform services running.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Skills

Data engineering

CI/CD

Scripting

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

DataDog

Git

Cloud services

Containers

Job description

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.

Overview

The Data Engineer III designs and implements reusable data patterns, automates quality and governance checks, and strengthens pipeline reliability and observability.

*Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office location for this role is Salisbury, NC or Quincy, MA.

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

Responsibilities

• Design modular ingestion and transformation components for common use cases, emphasizing reuse and maintainability.
• Build automated data tests, quality rules, and lineage capture into pipelines; contribute to CI/CD workflows that validate and deploy changes safely.
• Operate monitoring, logging, and alerting; tune signals to reduce noise and speed triage (including observability tooling such as DataDog where used).
• Execute upgrades and changes using low-risk deployment practices, contributing automation scripts and repeatable release steps.
• Support cloud service integration and container/orchestration patterns as needed to improve scalability and runtime performance.
• Partner with consumers to align data models with user needs and usability principles; provide reusable datasets and components.
• Maintain infrastructure as code and update environment configurations using approved tools and templates.
• Document standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides; contribute to internal enablement materials for platform usage.
• Contribute to Agile planning and continuous improvement; support operational needs that keep platform services running.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years in data engineering or closely related roles.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration, distributed processing, and storage.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation and version control.
• Clear problem solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to streaming and change data capture patterns.
• Awareness of privacy/security controls for data.

Salary Range: $125,040 - $187,560

Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on their unique qualifications and experience, internal equity, and market conditions. Final compensation decisions will be made in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.