Hybrid ERP Master Data Lead – S/4 & Stibo MDM

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of the global food retailer, is seeking a Senior technical authority to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across product, vendor, and location domains.

You will lead hands-on MDM efforts with SAP S/4HANA, partner with data and product teams, and drive enterprise master data programs. This role follows a flexible hybrid schedule with in-person days in Salisbury, NC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 10+ years in data engineering with large scale systems.
• Proficiency in distributed data processing, orchestration, and storage patterns.
• Strong automation/scripting skills and version control practices.
• Demonstrated leadership of enterprise master data programs spanning product, vendor, and location domains, including Stibo MDM implementation, SAP S/4HANA master data setup, data conversion, migration, cutover, and production stabilization.
• Deep functional and technical expertise in Stibo Systems MDM, including multidomain data modeling, hierarchies, workflows, business rules, reference data, match-and-merge, approvals, integrations, and operational support.
• Strong data engineering skills across SQL, Python or Scala, APIs, event and batch integration, and Apache Spark.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable patterns for batch and streaming ingestion, transformations, and data product delivery, optimizing for performance and scale.
• Build automation for quality, lineage, and governance checks integrated into CI/CD, including deployment scripts and pipeline templates that reduce manual effort.
• Create and evolve internal tooling, developer platforms, and golden paths that improve reliability and time-to-delivery for data teams.
• Harden security and privacy controls (access, encryption, masking) across platforms and pipelines, integrating controls into automated delivery workflows.
• Elevate reliability with SLOs, telemetry, monitoring/logging/tracing, and automated rollback/reprocessing; contribute to observability implementations (e.g., DataDog).
• Integrate and optimize cloud services and container orchestration where relevant to improve scalability and reduce operational toil.
• Maintain infrastructure as code and repeatable environments using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Guide solution decisions for complex programs; run technical reviews and threat/quality modeling to ensure robust outcomes.
• Document standards, playbooks, and reusable components to reduce rework and improve consistency across teams.
• Coach teams on data modeling, performance optimization, and design thinking for data consumer experience.
• Lead the end-to-end master data strategy, design, and delivery across product, vendor, and location domains, with Stibo Systems MDM as the system of governance and SAP S/4HANA master data setup aligned to business and transformation requirements.

Skills

Stibo MDM

SAP S/4HANA

Data modeling

SQL

Python/Scala

Databricks

Cloud platforms

CI/CD automation

Governance & security

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Tools

Stibo MDM

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of the global food retailer, is seeking a Senior technical authority to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across product, vendor, and location domains.

You will lead hands-on MDM efforts with SAP S/4HANA, partner with data and product teams, and drive enterprise master data programs. This role follows a flexible hybrid schedule with in-person days in Salisbury, NC.