Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer | Cloud & Automation

Ahold Delhaize USA; Mauldin (SC); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA in Mauldin, SC is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and delivery, embedding automation, observability, and security into every stage.

This senior role requires deep expertise in distributed data systems, Azure, Databricks, and DataDog, and offers a hybrid schedule with in-person days at core locations and remote days.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 10+ years in data engineering with large scale systems.
• 10+ years working with Azure.
• 5+ years working with Databricks.
• 5+ years working with Datadog.
• Proficiency in distributed data processing, orchestration, and storage patterns.
• Strong automation/scripting skills and version control practices.
• Excellent cross team communication and influence.

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

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud computing

Cross-team collaboration

Automation scripting

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA in Mauldin, SC is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and delivery, embedding automation, observability, and security into every stage.

This senior role requires deep expertise in distributed data systems, Azure, Databricks, and DataDog, and offers a hybrid schedule with in-person days at core locations and remote days.