Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to architect reference data ingestion and delivery patterns, embedding automation, observability, and security across pipelines. This senior role acts as a technical authority guiding complex data programs and cloud-native implementations.

You will shape developer platforms, establish golden paths, and drive reliability with SLOs, telemetry, and robust CI/CD automation, supporting multiple brands across the U.S. hybrid work model.

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 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 to improve scalability and reduce toil.
• Maintain infrastructure as code and repeatable environments using 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.

Skills

Data modeling

Automation

Scripting

Cross-team communication

Problem solving

Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to architect reference data ingestion and delivery patterns, embedding automation, observability, and security across pipelines. This senior role acts as a technical authority guiding complex data programs and cloud-native implementations.

You will shape developer platforms, establish golden paths, and drive reliability with SLOs, telemetry, and robust CI/CD automation, supporting multiple brands across the U.S. hybrid work model.