Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer — Hybrid

Adusa; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and automated delivery with strong security and observability. The role supports a flexible hybrid schedule with 3 in-person days at core U.S. locations and 2 remote days.

The position requires 10+ years in data engineering, expertise with Azure, Databricks, and Datadog, and a strong track record in building scalable data platforms and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 10+ years in data engineering with large scale systems.
• 5+ 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.
• Build automation for quality, lineage, and governance checks integrated into CI/CD.
• Create and evolve internal tooling, developer platforms, and golden paths for data teams.
• Harden security and privacy controls across platforms and pipelines.
• Elevate reliability with SLOs, telemetry, monitoring/logging/tracing.
• Integrate and optimize cloud services and container orchestration for scalability.
• Maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Guide solution decisions for complex programs and conduct threat/quality modeling.
• Document standards, playbooks, and reusable components.
• Coach teams on data modeling and performance optimization.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed data processing

Automation scripting

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Staff Data & AI Platform Engineer to design reference architectures for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and automated delivery with strong security and observability. The role supports a flexible hybrid schedule with 3 in-person days at core U.S. locations and 2 remote days.

The position requires 10+ years in data engineering, expertise with Azure, Databricks, and Datadog, and a strong track record in building scalable data platforms and governance.