Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose:

The Senior Platform Engineering Manager will play a critical role in developing, implementing & delivering enhancements to core data platforms and supporting the data & analytics ecosystems, applications and tools. The Sr Platform Engineering Manager will work closely with Platform Owners, Business Channel leaders, SMEs, Technology, Operations, Client Services, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Architecture and external suppliers/vendors. Day-to-day responsibilities include maintaining subject matter expertise for data platform functionality geared around enhancing user experience, user adoption, or supporting platform issues identified by client service/support organizations.  

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC, Chicago, IL, and Quincy, MA.

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

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Help define strategic vision for key functionalities within ADUSA data platforms. 
• Become a subject matter expert in the data platform current and future architecture guidance "Data Lakehouse" that helps support our customers in a data domain centric ecosystem. 
• Help improve our platforms standards, guidelines and recipes by working closely with both architecture, engineers and Platform Owner. 
• Partner closely with architecture on design, test, and deliver critical functionality to support strategic enterprise goals to enhance user experience, support line of business adoption, and meet internal/external mandates. 
• Leverage executive presence skills to influence senior business stakeholders and program leadership on roadmap prioritization decisions. 
• Provides oversight and holds team members accountable for following all compliance, Change Management and IT Security policies. 
• Lead a team of lean DevOps engineers in an agile environment to deliver cutting edge PaaS, IaaS and IaC solutions that help enable our customer base.  
• Lead an operation team of platform support engineers that provide 24/7 support to all our data platforms as apart of keeping the lights on for business use.  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, CIS or related (or equivalent related work experience).
• 8 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology.  
• 5 or more years of equivalent experience in an advanced role or technical capacity,  leading teams directly or indirectly.
• 5 or more years experience directly responsible for leading and managing an agile engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post graduate degree advanced training and/or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred.
• 5 or more years experience in Databricks, Azure, MongoDB and Power BI.
• 5 or more years experience in leading teams or advancing technical capability in teams. 
• 5 or more year's experience in DevOps, automation, CI/CD, Terraform, Powershell and or YAML. 
• 5 to 10 years in GitHub and Data Dog.

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Salary Range: $151,200 - $226,800 

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. 

At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.

Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.

Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.

We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.