Manager II, Data & Integration Platforms

Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive
Store Code: Arch/Data - Business Intell & Analy (5119291)
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
This role will build teams to deliver highly performant and scalable data products and platforms to drive consumption of data from our enterprise data ecosystem, while driving data engineering best practices; lead, manage, and grow multiple high performing teams of product focused software & data engineers. Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open-source products across all platforms. This individual will be accountable to drive a cohesive data strategy in collaboration with multiple enterprise partners and lead the work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms. They will collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning while partnering with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications.
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, Quincy, MA, and Carlisle, PA.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Duties and Responsibilities • Responsible for leading the design, configuration, engineering, integration, and implementation of data platforms components and services and advise the engineering teams that work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies.• Deliver data-driven solutions that are customer focused, easy to consume and create sustained business value• Develop and operationalize new program within each capability areas from RFP, to testing, to deployment, to assessments• Drive centralized and actionable views to build research, monitoring, and reporting capabilities• Leverage experience to build efficient and scalable data platforms utilizing best in class tools and services• Build and maintain optimized and highly available data pipelines for both real-time and batch data processing• Deliver end-to-end data solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost effective• Design and customize complex data models, search queries, dashboards, and promote data-driven solutions in support of our technology strategies• Provide expert level technical expertise to drive towards the right and practical solutions that meet the business needs within the required timelines• Serve as the ambassador for all things data including data processing, cleansing, data platform engineering, data presentation, data architecture and analytics• Effectively drive the teams to focus on the task at hand and align team objectives to corporate goals• Define Objectives and Key Results, strategic risk indicators, and metrics/scorecards to understand current health and drive insights into focus future focus areas for the team/division before issues occur/risks are realized• Surface insights to executive leadership, as needed, to update and influence• Lead the evaluation of emerging data science technologies including testing and integration of new solutions• Monitor and evaluates internal and external technology trends and changes that could impact data driven security programs and capabilities• Responsible for managing the code templates for all components of the data & analytics cloud infrastructure from compute, storage, supporting system, etc.• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.
Qualifications • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Technical field and Masters Degree in Technology and/or Business related field; equivalent trainings/certifications/experience equivalency will be considered• 5 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology.• 2 or more years of equivalent experience in an advanced role or technical capacity, leading teams directly or indirectly• 2 or more years experience directly responsible for guiding, training or onboarding team members in relevant technologies, capabilities or skills
Preferred Qualifications • Post graduate degree advanced training and or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred• 3 or more years experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model• 3 or more years of experience in leading teams or advancing technical capability in teams.• Experience in retail or grocery preferred.
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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.
We offer an experience where our associates are valued; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business and our employees are representative of the communities that we serve. We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
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.
Job Requisition: 394576_external_USA-NC-Salisbury