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 Data Engineer II contributes to the expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. They will contribute to our data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They engage through the entire lifecycle of a project from data mapping, data pipelines, data modeling, and finally data consumption. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. They will learn to optimize or even re-design our company's data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. They can take on smaller projects from start to finish, work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors and trace issues to their source. They develop solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.

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:

• Solves simple to moderate application errors, resolves application problems, following up promptly with all appropriate customers and IT personnel.
• Reviews and contributes to QA test plans and supports QA team during test execution.
• Participates in developing data transformation and data pipelines.
• Ensures change control and change management procedures are followed within the program/project as they relate to requirements.
• Develops BI datasets, reports, dashboards to support decision-making within the business and IT.
• Able to interpret requirement documents, contributes to creating functional design documents as a part of data development life cycle.
• Documents all phases of work including gathering requirements, joining relationship diagrams, creating database diagrams, report layouts and other program technical specifications using current specified design standards for new or revised solutions.
• Relates information from various sources to draw logical conclusions.
• Conducts unit testing on ELT and report development.
• Conducts data lineage and impact analysis as a part of the change management process.
• Conducts data analysis (SQL, Excel, Data Discovery, etc.) on legacy systems and new data sources.
• Contributes to documenting reporting requirements through engagement with business process SMEs.
• Creates source to target data mappings for data pipelines and integration activities.
• Assists in identifying the impact of proposed application development/enhancements projects.
• Performs data profiling and process analysis to understand key source systems and uses knowledge of application features and functions to assess scope and impact of business needs.
• Works with business users to design, develop, test, and implement business intelligence solutions in the Data & Analytics Platform.
• Implement and maintain data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security and compliance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Technical field; equivalent trainings/certifications/experience equivalency will be considered.
• 3 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in relevant field of study preferred, Additional trainings or certifications in relevant field of study preferred.
• Experience in Agile teams and or Product/Platform based operating model.
• Experience in retail or grocery preferred.

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.