Data Engineer III - Finance, HR, and ESG

About the role

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of the global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is hiring a Data Engineer III for its Finance, HR and ESG teams. The engineer designs reusable data patterns, automates quality and governance checks and strengthens pipeline reliability and observability. The role is hybrid, with 3 in-person days at a core location (Salisbury, NC or Quincy, MA) and 2 remote days, and requires current authorization to work in the United States.

Key responsibilities

• Design modular ingestion and transformation components that emphasize reuse and maintainability.
• Build automated data tests, quality rules and lineage capture into pipelines, and contribute to CI/CD workflows that validate and deploy changes safely.
• Operate monitoring, logging and alerting, tune signals to reduce noise and speed triage, and use observability tooling such as DataDog where used.
• Execute upgrades and changes with low-risk deployment practices, contributing automation scripts and repeatable release steps.
• Support cloud service integration and container/orchestration patterns to improve scalability and runtime performance.
• Partner with consumers to align data models with user needs, and provide reusable datasets and components.
• Maintain infrastructure as code and update environment configurations with approved tools and templates.
• Document standards, runbooks and troubleshooting guides, and contribute to internal enablement materials.
• Contribute to Agile planning and continuous improvement, and support critical escalations and urgent IT incidents.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years in data engineering or closely related roles.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration, distributed processing and storage.
• Clear problem-solving and communication skills.

Required skills

• Proficiency in scripting and automation.
• Proficiency in version control.
• Preferred: exposure to streaming and change data capture patterns, and awareness of privacy and security controls for data.

What we offer

• Salary range of $125,040 - $187,560, depending on qualifications, experience, internal equity and market conditions.
• Flexible hybrid schedule with 3 in-person days and 2 remote days.