Data Engineer - Kafka

Data Engineer - Kafka at Ahold Delhaize USA

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology

Job Requisition: 466844

Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza

Store Code: Architecture, Strategy & Development (5119314)

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.

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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:

• Solve simple to moderate application errors, resolving application problems and following up promptly with all appropriate customers and IT personnel.
• Review and contribute to QA test plans, and support QA team during test execution.
• Participate in developing streaming data applications (Kafka), data transformation and data pipelines.
• Ensure change control and change management procedures are followed within the program/project as they relate to requirements.
• Interpret requirement documents and contribute to creating functional design documents as part of the data development life cycle.
• Document all phases of work, including gathering requirements, architectural diagrams and other program technical specifications using current specified design standards for new or revised solutions.
• Relate information from various sources to draw logical conclusions.
• Conduct unit testing on data streams.
• Conduct data lineage and impact analysis as part of the change management process.
• Conduct data analysis (SQL, Excel, Data Discovery, etc.) on legacy systems and new data sources.
• Create source‑to‑target data mappings for data pipelines and integration activities.
• Assist in identifying the impact of proposed application development/enhancements projects.
• Perform data profiling and process analysis to understand key source systems and use knowledge of application features and functions to assess scope and impact of business needs.
• Implement and maintain data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security and compliance.
• Ensure operational stability of a 24/7/365 grocery retail environment by providing technical support, system monitoring and issue resolution which may be required during off‑hours, weekends and holidays as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a technical field; equivalent trainings/certifications/experience considered.
• 3 or more years of equivalent experience in a relevant job or field of technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field preferred; additional trainings or certifications in a relevant field preferred.
• Experience in Agile teams and/or Product/Platform based operating model.
• Experience in retail or grocery preferred.
• Experience with Kafka.

Salary Range: $101,360 – $152,040

Salary may vary based on qualifications and market conditions. Final compensation decisions will be made in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Retail