MDM Software Engineer III

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

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.

The Software Engineer III designs, builds, tests, deploys, and supports reliable software solutions that deliver measurable business and customer value. The role owns significant components or smaller products and projects from inception through production, applying professional expertise with minimal supervision and collaborating across teams and disciplines. This position translates business and technology requirements into maintainable, secure, resilient, observable, and performant solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.

The engineer also improves delivery and operational outcomes through automation, Agile and Dev Ops practices, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

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

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

• Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of significant software components or smaller products and projects, delivering high-quality outcomes from inception through production.
• Collaborate with product leaders, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to understand end-user goals; evaluate requirements; identify gaps, risks, scalability concerns, and technical debt; and translate needs into clear technical specifications and testable user stories.
• Build production-ready code, APIs, integrations, and automated unit and API tests that are maintainable, testable, secure, resilient, observable, scalable, and performant, while following approved architecture, standards, guardrails, documentation, and source-control practices.
• Participate in solution design and technical reviews, analyze system interfaces and migrations, and provide informed recommendations on technical options, estimates, dependencies, risks, and business impacts.
• Use Agile, Dev Ops, and CI/CD practices to deliver changes iteratively; improve build, test, release, and deployment automation; and help teams deliver functionality quickly, safely, and consistently.
• Execute and continuously improve functional, regression, integration, security, performance, and compliance testing; analyze results, resolve defects, and confirm deployments meet defined expectations.
• Monitor application health through logs, metrics, and observability tools; identify performance, reliability, availability, and capacity improvements; and communicate relevant findings and recommendations to product and technical stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues by performing root-cause analysis, evaluating multiple options, implementing sustainable fixes, documenting resolutions, and supporting change, incident, and problem-management processes.
• Coordinate upgrades, enhancements, vendor interactions, and integration activities with minimal disruption to production operations, and proactively managing technical debt.
• Take ownership of delivered solutions, communicate business value and technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, provide guidance to junior engineers, raise risks early, and contribute to a collaborative product mindset and continuous-improvement culture.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience; preferrably in the MDM space
• Proficiency in one or more relevant programming or scripting…