Director, SAP Platform Engineering & Security

Introduction

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.

The Director, SAP Platform Engineering & Security Lead serves as the technical authority for ADUSA's SAP S/4

HANA Retail Spine Transformation program, providing strategic technology leadership and operational oversight across the entire SAP technical landscape. This leader will own the end-to-end technical architecture, platform strategy, and delivery excellence across SAP Basis, environment management, release/change management, application development (ABAP/Fiori), security & GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), quality assurance/testing, and integration frameworks.

Reporting directly into the ERP Transformation executive leadership structure, this position architects scalable, secure, and high-performance SAP solutions that enable business transformation while ensuring platform stability, security compliance, and operational resilience across ADUSA's multi-brand retail operations.

This leader partners closely with functional tech leads, System Integrator (SI) technical architects, SAP platform specialists, and enterprise infrastructure teams to establish modern cloud-native architectures, Dev Ops practices, security frameworks, and automation strategies that support the 5-7 year transformation journey. The role demands deep technical expertise across SAP technologies combined with proven executive leadership capabilities to build and guide high-performing technical teams, manage multi-million dollar technology investments, and deliver mission-critical platform capabilities that underpin the retail transformation.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• Lead SAP development across ABAP, Fiori/UI5, SAP BTP extensions, APIs/OData, workflows, forms, and cloud-native services aligned to a Clean Core strategy.
• Enforce custom code governance and technical design standards: BAdI-based extensibility, API-first integration, separation of concerns, and reduction of technical debt.
• Establish SAP BTP as the strategic platform for innovation, low-code, automation, and future-proof extensibility.
• Own enterprise integration architecture across CPI/PI, API Management, EDI/B2B, and real-time vs batch patterns for the retail ecosystem.

• Own SAP Basis and platform operations across SAP S/4
  
  HANA, HANA DB, and RISE-managed infrastructure including system monitoring, patching, upgrades, transport management, system refreshes, backups, and performance optimization.
• Define and govern the environment strategy (Sandbox → Prod → DR), including provisioning standards, refresh cadence, data masking/anonymization, and configuration isolation across all in-scope systems.
• Architect and oversee High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities including HANA System Replication, RPO/RTO targets, DR testing, and incident/runbook execution.
• Drive proactive capacity planning and performance engineering to ensure sub-second response times for mission-critical retail transactions during peak volumes.

• Serve as executive owner for SAP Security and GRC including role design, SoD management, access controls, Firefighter, audit readiness, and SOX/PCI/GDPR compliance.
• Define and enforce SAP security architecture: SSO/MFA, encryption, PAM, network security, vulnerability management, and SIEM integration.
• Lead role lifecycle management, access reviews, authorization governance, and toxic conflict mitigation in partnership with Audit and Info Sec.
• Establish SAP security KPIs and executive reporting aligned to NIST/ISO
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