Director, SAP S​/HANA Solution Architect

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 486671
Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive
Store Code: IT Executive & Administration (5167689)

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

Director I, SAP Architect serves as solution architect for ADUSA's SAP S/4

HANA Retail Spine transformation program, responsible for designing, implementing, and governing comprehensive, integrated enterprise solutions that leverage SAP technologies, best-of-breed applications, and custom-built capabilities to achieve business transformation objectives. This strategic leadership role owns the end-to-end solution architecture spanning SAP S/4

HANA core modules and other integrating platforms in Supply Chain & Merchandizing, complementary best-of-breed solutions, custom development platforms, and the integration fabric connecting these systems into a cohesive enterprise architecture.

Reporting directly into the Technology Transformation executive leadership structure, this position architects scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that balance SAP standard functionality with specialized best-of-breed capabilities, ensuring optimal fit-for-purpose technology selections while maintaining architectural coherence, data integrity, and operational excellence. The Director works in close partnership with Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure alignment with long-term technology strategy, governance frameworks, and technical standards, while leading a team of domain-specific solution architects (Finance, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Store Operations) who translate business requirements into detailed solution designs across their respective functional domains.

This leader combines deep technical expertise in SAP solutions, best-of-breed retail applications, and modern integration architectures with strategic thinking to make critical build vs. buy vs. configure trade-off decisions, define integration patterns and data governance strategies, and establish solution architecture practices that balance innovation with pragmatism, speed with quality, and business agility with technical sustainability throughout ADUSA's multi-year, multi-brand retail transformation journey.

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.

Duties & Responsibilities

Enterprise Solution Strategy & Architecture

• Define and continuously evolve the end-to-end enterprise solution architecture for the Retail transformation, spanning SAP S/4
  
  HANA core modules, best-of-breed platforms (e.g., Manhattan WMS, Relex, planning tools), custom applications, integration layers, data and analytics platforms, and supporting cloud infrastructure.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and patterns governing SAP vs. best-of-breed vs. custom solutions; integration approaches (API-led, event-driven, hub-and-spoke); data and master data strategy; cloud deployment models; security architecture; and performance, scalability, and resilience requirements
• Lead major technology selection decisions, including vendor evaluations, proof-of-concepts, build vs. buy analysis, total cost of ownership, and risk assessment-presenting clear recommendations and trade-offs to executive leadership.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with long-term technology strategy, compliance with governance frameworks, and adherence to architecture standards through review boards and continuous improvement practices.

• Architect end-to-end SAP S/4
  
  HANA Retail solutions across FI/CO, MM, SD, Retail, TM, and CAR, including detailed system design, configuration strategy, and extension patterns (in-app vs. side-by-side…