Director, SAP Platform Engineering & Security

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology

Job Requisition: 489308

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.

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…