SAP​/ERP Transformation - Integration Principal Software Engineer

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology

Job Requisition: 537756

Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive

Store Code: IT Executive & Administration (5169193)

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 Principal Software Engineer serves as a senior technical expert who designs and builds highly complex software solutions while shaping engineering standards and guiding teams across products and platforms.

Serves as the hands‑on integration engineering lead for ADUSA's SAP transformation program, defining, designing, and delivering enterprise integration solutions across SAP and non‑SAP platforms. Partners closely with the system integrator and internal architecture teams to establish a scalable integration foundation using SAP Integration Suite (BTP), Mule Soft, other ETL and data integration tools, APIs, orchestration, and event‑driven patterns.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise grade software solutions.
• Lead analysis, design, and code reviews for major application components.
• Develop high quality, production‑ready code and robust automated tests.
• Support upgrade planning, modernization, and management of technical debt.
• Implement automation strategies and contribute to CI/CD and Dev Ops maturity.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into technical designs.
• Monitor application performance and address issues with root‑cause analysis.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend innovative improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.
• Lead the engineering design and delivery of integrations across SAP and non‑SAP platforms, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with the SAP transformation roadmap.
• Build and maintain integrations using SAP Integration Suite (BTP), Mule Soft, and other ETL and data integration tools, including API‑based services, orchestration frameworks, interfaces, reusable patterns, and automated testing.
• Partner extensively with the system integrator and internal delivery teams to review designs and code, manage dependencies and defects, and ensure integration capabilities meet ADUSA engineering standards.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to define integration standards, API governance, security, observability, error handling, message reprocessing, deployment, and operational best practices.
• Support event‑driven and streaming‑based integrations using Kafka and related technologies, applying cloud‑native patterns where they improve agility, resilience, or real‑time data exchange.
• Guide and mentor engineers involved in integration delivery, influence technical direction without direct authority, and contribute to AI‑enabled integration and automation opportunities where appropriate.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in modern software design, development, and testing.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud environments and Dev Ops practices.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with a user‑focused mindset.
• Demonstrated experience leading SAP integration initiatives within large‑scale, complex enterprise transformations.
• Advanced hands‑on experience with SAP Integration Suite on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Mule Soft, and other ETL and data integration tools.
• Strong expertise in API design, development,…