Sr SAP Application Developer

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.

Sr. SAP Application Developer is responsible for the design, build, and delivery of SAP custom and extended solutions across S/4

HANA and SAP BTP in support of the Retail Spine program, IT enabled transformation program designed to unlock long term competitiveness, improve operational efficiency, and deliver enterprise-wide capabilities aligned to the future state operating model. Work as part of SAP application developers and champions an AI-first engineering approach, leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, and intelligent tooling to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational reliability.

All development activities are executed in alignment with Clean Core principles, the RISE with SAP extensibility model, and responsible AI practices to protect system maintainability, security, and upgradeability. Partner closely with SAP Platform Engineering, functional technology leads, systems integrators, and third-party vendors to deliver secure, reliable, and fit-for-purpose SAP solutions on schedule.

• Responsible for SAP application development functions, design, build, and delivery of solutions across S/4
  
  HANA and SAP BTP in alignment with Retail Spine program objectives, SAP Activate delivery phases, and clean core adoption principles.
• Own and enforce the Clean Core extensibility standard across all development activity, ensuring custom and partner solutions leverage SAP-approved extensibility patterns including BAdIs, released APIs, RAP-based extensions, side‑by‑side BTP extensions, and event‑driven architectures and that technical debt introduction is governed and minimized throughout the program lifecycle.
• Define and maintain the development taxonomy and delivery scope across ABAP (RAP, CDS Views, OData services), Fiori/UI5 applications, SAP BTP services, workflow and process automation, forms, integrations, and cloud‑native components - ensuring full WRICEF visibility, traceability, and prioritization alignment with program releases.
• Adopt API‑first and service‑based design standards, governing the use of OData, REST APIs, SAP Integration Suite (CPI), and event messaging frameworks to enable scalable, decoupled integration across the retail ecosystem and enterprise application landscape.
• Monitor and validate SI-delivered application development work products, ensuring adherence to architecture standards, clean core compliance, code quality benchmarks, security requirements, and performance expectations including participation in design reviews, code reviews, and transport governance processes.
• Partner with SAP Solution Architects, Platform, and Basis teams to ensure development patterns are aligned to the RISE with SAP target architecture, BTP platform strategy, and long‑term technology modernization roadmap - proactively identifying and resolving architectural conflicts before they reach build.
• Responsible for the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, peer and architecture review gates, automated testing frameworks, Dev Sec Ops  practices, transport management discipline, and release readiness criteria operating consistently across Agile, hybrid, and program-controlled delivery models.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of SAP…