Sr Voice Platform Engineer

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 443302
Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street
Store Code: Infrastructure-Network (5118697)
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:
The Platform Engineer IV is an experienced Engineer with a demonstrated track record of providing expertise and leadership in the design, configuration, and management of all corporate, distribution center and retail digital media devices and associated supporting services. They are expected to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment leveraging forward-thinking technical engineering expertise in the media device and services area of the enterprise. This will include translating business and technical requirements into well engineered, tested, and deployed technology solutions by gathering user requirements and defining system functionality. The Platform Engineer IV can significantly impact a project both as individual technical contributor, technical leader and mentor to more junior Engineers.
Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Chicago, IL, Quincy, MA, Salisbury, NC, and Mauldin, SC.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise in the analysis, design and preparation of technology solutions to meet business needs
• Recommends components for solutions that will work well together across business domains, partner with domain architect or act as the domain architect to ensure adherence to the architectural roadmap
• Accountable for projects/applications/infrastructure meeting business needs are delivered in a timely, cost-effective manner considering all budget aspects including total cost of ownership.
• Ensures project artifacts are developed as required, this includes working with support organizations and suppliers to ensure proper documentation is created and stored in the procedure's manual or document repository.
• Facilitates/completes the creation of communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders.
• Develops complete and robust test plans, cases, and scripts, ensures defects are properly resolved and user acceptance is obtained. Ensures the test scripts and defects are entered and tracked in our department tools.
• Acts as communication point keeping the supplier and business partners informed of infrastructure changes, application changes, data changes or upcoming implementations and ensures business specific impacts are addressed.
• Ensures integration and consideration of assigned business areas against critical business processing, freeze periods, schedule changes, weather events and significant refresh activities.
• Thorough understanding of the business strategy, operations, markets, and key stakeholders.
• Review's business processes to understand capability gaps and opportunities
• Recommends Innovations and business processes /systems simplifications
• Builds close relationships with the function heads and their teams. Advise these teams on how technology can be used to match or outpace competitor performance.
• Works as 3rd level support to help resolve issues within area of responsibility
• Identifies opportunities and leads specific initiatives for improving way of working in teams and in eliminating technical debt
• Develops solutions to highly complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple areas or disciplines.
• Communicates with internal team members across multiple areas and client team members.
• Acts as a project/team leader regarding solution design, process and/or approaches.
• Acts as a subject matter expert on technology solution
• Responsible for coaching/mentoring junior engineers
• Consistently delivers very high-quality work in cross-functional environments - seen as a consistent and high-performing technical leader among peers
• Has a balanced approach to team empowerment and leadership driving successful brainstorming sessions and solid technical conclusions to work approaches while modeling self-accountability, continuous development and team contributions.
• Ensure operational stability of a 24/7/365 grocery retail environment by providing technical support, system monitoring, and issue resolution which may be required during off-hours, weekends, and holidays as needed.
  Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, CIS or related (or equivalent related work experience)
• 8 or more years of experience in relevant job or field of technology.
• Experience in an advanced role or technical capacity.
• Experience, directly or indirectly, managing, guiding, training and onboarding team members in relevant technologies, capabilities or skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in relevant field of study, Additional trainings or certifications in relevant field of study
• Experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model.
• Experience in leading teams
• Experience in retail or grocery preferred

All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.
This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
ME/NC/PA/SC Salary Range: $108,880 - $163,320
IL/MA/MD Salary Range: $125,200 - $187,800
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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent. Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
We offer an experience where our associates are valued; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business and our employees are representative of the communities that we serve. We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.