Domain Information Security Officer EU

Make a Difference as a Domain Information Security Officer

As our new Domain Information Security Officer, you will create the most innovative security solutions for our stores and online platforms to shape tomorrow’s retail.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As Domain Security Officer for the Global Information Security Advisory Department, you will be joining our Domain Information Security department. Technology is vital to Ahold Delhaize and its entire family of brands. As a global team, we support and accelerate the tech transformation and IT optimization of our company and brands. By providing the best possible IT strategy, infrastructure and technology, we enable the company to strengthen our position as a leading omnichannel retailer. We’re a highly energetic team – our members are from different cultures, all over the world – with a very innovative mindset and a truly global view. We collaborate regularly across countries and brands. We are eager for continuous transformation within an ever-changing environment, constantly seeking new, innovative technologies and processes to stay ahead of the curve. If you want to learn from the best, the Technology department really is the place to be.

You will be working at Ahold Delhaize. Approximately 370,000 employees worldwide serve over 50 million customers a week. On a somewhat smaller scale, you will be working with 1,500 colleagues in Zaandam, the Netherlands. Occasionally, you visit our other offices in the region. For example, our offices in Brussels, as business requires. By working together to improve every day and through innovation, we reinforce our role as a leader in retail and e-commerce. This is also how we build on trusted local brands. Strong brands that offer a great deal of knowledge, experience, and impact.

You will find your new workplace at our bustling head office, next to Zaandam train station. More specifically, on the 8th floor of the Global Support Office (GSO) in the Global Information Security Department. However, due to COVID-19, we currently still work from home as much as possible. Everything you do with your colleagues is directly visible in our stores and for people at home.

As our Domain Security Officer within the Ahold Delhaize Group, you become an important part of the Global Information Security Advisory Department. There you will work as a Domain Security Officer at Albert Heijn, Etos or Gall & Gall under the banner Ahold Delhaize. You make sure our customers get an optimal and smooth customer experience in our stores and online, whilst safeguarding their data and our systems. You will also work on groundbreaking, innovative services such as our online shopping experience, mechanization of our distribution centers and in-store innovations, such as securing the hardware for our tap-to-go service.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• Advising on innovative security solutions for Albert Heijn and our global organization
• Advising on the centralization of our security controls
• Working closely with our other Security Experts of the Global Cyber Security Teams
• Conducting and facilitating security reviews
• Being the First Point of Contact for almost all security-related topics. The platform security consultant will act as the conduit to expertise available within the ISO (Information Security Office) team
• Formally assessing information security risks related to solution / business projects, determine the potential impact of those risks, and conduct follow-up, throughout the project lifecycle, on any necessary remediation efforts
• Working hand in hand with DevOps teams (developers, architects, product owners, business) to serve the platform’s requirements and ISO requirements to ensure that the security posture is in line with the risk appetite and threat landscape
• Conducting initial and ongoing formal assessments of information security risks related to vendors, determine the potential impact of those risks, and conduct follow-up on any necessary remediation efforts
• Developing a specialized knowledge of and key relationships with the local brand, ensuring that security is imbedded in each brand and that their security needs are being met. Collaborate with other team members to identify opportunities for implementing common security solutions

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary of up to €95K including holiday allowance, based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12.5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Master or bachelor degree or equivalent technical training in Information Technology, Information Systems Security, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• Experience with security architecture such as cloud, mobile, enterprise, web and app security architecture.
• Experience with security tests in place to fight off things like code execution, SQL injection and cross site scripting.
• Experience with security in cloud computing and microservices architecture.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant IT and Information Security experience and you have the ability to act independently with minimal supervision.
• Familiarity with security-related legal and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrate specialized knowledge, including data protection methods, in at least one of the following areas and, as required, share this expertise with other team members to facilitate ongoing activities – security architecture, web application security, mobile application security, security in SDLC, cloud security or network security
• Be a generalist specialist with a good breadth of knowledge across several of security with deep expertise in 2 or 3 areas.
• Good level in English, Dutch is optional but preferred.

What are you looking for?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• Excellent analytical skills
• Passion for your expertise
• True tech-savvy

Why Ahold Delhaize

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Anonymous colleague

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Anonymous colleague

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
Anonymous colleague

Meet your colleagues

Solution Architecture Manager

"We need to offer the best digital experience: that's our goal!"
Robert Němec Solution Architecture Manager

Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA

"An endless race we must win"
Christy Elgee Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA