Principal Solutions Engineer

The Fresh Market & You:

Our mission is to make everyday eating extraordinary for our guests. We create a warm, welcoming, memorable experience with exceptional, personal service. We’re looking for a new team member who strives for excellence and brings positive energy, commitment, and a “can-do” attitude to work every day. We value teamwork and celebrate our successes as a team and will value your contribution!

Added Benefits for choosing The Fresh Market Team:

• Team Member discount up to 40%
• Health, Dental, & Vision insurance available for individual, spouse, partner, and family.
• 401K contribution and match for part-time and full-time team members

• Personal time off and additional time off purchase plans are available
• AND much more!

About the Position:

The Fresh Market currently has an opening for an Principal Solutions Engineer in our Store Support Center (099). The Principal Solutions Engineer provides senior-level technical leadership in the design, development, and integration of complex technology solutions across the organization. This role serves as a technical subject matter expert, translating business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and supportable solutions across data, applications, integrations, and cloud technologies.

What You'll Do:

• Provide senior-level technical leadership and expertise for complex solutions spanning applications, data, integrations, and cloud platforms.

• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, and supportable technology solutions.

• Design and develop solution architectures, data models, integration patterns, and technical frameworks to support business and technology initiatives.

• Provide technical leadership for the design and management of application metadata, transactional data, and operational/log data.

• Design and oversee data integration and ETL solutions using technologies such as SSIS, Snowflake, and other integration platforms, including integrations with SAP and other enterprise systems.

• Evaluate and recommend technical solutions, platforms, tools, and technologies based on business requirements, architectural standards, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert and provide guidance to engineers, developers, architects, and project teams on complex technical challenges.

• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency and lead the implementation of appropriate solutions.

• Provide technical leadership cloud-based solutions and data platforms, including Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and related services.

• Ensure data and integration solutions maintain appropriate standards for data quality, security, integrity, and accessibility.

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across application, data, integration, and infrastructure boundaries and drive issues through to resolution.

• Establish and maintain technical documentation, including solution designs, architecture diagrams, data models, integration patterns, and technical standards.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to understand current and future needs and develop solutions that support both immediate requirements and long-term technology strategies.

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineering and development team members, helping establish consistent engineering practices and grow internal technical capabilities.

Qualifications:

At a minimum, what you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data management, or related fields, with a proven track record in enterprise-level data solutions.

• Proficient in database technologies and data modeling tools.

• Experience with data integration tools (SSIS) and ETL/ELT methodologies.

• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure) and their data services.

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and related data warehousing, data modeling, and integration concepts.

• Experience with SAP data architecture, data integration, and enterprise data models preferred.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically about data architecture and management challenges.

• Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum) to oversee data architecture projects effectively.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: Consistent with applicable laws, TFM will make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and team members, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to TFM. This guiding principle applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring and job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination, and access to benefits and training.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, national origin, genetic information, uniformed service, veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law.

The statements in this job description are provided to describe the general nature and level of work expected in this role. While these statements include the essential functions of the job, they are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. As we work as a team, there may be times team members are needed to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities based on business needs.