ALDI’s exciting world of IT

Our new “ALDI DX – Driving digital value” brand identity brings together all our initiatives, projects and the unique ALDI SÜD IT culture. Our promise: to deliver maximum digital added value for our colleagues, the company and our customers in all our ALDI SÜD stores.

As a manager in our Data & Analytics business unit, Kathrin leads two teams with a total of thirteen colleagues. In this interview, she explains why, in addition to her leadership role, she is particularly fascinated by the topic of generative AI.

How are we at ALDI DX changing our customers’ shopping experience with innovative solutions? For example, they no longer have to wait in queues at the checkout. Our colleagues Pierre and Lennart take you into the exciting world of checkout systems in the latest episode of the ITCS Pizzatime podcast. Listen now!

Ola is a Test Manager in the Transportation Platform team at ALDI DX. In this interview, he tells us about his daily work and reveals the importance of communication in the testing process when it comes to successfully creating customer-centred solutions.

Ievgenii was born and raised in the Ukraine. He came to Germany after the Russian invasion and has now been with ALDI DX for two years, working as a Security Architect. In this interview, he reveals why he made ALDI DX his employer of choice.

As a cross-cell architect, Vishal designs solutions for our marketing teams. He arrived in Germany to join ALDI DX and to top it all off, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, he talks about his journey so far and reveals more about his everyday working life.

At ALDI SÜD, innovation and customer satisfaction go hand in hand. Both SHOP&GO and the new Tap In payment option are prime examples of this. Find out how our Innovation team used AI, cameras and its own app to create one of the largest cashierless stores in the world.

Carola started as a scrum master at ALDI DX in 2020 and is now working as an agile coach. In this interview, she talks about the different facets of her role and which project is currently keeping her on her toes.

With the introduction of electronic shelf labels (ESLs), we have taken an important step towards digital transformation in our stores – and increased customer satisfaction at the same time. Find out here why it wasn’t always easy, but was definitely worth it!

Sabine works as an IT Project Manager at ALDI DX and is part of the Project Management Office team. In this interview, she talks about her everyday work life and reveals how, in her job, she works on something that indirectly benefits her personally as an end customer.

With the ALDI SÜD design system, the Customer Interaction department has created an indispensable tool for the design, development and maintenance of our digital products. We have now been honoured with the prestigious Red Dot Award 2023 in the Interface & User Experience Design category.

Stefanie works as an IT Consultant in the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) team. In this interview, she talks about her everyday work life and explains why she chose ALDI DX as her employer seven years ago.

Pierre began his career at ALDI DX as a working student in 2014. Now, in his role as IT Manager, he leads the team responsible for the POS systems in the eleven ALDI SÜD countries. In this interview, he reveals the qualities that are important for a successful career at ALDI DX.

Data science, agility and business intelligence: We provide answers to the what, how and why at ALDI Data & Analytics Services GmbH in the “BI or DIE” podcast.

Esha has been working as an Engineer in our Data & Analytics unit for two years and is currently also working as a Deployment Manager Business. In our interview, she reveals which project she is working on right now, how she keeps up to date in the fast-evolving world of technology and what tools ALDI DX offers to help her with this.

It is very important to us to provide you as an applicant with authentic insights into the work at ALDI DX. For this purpose, we launched our live stream series “aldi.deepdive(live)”, where we embedded interactive live streams in our job advertisements during a campaign week at the beginning of August. It was a great success!

With our new software-as-a-service application, Global Facilities Management (GFM), we’ve created a solution at ALDI DX that lightens the load for all of the employees in our stores: GFM enables us to digitally process more than 1.6 million maintenance requests per year and reduce costly equipment failures.

Marc, as an architect, and his team are working to make numerous customer touchpoints even more customer-friendly. In this interview, he tells us what makes his work so exciting and which project he is currently involved with.

Agile ways of working are becoming more and more important at ALDI DX. An example of this is the Scrum Master Education Program (SMEP). Carola and Natasha talk about how the program works, why it is so important and why the internal agile community is getting bigger and bigger.

As an IT Manager, Stefan leads the SAP Product Integration team at ALDI DX. In this interview, he reveals what the role as a leader entails for him and how he creates a productive working environment for his team.

Sabine started working at ALDI DX as a developer. In her current role as an Architect, she has an overall view of our entire system landscape.

End of may, we celebrated diversity at ALDI DX with a variety of activities, making it clear that we want to create an inclusive culture for all.

Roland has been working as a Product Owner in our team for 1.5 years. What he enjoys most is working on a product he can relate to.

Since the start of 2023, our employees have the opportunity to work in selected countries other than germany.

Find out how Vishal and his team offer an optimum user experience for our customers.

Find out how we shape the future of retail analytics.

Here is an overview of ALDI DX as an employer.

These job profiles connect the world of ALDI SÜD.