Senior Data Engineer (dbt, Databricks, Apache Spark, Python)

How you can make a difference

Join our Edge.Os Cluster as a Senior Data Engineer (dbt, Databricks, Apache Spark, Python).

Retail media is booming, and we’re building a cutting-edge platform to support all Ahold brands in Europe with a comprehensive retail media suite. Get to work in a high traffic environment on a SaaS solution that will be utilized by approximately 15 different brands across Europe.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience and a strong track record of building and operating modern data platforms at scale. You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, driving engineering best practices, and influencing the technical direction of a data platform. You combine deep expertise in data engineering with the ability to mentor others and elevate engineering quality across the team.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Design and evolve scalable batch and streaming data platforms that process millions of records across multiple Ahold Delhaize brands.
• Drive engineering excellence by defining and promoting best practices in Databricks, Spark, dbt, Python, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
• Act as a technical mentor for data engineers, helping raise the engineering maturity of the team.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our data platform and pipelines.
• Take ownership of data quality standards and operational excellence across our data products.
• Partner with platform engineers and architects to shape the future direction of our data platform.
• Lead technical discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and help teams make sound engineering decisions.

Your new team and office.

In the ad-tech cluster, we are developing and implementing a retail media SaaS solution for all Ahold Delhaize brands in Europe. Retail media involves selling advertisement space on our digital touchpoints or in-store. Examples include:

• Promoting brands like Tony Chocolonely when customers search for chocolate on our website or app.
• Displaying advertisements on big screens inside and outside stores.
• Featuring supplier-branded banners on homepage or category pages.
• Exploring new territories as retail media is a rapidly growing field.

Our ad-tech cluster, part of the Customer Tech Platform, is responsible for a flexible, cost-efficient, high-end retail media suite with extensive functionality and a growing number of brand users. We have a scale-up vibe with 5 teams and counting. A mature agile approach (no frameworks) helps you excel and showcase your skills.

Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers easier access to healthy food. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal: to create digital solutions that make online shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech, and that includes investing in your career. Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office.

Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉.

The recipe for maximum impact

Fundamentals

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark in production environments.
• Strong experience with dbt, including data modeling, testing, and incremental processing.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Strong experience designing and operating batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Experience with modern data platform architectures such as lakehouse and medallion architectures.
• Experience optimizing performance, reliability, and cloud costs at scale.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Collaboration and Enablement

• Proven ability to mentor and support other engineers.
• Strong opinions on data engineering best practices backed by practical experience.
• Ability to drive technical standards and engineering quality across teams.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and explaining architectural trade-offs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with advanced streaming architectures and event-driven systems.
• Experience with data observability, monitoring, and governance tooling.
• Experience with Python or Scala.
• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or other high-volume data environments.

What we offer

• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 more than you as an employee.
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train.
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies.
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, up to a maximum of €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

“We need to offer the best digital experience: that's our goal!”

Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager

“An endless race we must win”

Christy Elgee, Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA