Senior MLOps/Data Engineer

• Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Contract: Employee, Full Time
• Category: Engineering
• Team: LP PU Directions
• Department: Platform Products

Senior MLOps/Data Engineer

What you'll do

• Orchestrate and maintain ML pipelines (ingest → feature engineering → train → evaluate → deploy→monitor→repeat) on Azure + Databricks
• Standardize experimentation using MLflow or similar tools (tracking, artifacts, model registry, stages)
• Automate jobs with Databricks Workflows and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps)
• Implement data & model observability: freshness/completeness, drift (features/model), training/serving skew, SLA/SLO monitoring
• Ensure security & compliance
• Handle incidents and post-mortems for ML pipelines and serving infrastructure

What you'll need

• Excellence in Python software engineering and developing tests
• Fundamental understanding of Machine Learning
• 3+ years in Data Eng/MLOps roles
• Strong PySpark
• Hands-on with Databricks and Delta Lake
• CI/CD for data/ML (Git, PR workflow, automated tests, environment pinning)
• Azure basics
• Monitoring and building dashboards
• Clear communication; operational-excellence mindset (SLA/SLO ownership)

What's nice to have

• Unity Catalog experience
• Databricks Feature Store
• Terraform for workspace/clusters/jobs/UC objects
• Telemetry domain exposure
• Optimize PySpark jobs (partitioning, caching, etc.) and cost (autoscaling, spot).

What we offer

A competitive compensation package, of course.

Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.

Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.

Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.

Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.

Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.

Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.

Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.

Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community.

Enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.

Meet your team

We're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.

Work with a team of 3,300+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers.