Senior Platform Engineer

NIBC is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer.

• Location: The Hague
• Time type: Full time

What will you do?

You will help us maintain and improve NIBC's centralized Cloud Data Platform. This role will position you as an enabler of several business-oriented teams within the Data and Analytics department. You will onboard all core data of NIBC, ensure a stable and secure platform while implementing (new) functionality to further accelerate development by the business spokes. Furthermore, you and the team of data and platform engineers will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the platform, ensuring it runs as smoothly as possible. You will focus on automating repetitive tasks and addressing failing pipelines at the root cause.

As a strong senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our platform infrastructure, written in Terraform and deployed through Azure pipelines. You will deploy solutions in Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, DBT and Azure Function Apps(Python). You understand the importance of continuous improvement with regard to security and adherence to the high standards of the financial industry. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Azure and platform maintenance. Experience with Terraform, ADLS, Azure Data Factory, DBT, Databricks, CI/CD, cloud security and cloud networking is a pre.

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve the platform: Continuously improve the way we operate the platform, enabling further scalability and reducing maintenance costs and compute costs;
• Implementation: Implement solutions directly within the Cloud Platform, ensuring they meet business needs and technical standards;
• Solution design: Provides solution designs/software engineering. Understand that an IT migration comes with many puzzle pieces, for which both deep technical knowledge and understanding of the business requirements and timelines are essential.
• Data Quality Assurance: Ensure high data quality by building robust solutions, conducting thorough testing, and maintaining documentation;
• Collaboration: Work closely with the business domain, IT experts, and your own colleagues of the Data & Analytics department;
• Compliance: Adhere compliance to IT security standards and best practices
• Documentation: Maintain documentation of ingestion patterns and architectural decisions. Furthermore, wiki is our guidance!;
• Continuous learning and development: You have a passion for what you do, so you use your development budget to develop your hard and soft skills. You are up to date with industry trends and best practices in data ingestion, emerging technologies and building a secure platform.

Your team

We created the Data & Analytics department to enable our business to deliver high-quality data products using a modern cloud data platform. The mission of this technology driven department is to ensure that data can be sourced, ingested, integrated, and consumed through well designed, automated, and simple to use services and frameworks. The platform team is pivotal in this effort, being responsible for a stable platform and enabling the business-oriented spokes to deliver value. We run the maintenance of the platform and enable new interfaces e.g., scraping, and manual files uploads.

NIBC as an IT employer

NIBC IT consists of several domains and together NIBC IT aims to be one of the driving forces behind the digital transformation of our bank, an ongoing process that will profoundly change the relationship with our clients and the way we do business. We are closely connected and have short lines of communication. If you have a good idea today, you may be elaborating it tomorrow. IT is forever changing and so is NIBC and in order for us to be able to keep on changing, we need sophisticated individuals to help us lead the bank into the future.

What’s in it for you?

NIBC is an ambitious environment where together we strive to create a fantastic workplace where you feel safe and challenged to be the best version of yourself. This is in line Professional, Adaptive, Collaborative and Entrepreneurial, since you are in the lead of setting the PACE of your career at NIBC. In addition, you receive a competitive salary, plus:

• Several ways to support your development personally and professionally, a.o.: personal development budget to spend at your own discretion, professional budget provided by your manager to develop yourself in your work, In-house learning offering;
• NIBC embraces the Hybrid way of Working. This means that we support working from home as well as encourage our colleagues to come to the office. NIBC's guideline is to spend at least half of the working time at the office;
• Travel expenses or NS Business Card 1st class;
• 32 holidays (which do not have to be registered);
• Excellent pension scheme (26% NIBC contribution);
• A voucher to improve your home office;
• The opportunity to take ownership and show initiative in your role. We are always open to new ideas, and encourage to use your voice;
• The nature of our Grow to Make a Difference program enables you to be in charge of your own development;
• Two staff associations: YoungNIBC and MyLeisure;
• Vitality program, annual company-wide sports & leisure days;
• Monthly internet allowance;
• Laptop and a company phone;
• Excellent facilities at the office (Coffeecorner, Restaurant, Exchange bar);
• Last but not least, a fun workplace.

What do you bring?

• Educational Qualification: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field from a recognized university;
• Experience: 10+ years of work experience as a Platform/Data Engineer or as a Software Engineer in a data environment;
• Analytical mindset;
• Craftsmanship for your role;
• Strong market knowledge of Data & AI tooling;
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Azure, Terraform, Python, Databricks, DBT and Azure Data Factory;
• At least 5 years of work experience with Cloud & Data Platforms: Strong familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud), Power BI, data lakes, and modern data architectures;
• Experience with working in a Scrum/Agile environment;
• Communication: Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, able to bridge the gap between technical and business teams, and alignment with the enterprise architect;
• Experience with risk or banking-specific regulations is an advantage.