Data Platform Engineer

Does DATA and TECHNOLOGY run through your veins?

Are you a person who can be part of our product team who are building and supporting our data platform? Do you also have a keen interest in elevating our quality of engineering (using your own technical and guiding skills) and shaping our data platforms which can help bring our Food and Tech company to the next level?

Then, read on!

Hi, we are AH Technology, food retail reinventors

Albert Heijn goes back. More than 130 years, to be exact. So, for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We did not achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. Over 1,200 stores? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run, and love it. ;-)

So, what is next? Accelerating our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and make better food more easily accessible to everyone. At AH Technology, 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 data platforms and solutions that enable better decisions. 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!

Job Description

As a data platform engineer, you will be working on our data platform named Thor and User Access Management solution. We are building a self-service data platform with the aim that the platform team is not the bottleneck for development. This means that we are working hard to enable other data engineers to do as much themselves whereas we work on improving and optimizing our pipelines and codebase.

Some cool new features we have recently implemented:

• The enablement of streaming data sets
• Custom build User Access Management with fully API based back end
• Documentation that writes itself

Essential Experience Required

• Databricks: Data Engineer Associate Certification (level of expertise or certification itself)
• Terraform: Associate Certification level
• Kafka
• Python/Pyspark skills. (The ability to build a highly performant, simple and clearly structured python package that will be used in production)
• In-depth Azure knowledge (data engineer modules we use are below):

• Eventhub/streaming
• Storage
• Log analytics
• Data explorer
• Event Grid System Topic

Devops: specifically to bridge gap between development and IT:

• Lean software development
• Automate infrastructure and processes

Version Control: Mastery in Git (daily use, getting stuff done in Git, Git workflow, etc)

Desirable

• Kafka optimizations
• Databricks Unity catalog
• Building RESTful APIs
• Further skills level and/or certification:

• Databricks: Certified Data Engineer Professional Certification (level skills or certification)
• Python: PCAP™ – Certified Associate in Python Programming (level or certification)

Responsibilities

• Append to our data platform to take it to the next level with regards to data processing, quality
• Provide a platform that allows structuring of data into a scalable and easily understood architecture
• Work in a multi-disciplined team where you'll build a platform that will be used by your data engineer peers to create beautiful business solutions that create customer value drivers

• Be able to implement/build methodologies as well as (understand how to) scale them together with the businesses
• Maintain a good, current and demonstrable knowledge of adjacent application and market developments both for inspiration and for benchmarking the concepts

Qualifications

• 5+ years industrial experience in the domain of large-scale data platform teams (building a data product)
• Hands-on software engineering experience, incl. solid programming experience in data ingestions patterns (streaming)
• Curious, proactive, fast learner able to quickly picking-up new areas
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Perfect communication skills

What we offer

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• An annual salary up to 99K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss!
• Flexible working hours
• 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, to a maximum of €300 per year
• A company laptop and telephone

Ready to reinvent food retail with us?

Click the apply button and discover how you can work together with diverse and enthusiastic colleagues to make the future of food retail a little brighter each day. Questions? Nora Boujemaaoui, Talent Acquisition Partner can tell you more about this challenging role, via nora.boujemaaoui@ah.nl.