Medior Data Platform Engineer

As a data platform engineer, you will be working on our data platform named Thor. With Thor, we want to create a self-service, metadata driven data platform where data producers can share their data with the data consumers without the platform team being the bottleneck. This means that we are working hard to enable our users so they can do as much as possible themselves and we can focus on improving and optimizing our pipelines and codebase.

• Smart Scheduling that dynamically changes data pipeline configuration based on historical statistics.
• A versioned data platform that allows the product to scale to other brands.
• Documentation that writes itself.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of a scalable data platform architecture on Azure.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, and infrastructure as code (IaC) templates to streamline deployment processes and ensure consistency.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of data pipelines and analytics workloads on Databricks.
• Enable data producers with self-service capabilities on our data platform granting them the freedom to autonomously share their data to the rest of the organization for data driven insights.

Your new team and office. Together with your team of platform engineers 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 the accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. 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. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

We think it’s important to be part of a high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity to our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to have a look at your resume!

The recipe for maximum impact.

• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in software development.
• Hands-on Python experience incl. solid programming experience in data ingest patterns (streaming).
• Hands-on Azure Cloud, Databricks and Terraform experience.
• Curious, proactive, fast learner able to quickly pick-up new areas.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Perfect communication skills.
• Living in the Netherlands is mandatory.

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 75k including holiday allowance and a profit sharing bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience.
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25.5 regular vacation days and 19.5 ADV days. Enjoy!
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 times more than you as an employee.
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train.
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀 Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t 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. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Ready to contribute to our mission? Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.