Medior Data Engineer (Databricks, PySpark)

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• A positive attitude
• A healthy curiosity
• True tech-savvy

How you can
make a difference

Join one of the biggest Supply Chains in The Netherlands as a Data Engineer and work in a heavy data driven environment to help rebuild our traditional tech into a modern cutting-edge and more sustainable technology landscape!

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Be a valued team member and a valuable team player, celebrating successes together.
• Learn from experts around you.
• Join an agile scrum team, participating in standups, refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
• Analyze and design applications and data architecture solutions, build code, enforce code quality, develop best practices, and manage deployments.
• Develop applications for business-critical and strategic replenishment processes.
• Creating solid and robust services to solve future needs of replenishment within Albert Heijn group.
• Developing strategic capabilities that make AH a leading food & tech company.

Our Albert Heijn Technology Supply Chain platform aims to create the best supply chain architecture and infrastructure, significantly impacting our processes and enhancing the shopping experience for millions of customers who visit our stores daily. Within this platform, multiple products drive success, each managed by a product team categorized under Replenishment, Logistics, or Transport.

You will join the AH Smart Replenishment Product team. This team focuses on creating and modifying services to support order creation for suppliers, ensuring sufficient stock for over 1,000 Albert Heijn stores. Our goal is to develop a stable and highly available microservice architecture for efficient, event-driven system handling for millions of events. Even small improvements can generate significant benefits.

Exciting products you will work on include:

• A data-driven application that optimizes orders while considering supply chain constraints, resulting in an order that can be fulfilled with minimal operational changes.
• A big-data-driven application used for managing supplier performance that aims at increasing product availability for customers in stores.

Your new team and office.

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 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 an 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 in 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.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in IT, including at least 3 years as a data engineer
• Proficient in Python and/or PySpark, SQL, and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Experience with designing and maintaining SQL databases
• Hands-on experience with Databricks (required), and with cloud platforms—preferably Azure (e.g., Data Lake, Data Factory)
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
• Willing to participate in a shared on-call rotation (approx. every 8 weeks)

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 76k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your 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 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 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. Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

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.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

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