Senior Machine Learning Engineer Commerce

What are you looking for?

How you can make a difference

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Albert Heijn Technology, you will be part of our ambitious Data Science team. You will work closely together with Data Scientists as well as business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable and robust data science products that improve Albert Heijn’s operations and add value for millions of Albert Heijn customers. Working every week on our pricing algorithms that help our stakeholders set prices which are affordable for our customers and profitable for Albert Heijn.

This new role will draw on your understanding of the infrastructure needed to run scalable machine learning algorithms in production as well as your knowledge and experience of software engineering best practices. You will facilitate the design and implementation of our data science algorithms on Kubernetes while making sure through monitoring that the algorithms run stable and fast.

Our Commerce Analytics Data Science department consists of +/- 37 enthusiastic analysts, data scientists and machine learning engineers with different professional backgrounds and nationalities. Our team members are passionate, curious and pragmatic, never afraid to get their hands dirty, always learning and adapting. As a senior in the team, you play a crucial role in designing and implementing new solutions and redesigning and improving existing ones. You will also play a role as a mentor and coach for the more junior team members. You will play a crucial role in setting the technical strategy of our team. You will guide our team as to which technologies we should use, how best to use them and directly contribute to and maintain common infrastructure and tooling used to develop products within our team. Your vision for data science software engineering practice will set the bar for our team.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at AH Technology you will:

• Create an overall design for the solution itself and how the solution embeds in a broader set of tooling and processes
• Design, test, build and deploy:

• Our data pipelines on our Databricks environment
• Our Machine Learning model objects
• Our API’s on the Kubernetes platform provided by our tech counterparts

• Communicate your solutions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Play a crucial role in the strategy and impact with our data, you know everything about the current leading technologies
• Mentor and coach juniors and mediors in our team and help raise the maturity of the team
• Own a strong vision on data science/software development

Our offer

At AH Technology, we aim to grow, and that’s only possible if you grow with us. That’s why you get access to best-in-class guidance and inspiring training to shape your development and career. As we work together to build on our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• A gross salary up to €92K per year including holiday pay but excluding an interesting bonus on top of your salary
• 20 vacation days plus a budget choice in which you can decide whether you spend it on extra days off (+12,5 days), discounts or pay-outs
• Flexible working hours and a modern hybrid way of working
• An excellent pension plan where Ahold yearly contributes around 6 times your contribution
• A travel allowance or NS Business Card for traveling from your home to Zaandam and back
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• A Macbook and an Iphone
• Working for an amazing Dutch brand with nice and smart colleagues

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.

Profile
At AH Technology, you'll be working for one of the world's biggest retailers, and we know you are bursting with the ambition to keep up with us. You supplement this ambition with:

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Scientist or ML Engineer
• Extensive knowledge of FastAPI, Kubernetes, Helm, argo CD and Github actions
• Good knowledge of working with infrastructure as code
• Micro-service architecture
• Good knowledge of Apache Spark and optimization techniques
• Experience with Azure is a plus
• Strong software development skills, able to write solid readable and testable code (Python, packaging, testing, CI/CD)
• A good understanding of the fundamentals underlying industry standard machine learning models
• Cloud experience, able to architect and provision scalable hosting solutions
• Good coaching and communication skills, you are a team player
• Experience in rolling machine learning out in production (MLOps, model life cycle management, monitoring)
• Based in the Netherlands

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

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”

Martin Hronec, Data Science Manager

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."

Martin Hronec, Data Science Manager

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”

Martin Hronec, Data Science Manager

Meet your colleagues

Data Science Manager

Martin Hronec

"All of our team members genuinely love what they do."