Senior Data Engineer

Discover Your Next Challenge as a Senior Data Engineer

This is what we offer you

• a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution to your pension.

You & your role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will collaborate with product, engineering, and modelling teams to ensure we deliver business value. You will work on the design, development, and maintenance of our data platform, implementing both ETL pipelines and real-time data ingestion and processing, as well as API development to enable seamless data access and integration.

In the Business Lending domain, we support business clients with financial solutions, such as loans, credit facilities, lease, and factoring solutions. Our ambition is to be ahead of the market by enabling 80% of our client requests through fast and seamless digital journeys. Simplification and standardization are crucial to achieve this goal. Our team plays a pivotal role in this transformation, firmly believing that data is a key asset in today’s financial world. Our mission is to support data-driven decision making, to ultimately help more business clients.

With our data platform, we offer solutions that enable straight-through-processing and fully automated credit origination. We maintain client profiles that are continuously updated with data from client and employee journeys, and we implement risk models used for acceptance decisions.

We aim to better understand data: where it comes from, how it is used, and what the quality is. We collaborate with product, engineering, and risk teams to continuously unlock new data sources and improve our data landscape.

Practical examples

• Contribute to the design, scalability, and reliability of our data infrastructure
• Build and optimize data pipelines for both batch and streaming data
• Enable data-driven solutions

Top responsibilities

• Designing and implementing ETL and real-time data pipelines
• Developing and deploying containerized applications and APIs to expose data and services
• Implementing data quality checks and monitoring
• Providing operational support and troubleshooting for data infrastructure
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver business value
• Continuously improving our data engineering practices

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Data Models Analytics and Calculations. Collaboration is our approach; as one focused team within Rabobank, we deliver innovative data solutions. Our culture is open, inclusive, and driven by continuous improvement.

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

You & your talent

• A completed master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or software engineering
• Hands-on experience with ETL development (using PySpark) and real-time data processing
• Experience in designing and implementing data architectures (e.g., lakehouse)
• Familiarity with SQL & NoSQL databases
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience with API development (preferably FastAPI)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure or GCP)
• AWS services is a plus: Glue, Lambda, MSK, S3, API Gateway, Fargate, DocumentDB
• Experience with Docker, Terraform, and building CI/CD pipelines
• To be considered for this position you must be located in the Netherlands.

Questions about the role? Reach out to George Vermeer, Sr Tech Lead: george.vermeer@rabobank.nl