Medior Data Scientist (Python, Azure, Databricks, Spark)

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Your day is done—you’ve pushed your code, and it’s already been reviewed and merged. Now it’s time to grab some groceries on the way home. Walking through the refrigerated aisles of your local Albert Heijn store, you spot a great bargain—salad leaves marked down to 70%, thanks to a dynamic discount algorithm you helped develop, ensuring products sell before expiration and avoiding waste.

As you walk towards the bakery department, the aroma of freshly baked goods fills the air. You take pride in knowing that your optimized baking plan is behind the freshness and quality of these products. Stepping out onto the street you realize that it’s not just your local store—these algorithms run in more than a thousand stores across the Netherlands and Belgium.

Does a job with such tangible impact at such scale motivates you? Do you want to use your skills to solve a wide set of practical and challenging problems? We’re looking for curious, collaborative people who care about impact and learning to join and strengthen our Operations Analytics and Data Science team!

As Medior Data Scientist you:

• Improve our algorithms through analysis, modelling and experimentation
• Design, build, test, and productionize algorithms in collaboration with engineers and analysts
• Work on ETL pipelines to make sure we work with up-to-date and correct data
• Convey complex ideas to different audiences in an effective manner
• Work in multidisciplinary product teams closely to our business stakeholders
• Share your knowledge with and learn from other team members
• Work with colleagues who value open discussion, constructive code reviews, and diverse perspectives.

We’re looking for candidates with:

• A Master in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Econometrics, Computer Science, or other relevant studies
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and Applied Statistical techniques
• Strong knowledge of Python
• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience using modern software development practices (IDEs, Unit testing, Version Control, CI/CD, etc.)
• Experience with generative AI–assisted coding (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) and the ability to prompt effectively, assess suggestions critically, and uphold security and quality standards.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms, Databricks and Spark is a plus

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

You can also read more about some of the technical details of our work on our blog: https://blog.ah.technology

What we offer:

• A salary up to €75K gross per year, including holiday allowance (8%). On top of that you will receive a profit share
• 25,5 vacation days
• A budget choice in which you can decide whether you spend it on extra days off (+19,5 days), discounts or pay-outs
• Courses from our Albert Heijn TOP Academy
• Hybrid working (2–3 days in the office) and flexible hours
• An excellent pension plan with a personal contribution of 6.2%
• A travel allowance for traveling to and from Zaandam
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• A MacBook and an iPhone
• 10% discount on your grocery shopping in our Albert Heijn stores, up to €300 per year

We find it important that you can be yourself at Albert Heijn in an environment that is open to different perspectives, an environment where we are curious and appreciate each other.

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.

Apply

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. Apply via the button on this page. We ask you not to send a standard motivation letter, but to formulate an answer to the following questions: 

• Why do you think you will be successful in this position and what kind of technical skills do you bring with you for this role?
• What is one of your personal strengths and one skill you wish to improve or develop?

Want to know more before you apply for our role at AH Technology? Peter Dirks, Talent Acquisition Partner Data Science & Analytics, is happy to tell you everything about this vacancy via peter.dirks@ah.nl

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