Data engineer - Compliancy & Insights platform

Our Engineering Enablement Department has a purpose to accelerate our teams worldwide.  We strive to provide teams with a set of tools and services to enable them to unlock their full potential. In short, we enable them to deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously. The tools and services we provide are built with and for our engineering community. 

As an engineer in engineering enablement platform (EEP), you build products and platforms for our engineers. You contribute directly to creating a state-of-the-art, self-service eco-system of products and automation. This is a mission you will not take on solo, but as a full-fledged member of the enablement team. Following Inner-Sourcing principles, you will work with users and maintainers throughout the whole organization to fit your ideas into the bigger picture: Accelerate our product teams, so they can deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously.

Our product: 

ShadowCat revolutionizes evidence collection by automating the entire process and presenting it in dashboards. Gone are the days of manually gathering evidence. With ShadowCat, the more you align with other engineering enablement products, the more automated your evidence collection becomes. 

ShadowCat also provides deep insights into the efficiency of your software development process. By offering access to standardized metrics and definitions through intuitive dashboards, you can easily identify areas for improvement and optimize your workflow. We look at industry standards such as DORA.

Our main responsibilities:

• End-to-end develop our data platform built on Databricks & Kubernetes

• Integrate new data sources (test automation results, deployments, vulnerabilities)

• Utilize data sources to develop accurate and reliable metrics through automated processes

• Contribute to the design and implementation of a scalable data platform architecture on Azure 

• You are a part of the larger enablement community and help us improve every day

• You work with an “open-source and build yourself” mentality in a corporate environment: inner-sourcing

The recipe for maximum impact:  
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!

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and software development, preferably in large-scale or complex environments 

• Deep understanding of modern data architectures and the ability to design scalable, maintainable, and future-proof solutions that align with business goals 

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly Azure, including designing and deploying cloud-native data solutions 

• Proficient in key technologies such as DBT, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Databricks, Go, and SQL, with the ability to select and advocate for the right tools for the job 

• Demonstrated expertise in optimizing performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of data pipelines and analytics workloads, leveraging best practices and emerging technologies 

• Experience architecting and implementing CI/CD pipelines, building robust scrapers, automation scripts, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to streamline and standardize deployment processes 

• A passion for navigating and thriving in complex, ambiguous environments, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement 

• Strong architectural vision and the ability to contribute to the technical roadmap, ensuring the product remains innovative, secure, and adaptable to future needs 

• Proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, code quality, and knowledge sharing within the team 

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

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 €107k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience 

• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss! 

• 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 Heijn, food retail reinvents

🚀 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.