Join our Edge.Os Cluster as a Senior Data Engineer! 
Retail media is booming, and we’re building a cutting-edge platform to support all Ahold brands in Europe with a comprehensive retail media suite. Get to work in a high traffic environment on a SaaS solution that will be utilized by approximately 15 different brands across Europe.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience and a strong track record of building and operating modern data platforms at scale. You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, driving engineering best practices, and influencing the technical direction of a data platform. You combine deep expertise in data engineering with the ability to mentor others and elevate engineering quality across the team.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.
•    Design and evolve scalable batch and streaming data platforms that process millions of records across multiple Ahold Delhaize brands.
•    Drive engineering excellence by defining and promoting best practices in Databricks, Spark, dbt, Python, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
•    Act as a technical mentor for data engineers, helping raise the engineering maturity of the team.
•    Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our data platform and pipelines.
•    Take ownership of data quality standards and operational excellence across our data products.
•    Partner with platform engineers and architects to shape the future direction of our data platform.
•    Lead technical discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and help teams make sound engineering decisions.

Your new team and office.
In the ad-tech cluster, we are developing and implementing a retail media SaaS solution for all Ahold Delhaize brands in Europe. Retail media involves selling advertisement space on our digital touchpoints or in-store. Examples include:
•    Promoting brands like Tony Chocolonely when customers search for chocolate on our website or app.
•    Displaying advertisements on big screens inside and outside stores.
•    Featuring supplier-branded banners on homepage or category pages.
•    Exploring new territories as retail media is a rapidly growing field.

Our ad-tech cluster, part of the Customer Tech Platform, is responsible for a flexible, cost-efficient, high-end retail media suite with extensive functionality and a growing number of brand users. We have a scale-up vibe with 5 teams and counting. A mature agile approach (no frameworks) helps you excel and showcase your skills.

Together with your team of 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

Fundamentals
•    5+ years of experience in data engineering.
•    Strong hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark in production environments.
•    Strong experience with dbt, including data modeling, testing, and incremental processing.
•    Strong SQL skills.
•    Strong Python development skills.
•    Strong experience designing and operating batch and streaming data pipelines.
•    Experience with modern data platform architectures such as lakehouse and medallion architectures.
•    Experience optimizing performance, reliability, and cloud costs at scale.
•    Experience with Kafka.
•    Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Collaboration and Enablement
•    Proven ability to mentor and support other engineers.
•    Strong opinions on data engineering best practices backed by practical experience.
•    Ability to drive technical standards and engineering quality across teams.
•    Comfortable leading technical discussions and explaining architectural trade-offs.
•    Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have
•    Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) and CI/CD practices.
•    Experience with advanced streaming architectures and event-driven systems.
•    Experience with data observability, monitoring, and governance tooling.
•    Experience with Python or Scala.
•    Experience in retail, e-commerce, or other high-volume data environments

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 105K 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 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! 

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