Data Platform Engineer

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Building the foundation of data together

At Albert Heijn, we love progress. Every day, we strive to be a little better—for our customers and our colleagues. That's why we're looking for a Data Platform Engineer who wants to make a difference with us. Will you join our Data Platform Fundament team?

Your new team and office.

Together with your team of Product Owners & Platform Engineers, 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 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 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. So 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

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

As a Data Platform Engineer, you'll work together with an enthusiastic team on the foundation of our data environment. You'll make sure that data and software engineers from different countries within Ahold Delhaize can work with data smoothly and securely. Your responsibilities include:

• Further developing our data platform, for example by building CI/CD pipelines and optimizing data processing.
• Building new integrations with sources such as Kafka, Delta, Event Hub, and Files.
• Designing scalable solutions and supporting users with questions or issues.
• Enabling users to onboard their data and perform their operational tasks independently via our self-service platform.
• Improving our development processes together with the team and ensuring stable releases.
• Translating stakeholder requirements into smart, fitting solutions for our platform.

The recipe for maximum impact:

• You have experience writing scalable Python code, following OOP and SOLID principles.
• You are familiar with data processing and streaming.
• You understand event-driven or microservices architectures.
• You have experience managing and supporting infrastructure in Azure (or any other public cloud), focusing on availability, scalability, and reliability.

Your key responsibilities

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or OpenTofu.
• Build modular, version-controlled infrastructure components that are easy to maintain and reuse.
• Deploy workloads on self-managed Kubernetes clusters using helm charts or manifests.
• Containerize and deploy applications with Docker and Kubernetes, leveraging GitOps practices with ArgoCD or Flux.
• Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes for both infrastructure and applications.
• Apply security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, and RBAC.
• Set up monitoring and observability using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Contribute to improving system performance and scalability through data-driven insights and metrics.

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 74k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your experience;  
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy
• 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 An assessment might be part of our selection process.

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