Data engineer – Compliancy & Insightsplatform – Albert Heijn – Zaandam
Summary
Data engineer on Albert Heijn's Engineering Enablement team, building 'ShadowCat' — an internal platform that automates compliance evidence collection and provides DORA-style engineering insights. Day to day: developing the data platform end to end on Azure, Databricks and Kubernetes, integrating data sources, and delivering metrics dashboards.
Wat ga je doen?
OurEngineering Enablement Department has a purpose to accelerate ourteams worldwide.We strive to provide teams with a setof tools and services to enable them to unlock their fullpotential. In short, we enable them to deliver quality customervalue quickly and autonomously. The tools and services we provideare built with and for our engineeringcommunity.
Asanengineerin engineeringenablementplatform(EEP), you build products and platformsfor our engineers. You contribute directly to creatingastate-of-the-art, self-serviceeco-systemof products andautomation. This is a mission you will not take on solo, but as afull-fledged member of the enablement team.FollowingInner-Sourcing principles, you will work with users and maintainersthroughout the whole organization to fit your ideas into the biggerpicture: Accelerate our product teams, so they can deliver qualitycustomer value quickly andautonomously.
Ourproduct:
ShadowCatrevolutionizesevidence collection by automating the entire process and presentingit in dashboards. Gone are the days of manually gathering evidence.WithShadowCat, the more you align with other engineeringenablement products, the more automated your evidence collectionbecomes.
ShadowCatalsoprovidesdeepinsights into the efficiency of your software development process.By offering access to standardized metrics and definitions throughintuitive dashboards, you can easilyidentifyareas forimprovement andoptimizeyour workflow. We look atindustry standards such asDORA.
Our main responsibilities:
- End-to-enddevelop our data platform built on Databricks &Kubernetes
- Integratenew data sources (test automation results, deployments,vulnerabilities)
- Utilizedata sources to develop accurate and reliable metrics throughautomatedprocesses
- Contributeto the design and implementation of a scalable data platformarchitecture onAzure
- Youare a part of the larger enablement community and help us improveeveryday
- Youwork with an “open-source and build yourself” mentality in acorporate environment:inner-sourcing
Therecipe for maximumimpact:
We thinkit’simportant to be part of ahigh-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feelsafe,acceptedand appreciated. For this job we arepreferably looking for someone who brings diversity to our team, inthe widest possible sense. Someone who isa greatadditionto our team by bringing other ideas to thetable.
- 5+years of relevant professionalexperience in data engineering, datawarehousing, and software development, preferably in large-scale orcomplexenvironments
- Deepunderstanding of modern dataarchitectures and the ability todesign scalable, maintainable, and future-proof solutions thatalign with businessgoals
- Hands-onexperience with cloud platforms,particularly Azure, including designing and deploying cloud-nativedatasolutions
- Proficientin key technologies such as DBT,Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Databricks, Go, and SQL, withthe ability to select and advocate for the right tools for thejob
- Demonstratedexpertiseinoptimizingperformance,reliability, and cost-efficiency ofdata pipelines and analytics workloads,leveragingbestpractices and emergingtechnologies
- Experiencearchitecting and implementing CI/CDpipelines, building robust scrapers,automation scripts, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates tostreamline and standardize deploymentprocesses
- Apassion for navigating and thriving in complex, ambiguousenvironments, with a proactive approach toproblem-solving and continuousimprovement
- Strongarchitectural visionand the abilityto contribute to the technical roadmap, ensuring theproductremainsinnovative, secure, and adaptable tofutureneeds
- Proventrackrecordof coaching and mentoringengineers, fostering a culture oftechnical excellence, code quality, and knowledge sharing withintheteam
- Excellentcommunication skills, with the ability totranslate complex technical concepts to both technical andnon-technicalstakeholders
What we offer
AtAlbert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you growalong with us. As we work together to build our brand and yourcareer, you can count on (based on40 hoursperweek)
- Anannualsalaryup to€107k including holidayallowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level ofseniority andexperience
- Aminimum of20 dayspaid vacation, optionally12.5daysextra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or wouldyou rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them forcash?You’retheendboss!
- Flexibleworkinghours
- Accessto a challenging training curriculum – AH TechAcademy
- Anexcellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 timesmore than you as anemployee
- Atravel allowance or aNS-businesscard for traveling toand from Zaandam bytrain
- 10%staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to amaximum of €300 peryear
- AfreeMijnAlbert Heijn Premium membership with manybenefits
- Acompany laptop andtelephone
We’re Heijn,food retailreinvents
Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. Sofor millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the AlbertHeijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if itworks today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continuallyrethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customerdemands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores inthe Netherlands and Flanders? Check, we build, run and loveit.
Togetherwe make eating better the easy choice. Foreveryone!
Theworld around us has changed, and significantly at that. Thesechanges have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues andpartners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towardsa new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijnwants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainablefood. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributespositively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eatingbetter the easy choice. Foreveryone!
Readyto contribute to ourmission
Doyou want to play an active role in changing the food retaillandscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on ourexpedition.