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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Platform Engineer - **Company:** Albert Heijn - **Location:** Schiphol, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €8,833.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Object-Oriented Software Development, Role-Based Access Control, Data Streaming, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Solid Principles, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Databricks - **Published:** July 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://easyapply.jobs/r/vIxocWv26WfRZvsqD1X ## About the Role * 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar technical, hands-on role. * You have experience writing scalable Python code, following OOP and SOLID principles. * You have experience with a modern lakehouse stack. Databricks (Spark), Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog preferred. * You are deeply familiar with data processing and streaming. * You have experience managing and supporting infrastructure in Azure (or another public cloud), with a focus on scalability and reliability. * Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders * You're tech savvy, pro-active and have a big passion for tech ## Description As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll work together with an enthusiastic and high-performing team on the foundation of our data environment. You will make sure that data and software engineers from different countries within Ahold Delhaize can work with data smoothly and securely. Our data platform is fully self-service: we provide the connectors and tooling for software engineers to easily onboard their own data, while they remain responsible for delivering it into the platform., * Further develop our data platform and improve our development processes together with the team, ensuring stable and high-value releases. * Build new integration types with sources such as Kafka, Delta, Event Hub, and various file types. * Design and implement Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform (Terragrunt). * Build modular, version-controlled infrastructure components that are easy to maintain and reuse. * Collaborate on CI/CD (GitHub Actions) pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment for both infrastructure and applications. * Optimize large-scale data processing pipelines for performance, cost, and reliability. * Apply security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, and RBAC. * Enable users to onboard their data and perform their operational tasks independently via our self-service platform. * Design scalable solutions and support users with questions or issues. * Translate stakeholder requirements into smart, fitting solutions for our platform. Your new team and office. Together with your team 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. 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