

Albert Heijn
Wat ga je doen?
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As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer atAlbert Heijn Technology, you will be part of our ambitious DataScience team. You will work closely together with Data Scientistsas well as business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalableand robust data science products that improve Albert Heijn’soperations and add value for millions of Albert Heijn customers.Working every week on our pricing algorithms that help ourstakeholders set prices which are affordable for our customers andprofitable for AlbertHeijn.
This new role will draw on yourunderstanding of the infrastructure needed to run scalable machinelearning algorithms in production as well as your knowledge andexperience of software engineering best practices. You willfacilitate the design and implementation of our data sciencealgorithms on Kubernetes while making sure through monitoring thatthe algorithms run stable andfast.
Our Commerce Analytics Data Sciencedepartment consists of +/- 37 enthusiastic analysts, datascientists and machine learning engineers with differentprofessional backgrounds and nationalities. Our team members arepassionate, curious and pragmatic, never afraid to get their handsdirty, always learning and adapting. As a senior in the team, youplay a crucial role in designing and implementing new solutions andredesigning and improving existing ones. You will also play a roleas a mentor and coach for the more junior team members. You willplay a crucial role in setting the technical strategy of our team.You will guide our team as to which technologies we should use, howbest to use them and directly contribute to and maintain commoninfrastructure and tooling used to develop products within ourteam. Your vision for data science software engineering practicewill set the bar for our team.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer atAH Technology youwill:
- Create an overall design for the solutionitself and how the solution embeds in a broader set of tooling andprocesses
- Design, test, build anddeploy:
- Our data pipelines on our Databricksenvironment
- Our Machine Learning modelobjects
- Our API’s on the Kubernetes platformprovided by our techcounterparts
- Communicate your solutions clearly totechnical and non-technicalaudiences
- Play a crucial role in the strategy andimpact with our data, you know everything about the current leadingtechnologies
- Mentor and coach juniors and mediors inour team and help raise the maturity of theteam
- Own a strong vision on datascience/softwaredevelopment
Ouroffer
At AH Technology, we aim to grow, andthat’s only possible if you grow with us. That’s why you get accessto best-in-class guidance and inspiring training to shape yourdevelopment and career. As we work together to build on our brandand your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours perweek):
- A gross salary up to €92Kper year including holiday pay but excluding aninteresting bonus on top of yoursalary
- 20 vacationdays plus a budget choice in whichyou can decide whether you spend it on extra days off(+12,5 days), discounts orpay-outs
- Flexibleworking hours and amodern hybrid way ofworking
- An excellent pensionplan where Ahold yearly contributes around 6 timesyourcontribution
- A travel allowance or NS Business Cardfor traveling from your home to Zaandam andback
- Attractive discounts on various insurancepolicies
- A Macbook and anIphone
- Working for an amazing Dutch brand withnice and smartcolleagues
We’re Albert Heijn, food retailreinventors.
Albert Heijn goes wayback. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people,food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’tachieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll worktomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositionsand staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands andFlanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, webuild, run and loveit.
Together wemake eating better the easy choice. Foreveryone.
The world around us has changed, andsignificantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives ofour customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also onAlbert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with newopportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eatfresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings ustogether, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to theworld. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easychoice. Foreveryone.
Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corpcertified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim tocontribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. BCorp certification is a designation that a business is meeting highstandards of verified performance, accountability andtransparency.
Ready to contribute to ourmission?
Do you want to play an active role inchanging the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on boardand join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first,before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell youeverything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of ourselectionprocess.
By joining our team, you will be part ofAH Technology, a department transcending community consisting ofthe departments Data, Digital and Tech. You can make your mark onthe daily lives of millions of people. At AH Technology, our smartprofessionals create digital solutions that make (online) shoppingsimpler and more inspiring. We’re continually rethinking the waypeople shop, pay and even enjoy food. That’s why we’re investingheavily in data, tech and digital to further transform Albert Heijninto a leading Food Tech company. Are you curious about yourcolleagues? At AH Technology you work with highly qualifiedprofessionals in an open environment. Expertise is valued, we learnfrom each other, and we have the freedom to create innovativesolutions and make a real impact. As a Medior Data Scientist, youare part of the Strategy & Analytics department. Yourcolleagues will be other engineers and scientists, with abackground in AI, Computer Engineering, Econometrics, Psychology,as well as other data-savvy people. Together with them, you play anessential role in creating impact through advanced data analysis.Next to this, other Albert Heijn departments such as our Digitaland eCommerce team play a key role as yourstakeholders.
For more information about AH Technologyyou can also visit https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/ah-technology-albert-heijn
Profile
At AH Technology,you’ll be working for one of the world’s biggest retailers, and weknow you are bursting with the ambition to keep up with us.You supplement thisambitionwith:
- 5+ years of experience as a DataEngineer, Scientist or MLEngineer
- Extensive knowledge of FastAPI,Kubernetes, Helm, argo CD and Githubactions
- Good knowledge of working with infrastructure ascode
- Micro-servicearchitecture
- Good knowledge of Apache Spark andoptimizationtechniques
- Experience with Azure is aplus
- Strong software development skills, ableto write solid readable and testable code (Python, packaging,testing,CI/CD)
- A good understanding of the fundamentalsunderlying industry standard machine learningmodels
- Cloud experience, able to architect andprovision scalable hostingsolutions
- Good coaching and communication skills,you are a teamplayer
- Experience in rolling machinelearning out in production (MLOps, model life cyclemanagement,monitoring)
- Based in theNetherlands
Apply
Do you want to play an active role inchanging the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on boardand join us on our expedition. Apply via the button on this page.We ask you not to send a standard motivation letter, but toformulate an answer to the followingquestions:
- Why do you think you will be successfulin this position and what kind of technical skills do you bringwith you for thisrole?
- What is one of your personalstrengths and one skill you wish to improve ordevelop?
Want to know more before you apply forour role at AH Technology? Peter Dirks, Talent Acquisition PartnerData Science & Analytics, is happy to tell you everything aboutthis vacancy viapeter.dirks@ah.nl
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