Albert Heijn
Jobid=1921952af712 (0.099)
Wat ga je doen?
We're looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to
join the Retail Finance cluster within Albert Heijn's Retail
Business Platform. Someone who combines deep technical expertise
with genuine passion for retail technology and the ability to
elevate entire engineering organisations.
Retail Finance
is visible in everything we do. It needs to be reliable, robust,
and ready for whatever business ambition the organisation pursues.
In this role, you'll provide hands-on technical leadership, driving
the transformation from our traditional Oracle landscape into a
modern, cutting-edge tech foundation. You won't just architect
solutions. You'll roll up your sleeves, write code alongside our
teams, and set the standard for engineering excellence.
We're specifically seeking someone who understands the Retail
Finance domain inside and out. Not just the technology, but the
business problems we're solving: balancing reliability with
flexibility, ensuring compliance while enabling speed. You should
also have hands-on experience with agentic development. We're
pioneering GenAI-powered development capabilities that are
fundamentally changing how we build software, and we need a
technical leader who can guide our teams into this new paradigm
with credibility and expertise.
If you're a thought
leader who's equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture,
pair-programming with developers, and leading complex legacy
transformations, we want to hear from
you.
This is how you will reinvent
food retail.
•
Engineering Excellence: Raise
the bar on software delivery across our platform. Drive
improvements through DORA metrics, world-class reliability and
observability, rapid incident response, and disciplined technical
debt management. Champion AI-assisted development and testing as
the new standard.
• Core
Modernisation: Lead the strategic transformation of
our Oracle legacy stack. Design and implement robust migration
paths to modern data platforms and services using our Kotlin/React
stack and microservices architecture. This is the heart of the
role.
• Technical Software
Architecture: Drive end-to-end technical software
architectures together with Architecture on complex programmes and
initiatives within Retail Finance (and cross-platform) to achieve
the desired technology transformation of our core.
•
Agentic Development
Leadership: Lead our transformation into agentic
coding practices. Guide teams in leveraging GenAI-powered
development tools effectively, establishing patterns and guardrails
that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality. This is a key
area where you can make a real difference.
•
Paved Roads & Integration
Patterns: Create, maintain, and promote Paved Roads
delivering modern engineering patterns for integration, backend and
frontend, including GraphQL APIs, streaming data integration with
Apache Kafka, and event-driven workflows. Make the right way the
easy way.
• Technical
Mentorship: Provide hands-on guidance to fellow
engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work
environment. Strengthen the engineering community through code
reviews, pairing, and leading by example.
•
Thought Leadership: Stay ahead
of industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to retail
finance. Partner with architects to evolve our technology strategy
and keep our landscape future-proof.
•
Cross-functional Collaboration:
Work closely with architecture and product teams to understand
challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement
effective solutions.
•
Knowledge Building: Create
clear, comprehensive documentation for engineering processes,
configurations and best practices. Make knowledge transfer
effortless and maintainability a given.
•
Problem Solving &
Resilience: Troubleshoot complex issues across our
platform, driving root cause analysis and implementing lasting
fixes. Turn incidents into learnings that strengthen the entire
system.
• Prototyping &
Validation: Build prototypes to test ideas quickly.
Conduct rigorous testing to ensure solutions are reliable, scalable
and performant before rolling out at scale.
•
Innovation: Create a Retail
Finance landscape that has the functional quality, agility and
flexibility to promptly respond to the company's
ambitions.
Your new team and
office.
Together with the teams 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
access 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 in
Zaandam.
We think it’s important to be part of a
highly 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 to 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!
The recipe for maximum
impact.
•
Education: Bachelor's or
Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a
related field.
• Experience:
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with
proven impact in architecture and technical leadership. You've
shaped platforms that scale, and you can show results.
•
Legacy Transformation
Experience: You've done this before. You've led
organisations through the transition from legacy, monolithic
finance systems to modern, scalable frameworks, and you understand
the patience, pragmatism and technical rigour it requires.
Experience migrating from Oracle or similar systems is highly
valued.
• Finance Systems
Expertise: You have deep expertise in designing and
delivering modernisation solutions for large-scale, distributed
finance systems. You command legacy-to-modern migration patterns
and have hands-on experience implementing event-driven, API-first,
and cloud-native architectures. You can show results.
•
Kotlin/React Stack Proficiency:
You can lead the Retail Finance engineering
community to a Kotlin/React based stack and practices befitting
that stack. You're comfortable challenging and operationalising
strategic architecture while liaising with product managers,
engineers, and architects.
•
Data Migration Mastery: You
bring expert knowledge of data migration strategies, including data
modelling, schema evolution, and integration with modern databases
and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka. You've built robust
pipelines ensuring reliable, secure, and compliant transfer of
finance and master data at enterprise scale.
•
API Design Excellence: You're
skilled in both REST and GraphQL API design, creating flexible,
consumer-driven interfaces that downstream finance applications and
analytics teams actually want to use. You think in contracts and
understand the value of well-designed access points.
•
Data Governance &
Security: You bring strong experience in data
governance, security, and lifecycle management. You know how to
integrate and expose diverse finance master data (transaction
records, vendor payments, pricing, promotions) through
standardised, reusable services. Asynchronous messaging, pub/sub
patterns and microservices architecture are second nature.
• Hands-on Coding
Excellence: You write code, not just architecture
diagrams. You have recent, hands-on coding experience applying
modern development practices and tools. You bring deep
understanding of software quality, secure coding practices, and
managing complex changes in a regulated environment.
•
Infrastructure as Code:
You have familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Agentic Development
Fluency: You have hands-on experience with
GenAI-powered development, including tooling like MCP, AI gateways,
or agentic coding workflows. Ideally, you've used these tools to
ship software and can credibly guide others to do the same.
• Problem-Solving & Analytical
Rigour: You bring excellent analytical skills and
meticulous attention to detail. You thrive on debugging complex
distributed systems and turning ambiguity into clarity.
• Communication &
Influence: You communicate technical concepts
effectively to both engineers and business stakeholders. You're
comfortable being a visible technical voice and can build alignment
across diverse teams.
•
Bonus: Experience with SAP or
PeopleSoft is a plus.
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 that can lead up to 120K including holiday allowance and a
flexible bonus.
• 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 times more than you as an
employee;
• A travel allowance or a
NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
• 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 (Mac/Windows)
and telephone (iPhone or Android)
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 an
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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Wat we
vragen?
- True
tech-savvy - Passion for your
expertise - An entrepreneurial
attitude
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