Engineering Manager - Data Management at Albert Heijn

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Engineering Manager - Data Management

Albert Heijn

Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands

8,800 / month

Hybrid

Expert

Starts as soon as possible

Posted today

Vacancy Summary

Lead the future of data management engineering at Albert Heijn. As Engineering Manager, you'll guide the Central Database and Scheduling team to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services across our brands.

Required skills

Scheduling Platforms

Food Retail

communication

Compliance

Cloud Environments

Innovation

Insurance

Shopping

SAFe

Middleware

Growth

Platform Engineering

Operations

monitoring

Team Development

Engineering Best Practices

Reliability Engineering

service

Assessment

Design

Stability

security

Data Management

(D)MJOP

Control

MongoDB

Oracle

Engineering Leadership

Technology

OCI

infrastructure

Certification

Data Platforms

Cost Efficiency

Differentiation

Architecture

FinOps

Access

GC(MS)

Make

CAN

Digital

Training

Delivery

Board

Performance

Azure

Core Data

Database Management (SQL, NoSQL)

Exact

Aligning

Metrics

Resilience

Team Effectiveness

Operational Support

JOIN

understanding

Benefits

Diversity

Maintainability

Capacity Planning

Standards

Time

selection

Teams

Ownership

Culture

English level

Professional

Are you ready to lead the future of data management engineering at Albert Heijn? As Engineering Manager for our Data Management domain, you will empower the Central Database and Scheduling team to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services that keep our core data platforms running smoothly across Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall & Gall.

How You Will Reinvent Food Retail

You will lead, coach, and develop the Central Database and Scheduling team, fostering a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and accountability. You will build empowered, autonomous, T-shaped teams and actively remove non-technical overhead to keep teams unblocked. Your focus will be on ensuring high-quality delivery of database and scheduling services with a strong emphasis on resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence. You will embed security by design principles across all engineering practices and ensure compliance with internal and external security standards. Additionally, you will drive engineering best practices in automation, monitoring, scheduling reliability, and operational support, ensuring consistent quality across the team. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to translate business and platform needs into executable, outcome-focused delivery plans, aligning technical decisions across the team and ensuring adherence to architectural and security guidelines. You will monitor platform performance, incident trends, delivery metrics, and financial spend to continuously improve team effectiveness, efficiency, and service stability. Managing capacity, hiring, and skill development will be crucial to sustaining strong delivery capabilities over time, as you work closely with architecture, product, and security leaders to evolve the data management landscape and ensure it remains robust and future-proof.

Your New Team and Office

As Engineering Manager, you will join the Data Differentiation Platform (DDP) department, responsible for the Cloud, Database Platform, and Middleware & Scheduling services that support Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall & Gall. You will lead two engineering teams (around 30 DevSecOps Engineers) who develop and operate our database platform—the foundation for innovation across all our brands.

Our platform, built primarily on Azure and OCI, provides secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, enabling teams to build and run applications efficiently. We maintain a strong focus on FinOps practices to ensure cost efficiency. Your primary focus is to deliver high-quality, secure, and reliable database and scheduling capabilities, ensuring teams deliver predictably and continuously improve.

The main technologies in scope are Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB, and Control-M, running in both Azure and Oracle Cloud environments.

At Albert Heijn, you’ll work with inspiring peers in data, digital, and tech—a diverse community with a shared goal: making (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. We invest heavily in technology and your career. Our teams work hybrid: from home and at our office next to Zaandam train station.

We value a high-belonging team where everyone feels safe, accepted, and appreciated. We especially welcome candidates who bring new perspectives and diversity to our team. Don’t check all the boxes? Neither do we. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to see your application!

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 €105,000 including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your level of seniority and experience.
A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. You can choose to take that extra time off, convert the extra days into discounts, or sell them for cash.
Flexible working hours.
Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Top 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 approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged into customer demands. Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

The world around us has changed significantly, impacting the lives of our customers, colleagues, and partners. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier, and more sustainable food. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified, underscoring our purpose to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business meets high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission? If you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape, then hop on board and join us on our expedition. If you’d like to learn more before applying to Albert Heijn, we’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.

About Albert Heijn

Albert Heijn

Bij Albert Heijn geloven we dat eten en drinken een essentiële rol speelt bij de grote uitdagingen in de maatschappij. Het levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan een gezonde levensstijl, het verbindt mensen en draagt bij aan een beter klimaat en daarmee een duurzame samenleving. Onze missie is dan ook: ‘Samen beter eten bereikbaar maken. Voor iedereen.’ Elke dag zit boordevol keuzes en met alle mogelijkheden van tegenwoordig is kiezen niet altijd makkelijk. Daarbij snapt Albert Heijn dat beter eten voor iedereen anders is, maar uiteindelijk willen we allemaal hetzelfde: ons goed voelen en lekker in ons vel zitten. Dit kunnen we realiseren door gezonder te eten. Door te weten waar ons voedsel vandaan komt en er samen van te genieten. Door een bijdrage te leveren aan het beter achterlaten van de wereld voor de generaties na ons. Dat gaat niet vanzelf. Daarom nemen we iedereen stap voor stap mee op weg naar beter eten. Albert Heijn Nederland is B Corp gecertificeerd. Deze certificering onderstreept onze missie waarmee we een bijdrage leveren aan een gezonde, sociale en duurzame samenleving. De B Corp certificering wordt toegekend aan bedrijven die voldoen aan hoge normen voor sociale- en milieuprestaties, transparantie en verantwoordelijkheid. Het behalen van de B Corp certificering is een aanmoediging om op de ingeslagen weg verder te gaan. Overal en op elk moment zijn wij de vertrouwde en inspirerende partner van onze klanten, al meer dan 135 jaar. Met meer dan 1.250 winkels, 9 home shop centers, 6 distributiecentra en 125.000 collega’s dragen we samen bij aan onze missie. Wil je weten wat de carrièremogelijkheden zijn? Ga naar werk.ah.nl. Meer weten over wat wij nog meer doen? Ga naar over.ah.nl.

Locations

Zaandam , NL

Website

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