Data Platform Engineer

Vacancy details

General information

Organisation

Headquarter The Netherlands  

Reference

2026-36802  

Publication start date

09/07/2026

Publication date

09/07/2026

Position description

Job title (website)

Data Platform Engineer

Type of vacancy

Job

Contractual hours

32-40

Field of expertise

Headquater

Summary

  • As a Data Platform Engineer, you contribute to the further development of Jumbo’s modern data platform. You help shape a scalable platform by implementing governance standards that enable teams to work efficiently, and reliably with data.
  • You work within the Data Platform Governance team on further developing Jumbo’s modern cloud-based data platform. Together with your colleagues, you develop governance and platform standards, and automation that support the adoption and scalability of data across Jumbo.
  • At Jumbo, data plays an important role in improving processes, customer experience, and decision-making. By making data discoverable, reliable, and governed at scale, you help teams across the organization work smarter and faster.
  • You collaborate closely with data platform engineers, architects, and platform teams within the Tech & Data domain. In addition, you work together with data producers and data consumers on future-proof platform solutions.

Job description

As a Data Platform Engineer, you help shape scalable governance and platform solutions within a modern cloud data environment. You work on platform development, governance standards, and reliable platform capabilities.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Defining governance standards, quality standards, and access management;
  • Manage metadata across Jumbo's Unity Catalog;
  • Defining engineering standards and platform guidelines;
  • Building CI/CD workflows using GitHub and Terraform;
  • Improving scalability, observability, and reliability;
  • Making technical decisions around platform architecture;
  • Collaborating with stakeholders across multiple domains.

You will work within the Tech & Data domain at the Jumbo Tech Campus in Veghel. Here, we build and improve scalable cloud data solutions that support teams across the entire organization.


At Jumbo, things move fast. We continuously improve and encourage initiative. You will work in an informal environment with short lines of communication, where collaboration, ownership, and innovation are central.

Profile

At Jumbo, we are looking for engineers who take ownership, provide direction, and continuously look for improvements. You combine technical depth with strong communication skills and know how to guide teams in technical decisions.

In addition, you bring:

  • Strong experience with governance and platform concepts;
  • Hands-on experience with Azure, Python and Databricks (Unity Catalog);
  • Experience with scalable cloud-native platform solutions;
  • Experience with GitHub and Terraform,;
  • Experience with observability, reliability, and platform governance;
  • Strong consultancy & stakeholder management skills.

We offer

  • A gross monthly salary between €5,900 and €7,600 based on a 40-hour workweek;
  • An annual bonus of up to 7.5% of your annual salary based on company objectives;
  • 30 vacation days (with the option to buy or sell additional days) and 8% holiday allowance;
  • Pension accrual through the Pension Fund for the Food Industry;
  • Plenty of room for entrepreneurship, growth, and development through our Jumbo Academy, GoodHabitz online training courses, and an education budget;
  • A fresh and diverse lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee, and fresh fruit. You can also work out in our Jumbo Gym for a small fee;
  • Various employee discounts, such as 10% discount on groceries (up to €325 per year), participation in our collective health insurance, and discounts through Benefits at Work.

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Recruitment service

Full service

Position location

Job location

The Netherlands, Veghel, Rijksweg

Candidate criteria

Minimum level of experience required

7-10 years

Minimum level of education required

Bachelor

Handled by

Email

michael.vonharras@jumbo.com

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Department Headquarter

Tech & Data

Selection proces

Geen e-assessment

Contact person (Website)

Michael von Harras

Email contact person (Website)

michael.vonharras@jumbo.com

Phone number contact person (Website)

0614767616