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Data Platform Engineer


Vacancy details

General information

Organisation

Headquarter The Netherlands  

Reference

2026-35474  

Publication start date

13/05/2026

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 scalable platform solutions and ingestion frameworks that enable teams across the organization to work safely and reliably with data.
  • At Jumbo, data plays an important role in improving processes, customer experience, and decision-making. By making data scalable and reliable, you help teams across the organization work smarter and faster.
  • You work within the Data Platform team on further developing Jumbo’s modern cloud-based data platform. Together with your colleagues, you work on scalable platform architectures and engineering standards within Jumbo.
  • 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 Senior Data Platform Engineer, you help shape scalable ingestion and platform solutions within a modern cross-cloud data environment. You work on platform development, engineering standards, and reliable platform capabilities.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Leading the development of ingestion frameworks and platform solutions;
  • Designing scalable cross-cloud solutions within Azure, AWS, and Databricks;
  • Defining engineering standards and platform guidelines;
  • Building CI/CD workflows using GitHub and Terraform;
  • Orchestrating workloads and ingestion flows on Kubernetes;
  • Improving scalability, observability, and reliability;
  • Making technical decisions around platform architecture;
  • Collaborating with stakeholders across multiple domains;
  • Coaching and mentoring engineers within the team.


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 software and platform engineering concepts;
  • Excellent Python engineering skills;
  • Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, Databricks, and Delta Lake;
  • Experience with scalable cloud-native platform solutions;
  • Experience with GitHub, Terraform, and Kubernetes;
  • Experience with observability, reliability, and platform governance;
  • Experience coaching and mentoring engineers;
  • Strong stakeholder management skills.

We offer

  • A gross monthly salary between €5,100 and €6,500 based on a 40-hour workweek;
  • An annual bonus of up to 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