Senior Machine Learning Engineer Commerce
Working every week on our pricing algorithms that help our stakeholders set prices which are affordable for our customers and profitable for Albert Heijn.
This new role will draw on your understanding of the infrastructure needed to run scalable machine learning algorithms in production as well as your knowledge and experience of software engineering best practices. You will facilitate the design and implementation of our data science algorithms on Kubernetes while making sure through monitoring that the algorithms run stable and fast.
Our Commerce Analytics Data Science department consists of +/- 37 enthusiastic analysts, data scientists and machine learning engineers with different professional backgrounds and nationalities. Our team members are passionate, curious and pragmatic, never afraid to get their hands dirty, always learning and adapting.As a senior in the team, you play a crucial role in designing and implementing new solutions and redesigning and improving existing ones. You will also play a role as a mentor and coach for the more junior team members. You will play a crucial role in setting the technical strategy of our team.
You will guide our team as to which technologies we should use, how best to use them and directly contribute to and maintain common infrastructure and tooling used to develop products within our team. Your vision for data science software engineering practice will set the bar for our team.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at AH Technology you will:
- Create an overall design for the solution itself and how the solution embeds in a broader set of tooling and processes
- Design, test, build and deploy:
- Our data pipelines on our Databricks environment
- Our Machine Learning model objects
- Our API’s on the Kubernetes platform provided by our tech counterparts
- Communicate your solutions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Play a crucial role in the strategy and impact with our data, you know everything about the current leading technologies
- Mentor and coach juniors and mediors in our team and help raise the maturity of the team
- Own a strong vision on data science/software development
Our offer
At AH Technology, we aim to grow, and that’s only possible if you grow with us. That’s why you get access to best-in-class guidance and inspiring training to shape your development and career. As we work together to build on our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):
- A gross salary up to €92K per year including holiday pay but excluding an interesting bonus on top of your salary
- 20 vacation days plus a budget choice in which you can decide whether you spend it on extra days off (+12,5 days), discounts or pay-outs
- Flexible working hours and a modern hybrid way of working
- An excellent pension plan where Ahold yearly contributes around 6 times your contribution
- A travel allowance or NS Business Card for traveling from your home to Zaandam and back
- Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
- A Macbook and an Iphone
- Working for an amazing Dutch brand with nice and smart colleagues
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 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.
By joining our team, you will be part of AH Technology, a department transcending community consisting of the departments Data, Digital and Tech. You can make your mark on the daily lives of millions of people. At AH Technology, our smart professionals create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring.We’re continually rethinking the way people shop, pay and even enjoy food. That’s why we’re investing heavily in data, tech and digital to further transform Albert Heijn into a leading Food Tech company. Are you curious about your colleagues? At AH Technology you work with highly qualified professionals in an open environment.
Expertise is valued, we learn from each other, and we have the freedom to create innovative solutions and make a real impact. As a Medior Data Scientist, you are part of the Strategy & Analytics department. Your colleagues will be other engineers and scientists, with a background in AI, Computer Engineering, Econometrics, Psychology, as well as other data-savvy people.
Together with them, you play an essential role in creating impact through advanced data analysis. Next to this, other Albert Heijn departments such as our Digital and eCommerce team play a key role as your stakeholders.
For more information about AH Technology you 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 we know you are bursting with the ambition to keep up with us. You supplement this ambition with:
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Scientist or ML Engineer
- Extensive knowledge of FastAPI, Kubernetes, Helm, argo CD and Github actions
- Good knowledge of working with infra structure as code
- Micro-service architecture
- Good knowledge of Apache Spark and optimization techniques
- Experience with Azure is a plus
- Strong software development skills, able to write solid readable and testable code (Python, packaging, testing, CI/CD)
- A good understanding of the fundamentals underlying industry standard machine learning models
- Cloud experience, able to architect and provision scalable hosting solutions
- Good coaching and communication skills, you are a team player
- Experience in rolling machine learning out in production (MLOps, model life cycle management, monitoring)
- Based in the Netherlands
Apply
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. Apply via the button on this page. We ask you not to send a standard motivation letter, but to formulate an answer to the following questions:
- Why do you think you will be successful in this position and what kind of technical skills do you bring with you for this role?
- What is one of your personal strengths and one skill you wish to improve or develop?
Want to know more before you apply for our role at AH Technology? Peter Dirks, Talent Acquisition Partner Data Science & Analytics, is happy to tell you everything about this vacancy via peter.dirks@ah.nl