Data Engineer

Apeldoorn | Hybrid | €4800 - €6300 | 32 - 40 hours | 36 leave days

Are you interested in the digital world of Agriculture? Do you want to contribute to the development of sustainable farming systems through digital & data driven solutions? Do you have experience with Databricks and Azure Data Factory
? Then we would like to meet you!

Within our BI & Data Engineering team
, as part of the Group IT Business Applications department, our Data Engineers focus mainly on the gathering, processing and storing of data which is critical to the success of company and satisfying information needs of the stakeholders. Our Azure Data Platform you will be working on, is a critical component in our Data Excellence strategy. It will be your responsibility to extract data from several internal or external sources, connect, combine and model them, in order to make them available to different departments within Agrifirm.

A growing part of the IT landscape of Agrifirm is developed in Microsoft Azure
. Azure Data Factory is used for orchestration and ETL and some ETL is implemented in Databricks. We use Power

BI for dashboarding on top of the Azure Lakehouse data. The Lakehouse has three different layers you will be modelling on. You will be working in a multi-disciplinary team in a network organization and collaborate closely with the Dev Ops team to implement best practices for (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code.

• Maintaining existing processes.
• Execute data transformations and modelling using dbt (Data Build Tool) to structure the data.
• Connecting new data sources.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to industrialize and deploy their algorithms and models into production.
• To deliver value, you will make sure that data is collected from many different structured and unstructured sources, and transported to the platform, in the right format and according to Agrifirm data architecture principles.

In this role, you work closely together with other Data Engineers (4-eye principle) and you report to the IT Lead BI & Data Engineering.

• A gross monthly salary of €4.800,- up to €6.300,- depending on experience.
• Approx. 36 free days (23 holidays & 13 ATV based on a full-time job).
• Laptop and an iPhone.
• Good secondary employment conditions.
• Extensive development opportunities through our Agrifirm Academy.

• At least five years of relevant working experience.
• Must-have tooling experience:
  Databricks (using notebooks and clusters), dbt (data build tool) for transformational work, Azure Data Factory.
• Experience in working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• At least a Bachelor degree, preferably in the field of IT.
• Knowledge on CI/CD.

At Royal Agrifirm Group, we strive for an inclusive culture, in which all of our employees can say: “I’m a valued member of a winning team, doing meaningful work in an environment of trust.” Embedded in our company culture are our STARvalues, representing not only what we value but also how we act; S harp, T ogether, A mbitious and R esponsible.

We have the reach to bring different players and different worlds together. Combining the ideas, skills and knowledge of all of our employees enables us to be at the forefront of the development of new concepts, products and tools to deliver on our purpose, a responsible food chain for future generations.

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An online assessment is part of the application procedure.