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Big Data Engineer

  • Digital & Technology
  • hbo-wo
  • 32-40 hours

Your job

Is this you?

Skills that will come in handy in this job.

You're analytically minded

Main or side issue? You see the difference at once. You get to the heart of matters with ease while maintaining an overall view.

You always find a solution

You turn problems into possibilities. You investigate them thoroughly and have a knack for exposing possible causes.

You thrive on success

You know what you want, how to find it and give it your all to get it. Struggling? You don't give up and step up your efforts.

You're part of the team

You're a sociable person and go out of your way to help your colleagues, even if it means setting your own interests aside.

You're in control

Objectives exist to be achieved; you make it happen. You make realistic plans, delegate responsibilities and maintain the broad view.

You take the initiative

Wait and see? That's not your style. When a choice is needed, you decide fast and smart.

What we offer

You give your best every day, because it makes you happy – and because of these benefits. Based on a 40-hour working week, you can count on:

A salary that grows

A gross monthly salary between
€5.544 and €6.930, with personal growth potential and a collective salary increase of 2.8% in January 2027.

Flexible budget on top

A Benefit Budget of 14.95% (including 8% holiday allowance) comes on top of your gross salary. Have it paid out, buy extra days off or save it for later.

Unlimited Learning

Training to boost your skills, a personal job coach, and thousands of free options to keep growing.

NS-Business Card of your choice

An NS Business Card of your choice. Including first-class travel in your own time.

Pension

A pension plan, with the option to save extra on top.

Annual bonus

An annual personal bonus, based on VodafoneZiggo's yearly results.

What you bring

As a Big Data Engineer at VodafoneZiggo, you help build scalable data products and AI-powered solutions used across the organisation. Depending on your background and ambition, you work on GenAI applications, cloud data platforms, real-time streaming, or large-scale data processing on AWS.

You work closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Owners, platform engineers and business stakeholders to bring data and AI solutions from idea to reliable production use.

What you do

Depending on your experience and team placement, you:

  • design, build and operate data and AI solutions on AWS;
  • develop production-grade data pipelines and backend services;
  • help productionise LLM-powered applications and customer/agent assist solutions;
  • build APIs and cloud infrastructure for data and AI products;
  • work with RAG, vector search, prompt orchestration and AI evaluation patterns;
  • contribute to reliable batch, streaming or AI application platforms;
  • improve observability, monitoring, security and access management;
  • troubleshoot production issues and improve operational stability;
  • apply engineering best practices such as testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews and automation;
  • contribute to reusable standards and patterns within the Big Data Engineering chapter.

What you bring

  • Strong software engineering mindset.
  • Experience with Python or another modern programming language.
  • Interest in data engineering, cloud engineering, streaming or GenAI.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable and testable code.
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies.
  • Good communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams.
  • Ownership mindset: you like to bring solutions from idea to production.
  • Based in the Netherlands and available to work from our Utrecht Central Office two days per week.

Feeling inspired? Apply now!

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