Senior Data Engineer Data Factory

• As a Senior Data Engineer at Schiphol, you see the direct impact of your work. You develop solutions for real-time challenges, such as optimizing wait times and dynamically routing passengers, enhancing the overall airport experience.
• The Central Data Factory team is known for its strong collaboration with various departments. We create robust data pipelines that ensure data integrity and safety, contributing to a data-driven culture within Schiphol.
• With 3,000 proud colleagues, we work toward our mission: "the world's most sustainable and high quality airports.

Connecting your world

As a Data Engineer, you will help us build a production grade cloud environment. In this role, you will closely work together with our Core Data Platform team, various (internal) business stakeholders and multiple data providers. How you achieve results in this? That’s up to you. We trust in the way you can distinguish between main and secondary issues and make connections. You put your talents to work at:

• Identifying the integration requirements of several data sources.
• Designing, implementing, and testing cloud based (Azure) data intensive applications,
• Collaborating with Lead Engineers, Data Architects & Enterprise Architects for technical solutions,
• Helping team members with technical questions, and
• Coaching junior team members.

The Central Data Factory team is a team of data engineers within Data, AI & Analytics (DnA), whose primary purpose is to establish robust data pipelines for retrieving data from internal and external sources, and eventually send it to the Core Data Platform. The team works closely with different departments within Schiphol, some of them are AI, BI, IoT, Data Governance and some more.

You've got this

Schiphol connects your world. With the best people, we make travel safe and responsible. You contribute to this with with your unique talents, such as taking the initiative to make improvements. Also, you are the talent who approaches problems as a challenge and finds a good solution for them at lightning speed. In addition, for this position you have:

• 5+ years experience with data-driven solutions, including production data-pipeline deployment and management.
• Strong Scala, Java, or Kotlin skills (2+ years hands-on experience preferred).
• Experience with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Azure EventHub).
• Proficiency in data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Beam) for batch and streaming pipelines.
• Understanding of logging and monitoring importance (preferably Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
• 1+ year experience with cloud platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure).
• Familiarity with DevOps technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).

You get this

• € 5173 to € 7176 gross per month (Schaal 13).
• A 13th month (year-end bonus).
• The possibility to work 4 x 9 hours in a 36-hour work week.
• An NS Business Card that fully reimburses travel by public transportation to and from work.

These are just some of our terms of employment that come with this position (based on a 36-hour work week). Schiphol Group has even more to offer you. For the complete overview of all terms and conditions of employment, please visit Conditions - Werken bij Schiphol Group.

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About the team

Ontdek het vakgebied

The IT & Data department is creating the airport of the future. We do this using the smartest digital solutions, tools and applications. With state-of-the-art technology, we keep the airport running. Our enthusiastic team works on data-driven improvements in our processes, traveller flows and information provision. This is how we contribute to the best possible experience for travellers, customers and employees at and around the airport.