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Platform Data Engineer | Careers at Nederlandse Loterij

Do you have a passion for data and a strong grasp of data engineering paradigms? Do you bring engineering experience that will help innovate and improve how we build our solutions? Get moving and strengthen Nederlandse Loterij as a Data Engineer.

Every year, several colleagues move on to different internal roles. We also encourage this, both vertically or horizontally, but you have to seize the opportunity yourself!

This method allows us to continuously move with the changing gaming market and the media landscape. This way we work faster and smarter!

Taking part in our games should, above all, be fun. That’s why we’re committed to responsible gaming, confirmed by the Responsible Gaming Certificate of Alignment.

Data is at the heart of everything we do. Our team processes large volumes of data using the latest techniques. This allows us and other teams such as marketing, business intelligence, and finance to make the right choices based on reliable information. That's what makes Nederlandse Loterij a data-driven organization.

Thanks to your efforts, the Data Engineering team can expand the data platform to support the organization and enable real-time identification of fraud, anti-money laundering, and possible gambling addictions. In this way, you directly contribute to a happy, healthy, and sporty Netherlands. As a Data Engineer, you score by:

Working on technical solutions that serve other engineering, data, or business-facing teams

Writing your infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and automatically building, testing, and deploying your creations within our CI/CD pipelines

Partnering with our technology department on solution delivery, infrastructure, architecture, and platform teams

Developing and delivering high-quality data solutions that solve specific business problems

Keeping the platform secure by managing governance tooling, identity management, and connectivity

This is probably also something you’d like to know: the Data Management team consists of three teams. We have an open position for the data platform team, responsible for providing the platform for our Data Lake.

You’ll help build and operate our organization-wide data ingestion and connectivity layer — the universal collection point for batch and streaming data.

The data platform team is building the universal big data and AI platform for the entire organization. The team works with Azure Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Python, and dbt. As a universal platform, there is a variety of ingestion patterns in use: streaming, batch, CDC, event-driven, API ingestion, etc.

Nederlandse Loterij is the reliable gambling organization in the Netherlands. It has eight strong brands. We are the market leader, experts, and stand for responsible, fair, and safe gambling. Almost all our revenue goes to a happy, healthy, and sporty Netherlands. In addition to being a gambling organization with a social approach, we are an employer. We work with more than 500 top talents within our organization.

Because we work together and win together, we always have a reason to cheer. Within the Technology team, we help each other to perform, and we aim for joint success! Our differences make us strong together. Movement? That's in our DNA. You and your colleagues feel at home in an environment where no day is the same.

“We are constantly trying out innovative technologies and learning both trough training and from each other. There is a huge amount of knowledge going around in our department. ”

The people who work here like to be on the move, develop themselves on a personal and/or professional level, and strive for success. That makes everyone within Nederlandse Loterij a top talent. Your talent is the sum of:

An education professional credentials, and/or demonstrable expertise in Computer Science or Engineering

3+ years of experience in building data engineering solutions and experience in structured & unstructured data, data lakes, scheduling, and orchestration. You can lead design discussions and own a platform domain end-to-end

Strong proficiency in Python, Spark, and data engineering paradigms, and good knowledge of cloud computing, containerization, CI/CD, and DevOps

Experience in SQL, NoSQL, and database design

For this vacancy, you have very good analytical skills and can quickly apply new skills and concepts. Furthermore, you have a collaborative work style with a focus on achieving goals.

a salary between €4.800,- and €6.800,- gross per month, depending on your experience

a full-time position for 40 hours per week

a healthy and varied lunch in our corporate restaurant for €3,25

Our office in Rijswijk is your official place of work, but you mainly work wherever best suits your activities. See below for other terms and conditions of employment.

The costs you incur to come to the office are fully reimbursed.

Everything you need to work well: laptop, phone, and a home workspace.

You build a good pension with us. Each year, 1.75% of your pension base goes to your pension, and you contribute 6.15% yourself.

Depending on your team, you can work at our modern office in Rijswijk, at home, or another place you like.

We want you to be happy with our work benefits. For example, during five weeks of partner leave, we top up your salary to 100%.

During your traineeship at Nederlandse Loterij, you will receive 30 days’ holiday based on full-time employment, a €1.000 flexible budget and an 8% holiday allowance.

You can use our gym as much as you want. Our personal trainer is ready to help you.

An annual flexible training budget of up to €2,000 enables you to invest substantially in your personal development. We encourage this.

We’re cheering you on from the sidelines.

An opportunity for both parties to sound each other out.

A first meeting at our office in Rijswijk is a good start.

We get to know each other even better. During a meeting and perhaps even a case.

An irresistible offer that fits what you can do and will be doing.

The game is on. Let’s work and win together.