Data Platform Engineer

Nationale-Nederlanden Poland; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model

Home workspace support

Telework subsidies

Flexible hours

Life insurance

Pension plan

Performance bonus

Free parking

Job summary

NN Digital Hub, a NN Group subsidiary in Madrid, is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to advance the NN Data Analytics Platform (NNDAP) and Data Lab. You will help multiple business units deliver data products and scalable components used across 15 countries.

You will work with Azure, Databricks, ADF and Python, contributing to governed lakehouse design, data quality, and cost/performance optimization while mentoring other engineers in a fast-paced agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of relevant software, data and/or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building modular, scalable data platforms.
• Strong fundamentals in Python, SQL, CI/CD, packaging and testing.

Responsibilities

• Refine, build, test, deploy and automate core data components in NNDAP/Datalab.
• Translate customer needs into modular data solutions usable across units.
• Design solutions to optimize data platform architecture and mentor others.

Skills

5-7+ years experience

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Python

SQL

CI/CD

IaC (Bicep, Pulumi)

Job description

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of NN Group located in Madrid, Spain. We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units.

Data Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to grow our team of data experts. Your goal will be to constantly improve and scale our group wide adopted NN Data Analytics Platform or namely NNDAP and the Data Lab. NN Data Analytics Platform (NNDAP) is a product that provides a governed, compliant, and cost-effective Azure lakehouse foundation. It includes reusable components for data extraction, ingestion, harmonization, and quality—enabling Business Units (BUs) to build their own analytics platforms and data products faster, with reduced cognitive load. NN Data Lab (NNDL) is a managed Databricks environment designed for non-IT users, offering a simplified experience with built-in governance and automation to support data-driven experimentation and insight generation.

Your impact as a Data Platform Engineer as part of NNDAP will enable NN to be a data driven company by helping the business units to deliver high-quality software components, used at the BU’s to compile data systems which make Nationale Nederland the best data-driven financial services company. You get the opportunity to take part in designing and implementing code that will be re-used by over 110 data engineers in 10 teams and 15 countries.

Technologies you will work with:

• Our infrastructure runs on MS Azure cloud and we use IaC.
• We use Azure Data Factory (ADF) for pipelines and orchestration and Databricks for processing and transforming data. Python (incl. PySpark), SQL, CI/CD, packaging, testing, and IaC (Bicep, Pulumi a plus)

Your Impact as Data Platform Engineer: What are you going to do

• You will refine, build, test, deploy and automate the core functional data components as part of the NNDAP/Datalab product and offer that as a standard on a common code base serving all internal customers.
• Understand the needs of your various customers from different business units and translate them to modular solutions which are usable by the vast majority.
• You brainstorm and design solutions to optimize our data platform solution architecture along with other team members to reach to the best technical solution together. Contribute to the product vision, team learning skills by mentoring and lead technical discussions
• Share knowledge in our data engineering community, pair program and collaborate on code together with other data engineers within NN and lead/guide or participate the innersource community of NNDAP.
• Enable business teams to run successful data and AI projects and be a tech savvy or mentor other junior engineers.

The team you’ll join:

You will work with a diverse and an international team, our culture is inherited from NN Core values Care, Clear and Commit. Our way of working is agile with 2 weeks sprints. we focus on our customer needs with T‑shape of both data & infra cloud platform engineers working together as one team. With full autonomy the team decides the technical how and deliver value with quality first mindset. We work hard and play hard so if you are looking to bring fun to our team, you will be always welcomed.

What do we offer?

As part of our Employee Experience, we offer you a range of competitive benefits that are available to you in order to improve the physical, mental, and professional wellbeing of our workers. Among the benefits are:

• We work with a hybrid model
• Starting financial aid so you can equip your workspace at home
• Allowance and telework subventions
• Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer so you can fully take advantage of your time
• We hire a life insurance and a pension plan for all our employees
• We establish objectives bonus as a performance reward
• You can get to the office as you please. We have a free parking lot for cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, and bikes.
• Get to know our flexible retribution facilities such as transport card, nursery checks, health insurance with Sanitas, trainings…
• We care about people. That is why we are involved in society by facilitating volunteer actions and time to all our employees.
• We care about your wellbeing. We have a Wellness Program available.
• We are digital and we love technology. Also, every team works under agile methodology.

Who you are:

• You have 5-7+ years of relevant software, data and/or platform engineering experience, building platforms which are modular, testable, scalable and easily consumable.
• data/platform engineering with significant Azure experience (ADLS/Delta Lake, Databricks, ADF) and proven delivery of multi‑tenant or productized data platforms.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python (incl. PySpark), SQL, CI/CD, packaging, testing, and IaC (Bicep, Pulumi a plus).
• Practical mastery of lakehouse & medallion design, data quality, lineage/metadata, and cost/performance optimisation on cloud.
• Security & governance awareness (e.g., Unity Catalog, role/attribute‑based access, secrets, policies) in regulated environments.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to monitoring/observability and LCM at platform level.
• Familiarity with Eventdriven patterns/streaming and LakeFlow evolution alongside ADF.
• Experience preparing platforms for API driven data product exposure and higher availability patterns.
• Participation in communities such as the Data Engineering Guild.

In Nationale‑Nederlanden we are committed with diversity. We are proud to be an inclusive organization and we offer equal opportunities, regardless of race, cultural background, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, and sexual orientation. One of our core values is taking care of our employees so they can give their best within a respectful environment.