IT Risk & Compliance Engineer

Albert Heijn; Zaandam; Hybrid; EUR 64,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary with bonus

Flexible hours

AH Tech Academy

Pension plan

Travel allowance

Staff discount

Premium membership

Laptop & phone

Job summary

Albert Heijn Tech is seeking an IT Risk & Compliance Engineer to shape how we manage technology risk across our webshop, stores, and supply chain. You will collaborate with stakeholders across technology, product, security, and leadership to keep risk posture forward-looking and compliant.

You bring deep expertise in IT risk and control frameworks, anticipate AI-related risk, and drive automation and control-by-design.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing IT risk and control frameworks.
• Ability to anticipate risk from AI and emerging tech and translate into guidance and controls.
• Proven track record advising senior stakeholders on risk posture and maturity.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME on IT risk and control; provide clear readings on risk posture and remediation.
• Design and evolve IT risk and control frameworks to stay ahead of regulation and tech changes.
• Anticipate emerging risk (AI/tech) and translate into practical guidance, controls, and framework updates.
• Modernize and automate compliance through control-by-design, continuous monitoring, and AI-supported tooling.
• Advise senior stakeholders up to C-level on risk posture and framework maturity.

Skills

IT risk management

Control frameworks

Regulatory knowledge

AI risk awareness

Automation & tooling

Stakeholder communication

Audits & assurance

Job description

Albert Heijn Tech (Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall) is looking for an IT Risk & Compliance Engineer to help shape how we manage technology risk for today’s reality and for what’s coming next. At AH Tech, technology powers everything from the webshop to the stores and the supply chain, and that demands risk management that is deep, forward-looking, and built to scale.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You set the direction for our IT risk frameworks and how the organization manages risk.
• You bring deep expertise in IT risk and control and understand today’s regulatory and control reality inside out.
• You anticipate where risk is heading, from AI and emerging technology to evolving regulation and build for that next reality.
• You modernize compliance by using AI, automation, and control-by-design to make risk management smarter, faster, and more scalable.

What you’ll do

• Act as the go-to subject-matter expert on IT risk and control, the person the organization turns to for a clear, authoritative read on where real risk sits and what to do about it.
• Design and evolve our IT risk and control frameworks so they stay ahead of regulation, technology change, and the way AH Tech builds and operates.
• Anticipate emerging risk, including AI and other new technologies and translate it into practical guidance, controls, and framework updates before it becomes a problem.
• Modernize and automate compliance: shift from manual, repetitive control work toward control-by-design, continuous monitoring, and AI-supported tooling.
• Apply AI and automation to the risk function itself from evidence gathering to control testing to reporting -to make it faster, more consistent, and more scalable.
• Advise senior stakeholders (up to C-level) on risk posture and framework maturity, with a view that looks forward, not only at the current state.
• Set the standard for how controls are evidenced and remediated, and coach control owners and teams to meet it.
• Drive and coordinate control execution and issue closure where needed ,keeping it lean and increasingly automated rather than manual and repetitive.
• Act as the expert reference point for internal and external assurance activities and audits.

Your new team and office

Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more easily accessible for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal: to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring.

As IT Risk & Compliance Engineer, you will play a key role in strengthening the way AH Tech manages technology risk across a complex and evolving landscape. You will work with stakeholders across technology, product, security, control, and leadership to ensure our risk and compliance approach remains relevant, effective, and future-ready.

Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

What we offer

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• An annual salary up to 106k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your level of seniority and experience;
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss!
• Flexible working hours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 more than you as an employee;
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies;
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year;
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits;
• A company laptop and telephone.

Making room for differences

We believe that everyone should feel comfortable being themselves and feel welcome and valued at work. We embrace different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds, and actively work to build engaged teams where everyone has the opportunity to contribute. We believe that different perspectives help us make better decisions and achieve better results together.

We look at the talents, knowledge, experience and personality you bring. Don’t meet every requirement but still see yourself in this role? We encourage you to apply. We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and experiences and are curious to hear what you can bring and what you would like to contribute.

The recipe for maximum impact

• 5+ years of work experience in IT Risk, Assurance & Advisory, Audit, or a related field within a large, complex organization;
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in IT risk and control frameworks and you understand the current reality thoroughly and apply it with judgement, not just by the book;
• A genuine forward-looking mindset: you see how risk, technology, and regulation are evolving and build for that reality, not only the one in front of you;
• Real affinity for AI, both as an emerging risk domain you can assess and govern, and as a tool you actively use to modernize and automate risk and compliance work;
• A strong bias toward control-by-design, automation, and continuous monitoring over manual, repetitive control execution;
• The credibility and communication skills to be the trusted expert for senior stakeholders, up to C-level;
• A critical, constructive mindset, able to challenge and guide the organization while keeping solutions practical;
• The ability to influence, guide, and coordinate others without direct authority (this is an expert role, not a people-management one);
• Relevant certification such as CRISC, CISA, CISSP, or RE is a plus.

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors

Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?