IT Risk & Compliance Engineer – Albert Heijn – Zaandam

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

AHTech Academy training curriculum

Pension plan

Job summary

Albert Heijn Tech seeks an IT Risk & Compliance Engineer to shape technology risk management for today and tomorrow. You will lead IT risk frameworks and advise senior stakeholders on risk posture, with a focus on AI and emerging tech.

You will modernize compliance using AI, automation, and control-by-design, while coordinating with technology, product, security, and leadership to keep risk management relevant and scalable.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT risk frameworks and control optimization.
• Understanding of AI-related risk and regulatory implications.
• Ability to design automation and continuous monitoring solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME on IT risk and control, advising stakeholders on risk posture.
• Design and evolve IT risk frameworks to stay ahead of regulation and technology change.
• Translate emerging risks, including AI, into practical guidance and controls.
• Modernize compliance through automation and control-by-design.

Skills

IT risk & control

AI affinity

Automation

Continuous monitoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

CRISC certification

CISA

CISSP

Job description

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

This is how you will reinvent foodretail.

• You set the direction for our IT risk frameworksand how the organization managesrisk.
• You bring deep expertise in IT risk and control andunderstand today’s regulatory and control reality insideout.
• You anticipate where risk is heading, from AI andemerging technology to evolving regulation and build for that nextreality.
• You modernize compliance by using AI, automation,and control-by-design to make risk management smarter, faster, andmore scalable.

What you’lldo

• Act as the go-to subject-matter expert on IT riskand control, the person the organization turns to for a clear,authoritative read on where real risk sits and what to do aboutit.
• Design and evolve our IT risk and controlframeworks so they stay ahead of regulation, technology change, andthe way AH Tech builds andoperates.
• Anticipate emerging risk, including AI and othernew technologies and translate it into practical guidance,controls, and framework updates before it becomes aproblem.
• Modernize and automate compliance: shift frommanual, repetitive control work toward control-by-design,continuous monitoring, and AI-supportedtooling.
• Apply AI and automation to the risk function itselffrom evidence gathering to control testing to reporting -to make itfaster, more consistent, and morescalable.
• Advise senior stakeholders (up to C-level) on riskposture and framework maturity, with a view that looks forward, notonly at the currentstate.
• Set the standard for how controls are evidenced andremediated, and coach control owners and teams to meetit.
• Drive and coordinate control execution and issueclosure where needed ,keeping it lean and increasingly automatedrather than manual andrepetitive.
• Act as the expert reference point for internal andexternal assurance activities andaudits.

Your new team andoffice

Together with your team, you will work on inspiringprojects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Techcompany. We want to leverage data and technology to future-prooffood shopping and make healthy food more easily accessible foreveryone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in thedata, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individualswho share a common goal: to create digital solutions that make(online) shopping simpler and moreinspiring.

As IT Risk & Compliance Engineer, you will playa key role in strengthening the way AH Tech manages technology riskacross a complex and evolving landscape. You will work withstakeholders across technology, product, security, control, andleadership to ensure our risk and compliance approach remainsrelevant, effective, and future-ready.

Are you ready to reinvent the way millions ofpeople buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digitaland tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teamswork in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. Weare located right next to the train station ofZaandam.

What weoffer

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is onlypossible if you grow along with us. As we work together to buildour brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours perweek):

• An annual salary up to 106k including holidayallowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your level ofseniority and experience;
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would yourather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash?You’re the end boss!
• Flexible workinghours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AHTech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employercontribute 4.5 more than you as anemployee;
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card fortraveling to and from Zaandam bytrain;
• Attractive discounts on various insurancepolicies;
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijnstores, to a maximum of €300 peryear;
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership withmany benefits;
• A company laptop andtelephone.

Making room fordifferences

We believe that everyone should feel comfortablebeing themselves and feel welcome and valued at work. We embracedifferent perspectives, experiences and backgrounds, and activelywork to build engaged teams where everyone has the opportunity tocontribute. We believe that different perspectives help us makebetter decisions and achieve better resultstogether.

We look at the talents, knowledge, experience andpersonality you bring. Don’t meet every requirement but still seeyourself in this role? We encourage you to apply. We welcomecandidates with different backgrounds and experiences and arecurious to hear what you can bring and what you would like tocontribute.

The recipe for maximumimpact

• 5+ years of work experience in IT Risk, Assurance& Advisory, Audit, or a related field within a large, complexorganization;
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in IT risk and controlframeworks and you understand the current reality thoroughly andapply it with judgement, not just by thebook;
• A genuine forward-looking mindset: you see howrisk, technology, and regulation are evolving and build for thatreality, not only the one in front ofyou;
• Real affinity for AI, both as an emerging riskdomain you can assess and govern, and as a tool you actively use tomodernize and automate risk and compliancework;
• A strong bias toward control-by-design, automation,and continuous monitoring over manual, repetitive controlexecution;
• The credibility and communication skills to be thetrusted expert for senior stakeholders, up toC-level;
• A critical, constructive mindset, able to challengeand guide the organization while keeping solutionspractical;
• The ability to influence, guide, and coordinateothers without direct authority (this is an expert role, not apeople-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, tobe exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymouswith the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with acomplacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach,but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying pluggedin to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leadingonline food retail platform? Check, we build, run and loveit.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. Foreveryone.

The world around us has changed, and significantlyat that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers,colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’removing towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges.Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and moresustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier andcontributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together wemake eating better the easy choice. Foreveryone.

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

Ready to contribute to ourmission?

Do you want to play an active role in changing thefood retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join uson our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before youapply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selectionprocess.

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Wat wevragen?

• An eye fordetail
• Excellent analyticalskills
• The ability toconnect
• High focus onquality