Product Owner (Platform, Infra)

Albert Heijn; Zaandam; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AH Tech Academy

Pension plan

Travel allowance / NS card

Staff discount 10%

Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership

Company laptop and phone

Job summary

Albert Heijn seeks a Product Owner for Managed Azure Databricks (MAD) to shape a secure, governed, and scalable data platform. You will translate strategy and stakeholder input into a clear roadmap, prioritize features, and drive adoption of MAD capabilities across analytics, AI, supply chain, and more.

You will work with the Platform Staff Engineer and cross-functional teams to ensure value delivery, optimize usability, and reduce complexity while keeping MAD scalable and reliable for business

Qualifications

• 2-5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similar role within a platform, data, technology, or digital environment.
• Affinity with cloud and data platform concepts, enabling effective collaboration with engineers and architects.
• Strong product management, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate user needs into clear priorities and product decisions.
• Collaborative mindset and the confidence to make trade-offs and say no when a request does not fit a scalable platform approach.
• Experience working in agile teams and delivering products through close collaboration with engineering teams.
• Drive to build products that are secure, scalable, sustainable, and genuinely valuable for users.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the MAD roadmap, turning strategy and stakeholder needs into clear priorities, plans, and trade-offs.
• Work closely with engineers, architects, other Product Owners, and stakeholders across the data landscape to align dependencies and delivery.
• Engage with users to understand their needs, identify improvements, and continuously enhance the platform experience.
• Drive scalable, cost-effective platform use while contributing to reliability and operational maturity of MAD.
• Help drive adoption of MAD capabilities with the Success Team and implement Databricks features that fit Albert Heijn.
• Make platform capabilities reusable rather than solving the same problem repeatedly for individual teams.

Skills

Product ownership

Stakeholder management

Cloud concepts

Data platform

Agile methodologies

Databricks

Azure

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Job description

Help us build the future of data at Albert Heijn

Do you enjoy turning complex challenges into clear priorities and scalable solutions? Join Albert Heijn and help shape a platform that enables colleagues to work with data securely, efficiently, and at scale.

At Albert Heijn, we are looking for a Product Owner for Managed Azure Databricks (MAD) — the managed Databricks platform that provides secure, governed, and operationally supported data environments across Albert Heijn.

What makes this role exciting?

MAD has evolved into a strategically important platform within our data landscape. We see Databricks as a strong strategic partner for the years to come, while the platform itself continues to develop rapidly across data engineering, analytics, AI, governance, and platform operations. This creates an exciting product challenge: deciding which capabilities we adopt, how we integrate them into our organization, how we support our users, and how we ensure that our investment generates lasting value.

As Product Owner, you work with the Databricks Platform Staff Engineer to turn strategy, user needs, and stakeholder input into a clear roadmap and strong execution. You set priorities, manage dependencies, and help teams across Albert Heijn create value from data in areas such as analytics, AI, supply chain, and BonusBox.

This role is about driving adoption, ease of use, and real value, while improving the platform based on user needs and keeping MAD scalable, reliable, and focused on reusable solutions.

What you’ll do

• Own and evolve the MAD roadmap, turning strategy and stakeholder needs into clear priorities, plans, and trade-offs, while ensuring alignment on commitments, dependencies, and product processes.
• Work closely with engineers, architects, other Product Owners, and stakeholders across the data landscape to align dependencies and delivery
• Engage with users to understand their needs, identify improvements, and continuously enhance the platform (user) experience while reducing complexity and cognitive load
• Drive scalable, cost-effective platform use while contributing to the reliability and operational maturity of MAD as a business-critical platform.
• Help drive the adoption of MAD capabilities together with the Success Team (communication, training, ways of working, AI-assisted support) and help implement relevant Databricks features in ways that fit Albert Heijn and create sustainable value.
• Work towards making successful platform capabilities reusable rather than solving the same problem repeatedly for individual teams

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.

What we’re looking for

• 2-5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similar role within a platform, data, technology, or digital environment
• Affinity with technology and a solid understanding of cloud and data platform concepts, enabling effective collaboration with engineers and architects.
• Strong product management, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate user needs into clear priorities and product decisions.
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to make trade-offs and say no when a request does not fit a scalable platform approach
• Experience working in agile teams and delivering products through close collaboration with engineering teams
• A drive to build products that are secure, scalable, sustainable, and genuinely valuable for users

You do not need to know every detail of Databricks when you start. What matters is that you are curious about technology, comfortable working with technical teams, and motivated to understand both the platform and the people who use it.

Join Albert Heijn to shape a strategic platform at the heart of our data landscape, where your product decisions will help teams across the business create value and drive how we use data and technology at scale.

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 75k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your experience;
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy!
• 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.

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, 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?

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