Product Owner (Platform & Infra) – Albert Heijn – Zaandam

Albert Heijn

Zaandam

On-site

EUR 60,000 - 75,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance (NS card)

AH Tech Academy

Excellent pension plan (4.5% employer)

Company laptop and phone

10% staff discount on groceries

Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership

Flexible working hours

Annual salary up to 75k + bonus

Job summary

Albert Heijn seeks a Product Owner for Managed Azure Databricks to guide strategy, prioritize user needs, and drive value from data. You’ll work with engineers and stakeholders to align the roadmap and ensure scalable, secure, and reusable MAD capabilities across analytics, AI, and supply chain.

You’ll partner with the Platform Staff Engineer to translate strategy into clear plans, manage dependencies, and improve the platform with user feedback.

Qualifications

2-5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar within a platform or data environment.
Solid understanding of cloud and data platform concepts enabling collaboration with engineers.
Strong product management and stakeholder management, with clear communication.
Collaborative mindset and ability to trade-off for a scalable platform.
Experience in delivering with agile teams and engineering collaboration.
Passion for secure, scalable, sustainable products that deliver value.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the MAD roadmap with clear priorities and trade-offs.
Coordinate with engineers, architects, and other product owners to align delivery.
Engage with users to gather needs and improve platform usability.
Drive scalable, cost-effective platform usage and reliability.
Promote MAD adoption with the Success Team and implement Databricks features.
Aim for reusable platform capabilities across teams.

Skills

Product Owner experience

Cloud & data platform

Product management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Agile experience

Security & scalability

Job description

Wat ga je doen?

Helpus build the future of data at Albert Heijn

Do you enjoy turning complex challenges into clear prioritiesand scalable solutions? Join Albert Heijn and help shape a platformthat 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 managedDatabricks platform that provides secure, governed, andoperationally supported data environments across AlbertHeijn.

What makes this role exciting?

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

As Product Owner, youwork with the Databricks Platform Staff Engineer to turn strategy,user needs, and stakeholder input into a clear roadmap and strongexecution. You set priorities, manage dependencies, and help teamsacross Albert Heijn create value from data in areas such asanalytics, AI, supply chain, and BonusBox. This role isabout driving adoption, ease of use, and real value, whileimproving the platform based on user needs and keeping MADscalable, reliable, and focused on reusablesolutions.

What you’lldo

Own and evolve theMAD roadmap, turning strategy and stakeholder needs into clearpriorities, plans, and trade-offs, while ensuring alignment oncommitments, dependencies, and productprocesses.
Work closely with engineers,architects, other Product Owners, and stakeholders across the datalandscape to align dependencies anddelivery
Engage with users to understand theirneeds, identify improvements, and continuously enhance the platform(user) experience while reducing complexity and cognitiveload
Drive scalable, cost-effective platformuse while contributing to the reliability and operational maturityof MAD as a business-critical platform.
Helpdrive the adoption of MAD capabilities together with the SuccessTeam (communication, training, ways of working, AI-assistedsupport) and help implement relevant Databricks features in waysthat fit Albert Heijn and create sustainablevalue.
Work towards making successful platformcapabilities reusable rather than solving the same problemrepeatedly for individualteams

Making room for differences

We believe that everyoneshould feel comfortable being themselves and feel welcome andvalued at work. We embrace different perspectives, experiences andbackgrounds, and actively work to build engaged teams whereeveryone has the opportunity to contribute. We believe thatdifferent perspectives help us make better decisions and achievebetter results together.

We look at the talents,knowledge, experience and personality you bring. Don’t meet everyrequirement but still see yourself in this role? We encourage youto apply. We welcome candidates with different backgrounds andexperiences and are curious to hear what you can bring and what youwould like tocontribute.

What we’re looking for

2-5 years’experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similarrole within a platform, data, technology, or digitalenvironment
Affinity with technology and asolid understanding of cloud and data platform concepts, enablingeffective collaboration with engineers andarchitects.
Strong product management,stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the abilityto translate user needs into clear priorities and productdecisions.
A collaborative mindset and theconfidence to make trade-offs and say no when a request does notfit a scalable platform approach
Experienceworking in agile teams and delivering products through closecollaboration with engineering teams
A drive tobuild products that are secure, scalable, sustainable, andgenuinely valuable for users

You donot need to know every detail of Databricks when you start. Whatmatters is that you are curious about technology, comfortableworking with technical teams, and motivated to understand both theplatform and the people who use it.

JoinAlbert Heijn to shape a strategic platform at the heart of our datalandscape, where your product decisions will help teams across thebusiness create value and drive how we use data and technology atscale.

What we offer.

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

Anannual salary up to 75k including holiday allowance and a flexiblebonus. Depending on your experience;
45 daysof paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regularvacation days and 19,5 ADV days.Enjoy!
Flexible workinghours;
Access to a challenging trainingcurriculum – AH Tech Academy;
An excellentpension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than youas an employee;
A travel allowance or aNS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam bytrain;
Attractive discounts on variousinsurance policies;
10% staff discount ongroceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 peryear;
A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premiummembership with many benefits;
A company laptopand telephone.

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 theAlbert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey,if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but bycontinually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in tocustomer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading onlinefood retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together wemake eating better the easy choice. Foreveryone.

The world around us haschanged, and significantly at that. These changes have impact onthe lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore,also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with newopportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eatfresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings ustogether, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to theworld. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easychoice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlandsis B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which weaim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainablesociety. B Corp certification is a designation that a business ismeeting high standards of verified performance, accountability andtransparency.

Ready to contribute to ourmission? Do you want to play anactive role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it?Then hop on board and join us on our expedition.Would you like tolearn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy totell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be partof our selection process.

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