Senior Big Data and AI Engineer - AWS, GenAI & Pipelines

VodafoneZiggo; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

VodafoneZiggo is seeking a Senior Big Data Engineer to design, build and operate scalable data and AI solutions across the organisation. You will work on GenAI, cloud data platforms, real-time streaming or large-scale processing on AWS.

You will collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Owners and platform engineers to move ideas to reliable production usage. Based in the Netherlands, you will join Utrecht Central Office two days per week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience guiding technical direction and mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong software engineering mindset with emphasis on clean, testable code.
• Experience with Python or a modern programming language and scalable data systems.
• Excellent communication and ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate data and AI solutions on AWS.
• Develop production-grade data pipelines and backend services.
• Productise LLM-powered applications and customer/agent assist tools.
• Build APIs and cloud infrastructure for data and AI products.
• Work with RAG, vector search, prompt orchestration and AI evaluation patterns.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, security and access management.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve stability.
• Apply CI/CD, IaC and automation; conduct code reviews.

Skills

Python

Code quality

Software engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Ownership

Communication

Learning mindset

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

VodafoneZiggo is seeking a Senior Big Data Engineer to design, build and operate scalable data and AI solutions across the organisation. You will work on GenAI, cloud data platforms, real-time streaming or large-scale processing on AWS.

You will collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Owners and platform engineers to move ideas to reliable production usage. Based in the Netherlands, you will join Utrecht Central Office two days per week.