Senior Data Engineer Insurance & Pensions

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

Holiday allowance 8%

Employee Benefit Budget

Development budget

Job summary

Rabobank in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for Insurance & Pensions to design, develop and optimize data platforms that connect internal and external systems, enabling reliable data movement and high‑quality analytics. You will translate business needs into cloud-native solutions, build self‑service data tooling, and lead engineering standards, CI/CD, and coaching across the team.

The role combines data logistics with analytics across a large customer base and supports

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing and operating cloud-native data platforms for analytics.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into robust data solutions.
• Proven track record with data pipelines, ETL/ELT, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud-native data platforms, integrations and pipelines for secure data exchange.
• Develop transformation logic and orchestration to support operations, compliance and analytics.
• Lead architectural improvements through DevOps automation, mentoring and engineering standards.

Skills

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Apache Airflow

Azure Functions

AWS Lambda

Infrastructure as Code

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Job description

Senior Data Engineer Insurance & Pensions

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,030 and EUR 7,183 (scale 09)for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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Help shape a data platform supporting millions of exchanges each year, creating trusted foundations for analytics, reporting and business decisions.

You & Your Function

Design, develop and optimise data platforms connecting internal and external systems across Insurance & Pensions and its partners. As a Senior Data Engineer, you ensure reliable data movement, scalable models and high-quality analytics solutions. You translate complex business requirements into robust, maintainable cloud-native solutions, enabling automation, personalisation and data-driven decision-making while ensuring data reaches the right systems at the right time and quality.

Examples for Practices

• Help shape the squad’s future by growing its team size, expertise and portfolio of data solutions, while establishing best practices for Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, code coverage, maintainability, CI/CD optimisation and uniform coding standards.
• Transform the metadata-driven ETL framework into an event-driven architecture, building on the existing metadata database and Python ETL package.
• Develop a self-service data platform that lets consumers create and maintain their own queries, using provided data products to populate the gold layer of the data lakehouse.

Facts & Figures

• 36-40 hours per week
• Responsible for data flows across multiple Insurance & Pensions applications and external partners
• 9.5 million customers worldwide

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud-native data platforms, integrations and pipelines that ensure secure, reliable and scalable data exchange between internal and external systems.
• Develop transformation logic and orchestration solutions that support operational processes, regulatory requirements and analytics across the domain.
• Lead technical improvements through architecture guidance, DevOps automation, mentoring and consistent engineering standards across the team.

Within the Insurance & Pensions domain, you operate at the intersection of data logistics and analytics. You collaborate with business specialists, architects, analysts and engineers to continuously improve the data landscape and enable automation, personalisation and data-driven decision-making.

Together We Achieve More Than Alone

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our Insurance & Pensions data team.

"Great technology is not just about the solutions we build, but about the practices we establish together. Standardisation, automation and collaboration create the foundation for sustainable growth and innovation." - Flore Hupsel, Senior Data Engineer

The agile team consists of a product manager, scrum master, business analysts and data engineers who jointly manage and enhance the Insurance & Pensions data landscape. Collaboration is our approach, working as one data-minded team within the domain.

Our department is responsible for both data logistics and analytics. We not only deliver insights, but also ensure that data reaches the right systems, at the right time and with the right quality.

Work on Yourself and the World Around You at the Same Time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You'll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why Everyone Is Welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills and experience, as well as gender, background and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself, whoever you are. That is what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & Your Talent

As a Senior Data Engineer, you bring a strong combination of data engineering, cloud platform and software engineering expertise.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you bring a strong combination of data engineering, cloud platform and software engineering expertise, including:

• Data engineering and analytics using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Python, SQL, data modelling, data warehousing and Apache Airflow.
• Cloud and platform engineering with Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation), Azure DevOps, scripting and networking fundamentals.
• Engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, observability, operational support, secrets management and security best practices.
• Promoting maintainable, scalable and standardised engineering practices.
• Coaching and mentoring colleagues while fostering knowledge sharing.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership and effective collaboration.