Technical Integration Consultant

Albert Heijn; Zaandam; On-site; EUR 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to 70k

45 days leave

AH Tech Academy

Pension plan

Travel allowance / NS card

Staff discounts

Mijn Albert Heijn Premium

Company laptop and phone

Job summary

Albert Heijn is seeking a Technical Integration Consultant to keep our HR landscape running for over 100,000 colleagues across Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall and Albert Heijn Belgium. You bridge business needs and technical design to deliver robust integrations.

In this role you guide design, build, test and deployment with a DevOps team, ensuring the end-to-end solution remains reliable, scalable and aligned with HR applications across platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with technical integrations in HR Tech or other complex IT environments, or a technical background in software engineering, enterprise applications, or IT.
• Affinity with Microsoft Azure and GitHub, and the drive to keep growing your skills in this stack. Hands-on experience is a plus, but curiosity and eagerness to dive in are just as important.
• Good understanding of integration concepts, patterns and technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, event streaming, batch vs. real‑time data flows, and authentication standards (OAuth, SSO)
• A team-player mindset: you thrive in a setup where a DevOps team builds the integrations while you guide solution design, own the functional-to-technical translation, and ensure stakeholder alignment.
• You can easily switch between functional questions and technical solutions, and you know how to bridge the two.
• Strong communication skills — you can hold your own with stakeholders, Product Owners, developers and architects alike.
• Experience working in Agile / DevOps environments.

Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate sessions between stakeholders and Tech colleagues (Product Owners, developers, architects).
• Translate business requests into clear, workable technical designs.
• Guide the end-to-end process of designing, building, testing and deploying integrations, together with the DevOps team that develops them.
• Keep the technical big picture in mind and make sure every step fits into a solid end-to-end solution.
• Make sure all teams involved in the process are aligned, engaged and informed.
• Contribute to the daily maintenance and continuous improvement of our integrations and HR applications.

Skills

Technical integrations

Azure

GitHub

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Event streaming

OAuth / SSO

Agile / DevOps

Communication skills

Team player

Tools

Microsoft Azure

GitHub

Job description

As a Technical Integration Consultant, you help keep our HR landscape running for more than 100,000 colleagues across Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall and Albert Heijn Belgium.

You use your technical integration knowledge to guide solution design, challenge assumptions and help development teams deliver the right solutions.

What you will do.

• You organize and facilitate sessions between stakeholders and Tech colleagues (Product Owners, developers, architects).
• You translate business requests into clear, workable technical designs.
• You guide the end-to-end process of designing, building, testing and deploying integrations, together with the DevOps team that develops them.
• You keep the technical big picture in mind and make sure every step fits into a solid end-to-end solution.
• You make sure all teams involved in the process are aligned, engaged and informed.
• You contribute to the daily maintenance and continuous improvement of our integrations and HR applications.

What this means for you.

As a Technical Integration Consultant, you play a central role in keeping the full employee lifecycle running smoothly and making it future-proof for more than 100,000 colleagues. You make sure HR data flows correctly through all systems that rely on it, from planning to supply chain, e-commerce and the HR apps managed by your team.

You organize and facilitate sessions with stakeholders and Tech colleagues such as architects, Product Owners and developers. You quickly get to the heart of the question and help guide the team towards the right solution. Based on your analysis, you make clear recommendations and help the team make well-founded decisions. You also make sure all relevant Tech teams are fully aligned with the chosen solution and contribute to an end-to-end solution that works both technically and functionally.

Your new team and office.

Our HR landscape includes more than 20 HR applications and forms the core of our HR service delivery.

You will be part of the team responsible for the Dutch HR apps, as well as all integrations from our HR Core system to other platforms. This includes operational apps within supply chain and e-commerce, as well as applications used by Etos and Gall & Gall.

Within AH Tech HR, you work in the heart of a complex and fast-moving environment. Together with your team, you help keep HR data reliable, complete and available on time for all systems that depend on it.

You work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Architects and stakeholders from both the business and the global and European HR organizations. Together, you connect functional questions from HR and operational teams with the technical solutions of our platforms.

You will join a self-managing and multidisciplinary team consisting of a Product Owner, solution consultant and engineers. There is plenty of room to work on projects based on interest and expertise. Together, you build a solid and future-proof HR technology landscape.

We think it’s important to be part of a high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. So don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either.

What you bring.

• Experience with technical integrations in HR Tech or other complex IT environments, or a technical background in software engineering, enterprise applications, or IT. You are eager to further develop your expertise in the integration domain.
• Affinity with Microsoft Azure and GitHub, and the drive to keep growing your skills in this stack. Hands‑on experience is a plus, but curiosity and eagerness to dive in are just as important.
• Good understanding of integration concepts, patterns and technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, event streaming, batch vs. real‑time data flows, and authentication standards (OAuth, SSO)
• A team‑player mindset: you thrive in a setup where a DevOps team builds the integrations while you guide solution design, own the functional‑to‑technical translation, and ensure stakeholder alignment.
• You can easily switch between functional questions and technical solutions, and you know how to bridge the two.
• Strong communication skills — you can hold your own with stakeholders, Product Owners, developers and architects alike.
• Experience working in Agile / DevOps environments.

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 70k including holiday allowance and a profit sharing 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. The leading online food retail platform? 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?

We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.