Data Platform Engineer - Team DAS

Data Platform Engineer – Central Data Analytics & AI Platform 

• Location: The Hague + Hybrid 
• Hours: 37 hours 
• Salary: €4.588 – €6.498 gross per month 
• Qualification level: University degree 
• Level: Medior/Senior 

Meta title 

Vacancy Platform Engineer – PostNL The Hague 

Metadescription 

Help build our central Data Analytics & AI Platform and make impact with scalable solutions in AWS and Databricks. 

Teaser 

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll help build our central Data Analytics & AI Platform. You’ll create scalable solutions in AWS and Databricks and empower data professionals to innovate securely and efficiently. 

Why join PostNL as a Data Platform Engineer 

Visible work: You’ll help build the platform that enables hundreds of data professionals to develop dashboards, AI models and insights. 

Challenge: You’ll work with AWS, Databricks, Python and Terraform to create a scalable and secure platform for data and AI. 

Good atmosphere: You’ll join an international team that collaborates, shares knowledge and helps each other move forward. 

Flexibility: You’ll work hybrid — from home and at our modern office next to The Hague Holland Spoor station. 

Responsibility: You’ll have a big say in your work and working hours. 

Development opportunities: You’ll grow through training and innovation sprints, and stay ahead in GenAI and MLOps. 

Your role 

As a Platform Engineer within our Data Center of Excellence (Data CoE), you’ll help build the foundation of our Data Analytics & AI Platform. You’ll design infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, APIs and internal Python packages. You’ll automate processes using CDK, Terraform and Python, and ensure a secure, scalable and user-friendly environment for data professionals. 

You’ll migrate platform components from AWS to Databricks, connect systems like Unity Catalog and User Management, and improve the developer experience. You’ll apply DevOps principles and raise engineering standards across our platform. 

Your colleagues 

You’ll join the Data Analytics Services team within the Data CoE. Together with Platform Engineers, MLOps Engineers and Solution Consultants, you’ll build the platform. You’ll be supported by a Tech Lead, Platform Owner and Scrum Master. We work agile, share knowledge and experiment with new technologies like GenAI and AI assistants in our Data Portal. 

What we’ll deliver 

An innovative position and work that affects literally every street in the country. We want to be the logistics e-commerce platform of the future, delivering special moments faster, smarter and better. With your mindset, you can help us face our challenges head on. You can count on excellent benefits in the process. The benefits of your position are: 

• Salary between €4,521 and €6,498 gross per month at 37 hours per week. But 32 hours is possible too! 
• Hybrid working is encouraged and you’ll have flexible working hours. After all, your work-life balance matters to us. Employees who work from home more than two days a week get an allowance of €45 net per month. 
• 8% vacation pay and 25 vacation days on a full-time contract. 
• Travel allowance for commuting from 6 km each way up to a maximum of 70 km each way. 
• An NS Business Card for business travel and commuting. 
• A good pension plan through the PostNL pension fund. 
• Engineering Laptop (Mac or Windows) and a smartphone. 
• Training opportunities for personal development through Mijn Leerplein. 
• Discounts on holidays, events and products. 
• Discover all benefits at PostNL 

What you bring to the job 

You have a passion for platform development and enjoy enabling others. You work precisely, think scalable and automate smartly. You also have the following qualities: 

You have a university degree in Computer Science or similar. 

You have experience with AWS (Lambda, CDK, CloudFormation, Cognito, ECS, SageMaker). 

You are familiar with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Jobs, Workflows, Service Principals). 

You code in Python and TypeScript. 

You have experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure as Code. 

The final letters... 

Fancy coming in for a cup of coffee or tea first in order to find out more about the job or PostNL? You’re more than welcome! Call or email the recruiter and we’ll schedule an appointment right away. 

We do a background check on all applicants. As part of the check, we ask that applicants submit a certificate of good conduct. We also check references and possibly conduct a special investigation. 

Because we believe in equal opportunities, candidates take an assessment designed to evaluate their competences and skills relevant to the position. 

We recruit our own co-workers as we try to build the PostNL of the future. Post from recruitment agencies will be returned to sender!