Data Engineer

Who we are

At Vandebron, we're transforming the energy landscape, steering away from the conventional to champion sustainability. Born in 2014, our journey began with Chapter 1, disrupting the market with a transparent platform connecting consumers directly to local, green energy producers. Now, in Chapter 2, we are dedicated to ensuring 100% green energy availability, 100% of the time. Think smart solutions — flexible use of wind and solar farms, Smart EV Charging, and efficient energy storage.

No waiting around, we actively shape a sustainable future. Good energy, smart solutions — that's Vandebron.

This is where you’ll end up

You will end up in the Data Analytics team, which is at the core of Vandebron. We enable a wide variety of business teams such as digital, finance, marketing, electric mobility as well as customer facing teams, to make data-driven decisions by means of automated reporting, deep dive/ statistical analytics as well as building and maintaining data products. We also work closely with leadership teams to support business-wide projects and facilitate decision making on a company level. You’ll be working in the commercial analytics team consisting of both data analysts and engineers and led by a Product Owner. We’re a fast-pacing team that makes high-impact decisions and provides a mix of building and maintaining a state of the art data platform, data modeling and dashboarding as well as solving advanced analytics challenges together with a larger group of business analysts in the domain teams.

What are you going to do?

• Work on improving and operating our (modern) data stack, maintain and improve our current and future ETL (/ELT) pipelines run smoothly and help analysts and engineers improve and extend the existing infrastructure

• Manage our orchestration tooling and make sure our (critical) data products are accessible to internal and external teams

• Working closely within a tight knit central data team that consists of analysts, engineers, data scientists and be the point of contact for embedded analysts

• Work on actively sharing and presenting your findings and knowledge with other business teams, embedded analysts and in the wider data community

• Learn new tools and techniques that continuously improve our existing data infrastructure

This is how you make a difference

• You have a strong background and solid working experience as a data engineer (2+ years)

• You are an strong experience using Python, SQL and have strong knowledge of ETL (ELT) processes and tooling

• You are familiar with modern data tools and preferably have experience with Snowflake/ dbt (or data modeling in general) and orchestration tooling (e.g. Dagster)

• You are engaged and committed to helping stakeholders/ analysts derive value from their data; you’re interested beyond the mere technical details.

• You are someone who actively thinks about business problems, shares findings with stakeholders and is eager to help others find solutions in data. You will help people understand how to get value from data and get the business relevance of an analysis.

• You have experience with visualization tools used for reporting

• You have experience (preferably) with version control and are comfortable with git, working in a centralized environment

• You are a good communicator and are keen to work closely in a close knit team

What’s in it for you

• To work towards our mission with a good dose of energy, we offer you 30 paid days off per year.

• Work abroad for up to 6 weeks per year (max 4 consecutive weeks, including up to 4 weeks outside the EU).

• Employees with three years of service can go on a sabbatical for up to three months (one month paid with holidays, two unpaid).

• Request special leave for significant personal events, volunteering for SDG 11 or 13, and an additional day for religious or personal celebrations (starting on Jan ’25).

• Dive into new skills with an annual €850 learning budget, as well as access to Learning & Development workshops and programs.

• Plan for the future with our solid pension scheme.

• Stay connected hassle-free with a monthly €50 net reimbursement for your phone and wifi.

• One-time €200 net allowance to create a comfortable home workspace for our team members.

• Split your time between our carbon-neutral Amsterdam office at the city’s heart and your home, finding the perfect balance for you.

• Enjoy daily organic lunches prepared by our in-house cooks.

• For those living 10km or more from the office, hop on board with an NS business card for smooth commuting.

Interested?

Maybe you don’t fit all these requirements but you still think you’re the right person for the role, still apply :). At Vandebron we believe in diversity, inclusiveness and equal career opportunities. Be your authentic self and it's totally okay with us if you don't mention your gender or date of birth on your resume. We also care about your privacy and handle your data carefully. Under the GDPR, you are not required to provide us with any information about your health, race/nationality, and religion, and you may also omit your social security number (BSN) and passport photo from your job application documentation

If you are as enthusiastic as we are, please apply via this page. Not convinced yet and do you have questions? Feel free to ask them via Jordreukers@vandebron.nl