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’ll become part of the Energy Forecasting & Trading Algorithms team within Data Analytics, which is at the core of Vandebron. We are a fast paced team of data scientists and data engineers that deliver ML-driven data products such as green energy production and consumption forecasts. Our products are used for high-impact decisions such as daily energy trading, optimising asset usage such as batteries and (near) real time grid balancing on flex markets. The team works with exciting new data engineering and machine learning techniques and tools within our modern data stack to create value in an exciting and always changing environment.

You will also collaborate with your colleagues within Data Analytics to contribute to making all of Vandebron more data-driven.

We do this by ensuring data availability, providing deep dive analyses and delivering data-driven products for business domains such as digital, finance, marketing, electric mobility as well as customer facing teams. We also work closely with the leadership team to support business-wide projects and facilitate decision making on a company level.

What are you going to do?

• Collaborate with our data scientists and data engineers to bring our products to the next level by designing, implementing and optimising new data-driven features in our Python codebase

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

• Ingest and make available new data sources as well as adding or improving data quality checks and monitoring

• Work on improving and operating our data stack more broadly, and keep current pipelines, scheduled jobs and products running smoothly

• 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 and/or Python developer

• You have extensive experience in using Python (OOP and testing) for data product development, including data transformations (e.g. Pandas/Polars), SQL, REST API’s, orchestration (e.g. Dagster/Airflow) and containerization (Docker)

• You are skilled in designing data models (e.g. DBT) and data pipelines and optimizing their implementation for speed and scalability

• You preferably have experience with ML-ops such as monitoring, continuous train-flows and building production ready ML-pipelines

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

• You are engaged and committed to helping the Data Analytics mission of making Vandebron more data-driven and helping others derive value from their data; you’re interested beyond the mere technical details

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)

• Fuel your brain with an annual €850 learning budget to grow personally and professionally

• Dive into new skills with access to Learning & Development workshops and programs

• Plan for the future with our 3rd-tier 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

• Ready to spread your wings? We've got your back with a €1500 relocation package

• Immerse yourself in the local culture by exploring Dutch language courses

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