Junior Data Engineer

• A permanent contract with a two-month probationary period, based on 40 hours per week.
• A salary in scale 7: €4,211 to €7,447 gross per month with 8% holiday allowance and a 6% end-of-year bonus.
• A solid pension via ABP: we pay 70% of your premium.
• 43 vacation days per year.
• Hybrid working, including a travel allowance, internet allowance, and a home office allowance.
• Support for your vitality, with a contribution towards a sports subscription and health insurance.
• Development opportunities via the TenneT Academy, so that you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills.

The energy transition requires smart, decisive professionals. In the Data & Analytics team, we ensure that data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and (re)usable, and we translate this data into data-driven solutions, so that the Netherlands can also rely on a reliable electricity grid tomorrow. Will you contribute to this as a Junior Data Engineer?

How do you keep the Netherlands powered?

As a Junior Data Engineer, you will help unlock, model, and make data from various sources available. Together with experienced colleagues and our various business domains, you will translate business needs into reliable and scalable data products and help build the data foundation of TenneT.

You will work on data products and data pipelines and further develop yourself in areas including Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, and data modeling. In doing so, you will learn to look beyond just building a solution, and you will also help us further professionalize our way of working. How do we ensure that these are well-tested, secure, scalable, and enter and remain in production? That sounds big, and it is. Your work has a direct impact. Because to manage our electricity grid increasingly smartly and prepare it for the future, we must be able to rely on our data. You ensure that the right data, with the right quality and meaning, is available for our colleagues and the applications that need it.

You will work in the Data & Analytics team within Assets. Here, you will get the space to deepen your substantive knowledge and broaden your technical expertise towards cloud, platform engineering, and DevOps.

What will you do?

You are responsible for, among other things:

• Developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining data products and data pipelines.
• Building BI and Data Warehouse solutions using ETL, Python, and SQL.
• Working with Microsoft Azure and Databricks and contributing to the further development of the Tennet Data Cloud platform.
• Translating information needs into logical and physical data models and applying, among other things, dimensional modeling.
• Working with Git, code reviews, testing, and CI/CD, and further developing yourself in modern DevOps principles.
• Thinking along during impact analyses and learning how technical choices are made.
• Collaborating with fellow engineers, architects, and the business to realize reliable and reusable solutions.

To truly make a difference in this role, you recognize yourself in the following competencies:

• Managing Complexity - you understand that a small change can have major consequences and ensure a good impact analysis is performed before adjustments are made.
• Quality of Decisions - you listen to others and incorporate their ideas into your decision-making. You know when you can solve things yourself and when matters must be escalated.
• Optimizing Work Processes - you are alert to opportunities to improve collaboration and processes within the team.
• Organizational Awareness - you understand how others in the organization can help support your ideas and you anticipate this to make progress.
• Persuading - you can argue why your proposal should be chosen and are able to reach compromises to arrive at solutions.