Junior Data Engineer – Young Engineering Professional Program

Interested in a job in IT and contributing to a better world? Discover your best self with the Young Engineering Professional Program.

You and your future
During the Young Engineering Professional Program (also known as YEPP) at Rabobank you work on your career one day a week by following a technical track, or you work on your personal development. You develop talents you didn’t know you had and we are given the space to discover for yourself what you are good at and what you like. And then? Everything you learn in the training courses can immediately be put into practice, because the other 4 days you work in your starter position as a Junior Data Engineer. Under the guidance of experienced colleagues , you will become a specialist in your field in no time. In addition, in the program you will work together with the team on 2 business challenges on themes such as the cooperative energy transition. 

Within the Strategy & Innovation part of the bank, the Data team is hugely influential for progressing towards a data driven way of working. The data team firmly believes that data is a key asset in today’s financial world. It is our team’s mission to support decision making by data to ultimately help more SME customers. Within our team we have the objective to better understand data; where it comes from, how it is used, and what the quality is. We work together with engineering, credit risk, and other teams to continuously unlock new data sources. By doing so, we aim to improve and optimise our data landscape so our department is able to access and use analytics in all aspects of their work.

Examples

• Work on the implementation of ETL flows in our data infrastructure using PySpark with the Apache Iceberg file format
• Implement the data storage and data views (we use services like Amazon S3, Glue, Athena, MSK, Lambda, MWAA) and measure the data quality in our data infrastructure
• Development of APIs for data integration with other services
• Fix bugs and provide operational support where required for our data infrastructure and ETL flows

Practical

• Length: Young Engineering Professional Program: 18 months
• After which you will continue to work with us as a Data Engineer
• Hours per week: 40

Your development

To become the specialist in your professional field, in the Young Engineering Professional Program 1 day a week you mainly attend training courses that that support your talent development. The courses are often given by experienced colleagues or trainers with a track record. You build your network, gain valuable experience and develop skills which will be of use to you later in your career.

Learning from each other
Development is our top priority. Because the best way to learn is by doing, through mistakes and successes. At Rabobank we offer you the right balance between freedom and supervision. To develop talents you never thought you possessed. To specialize in a professional field or explore the things you're good at and enjoy doing. During the Young Engineering Professional Program you can count on us for excellent supervision. You'll work with experienced colleagues and have lots of contact with young professionals.

“Within this young and ambitious team I got to develop my hard skills as an engineer while I also learned to create a vision on the future data landscape of the bank. I really like it that I can bring my creative self to work”. - Ylaise van den Wildenberg, Data Engineer at S&I

Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• a master degree, in for example computer science or another relevant data analytics study
• 0-2 years of work experience in data integration & transformation (ETL development)
• you have (at least) basic knowledge of Python and SQL and you are familiar with Agile and DevOps way of working
• you have a can do mentality, communication is a skill of yours and you are passionate about data
• knowledge about AWS Cloud services, Terraform/Docker, Airflow and CI/CD Pipeline is good to have 

• learns from mistakes
• adaptive to changing situations
• focus on the solution

This is what we offer you

• Most of all, we offer you an 18 month long rich learning experience, while you advance your career towards an expert in your field
• A gross monthly salary in function scale 7
• A combination of working from home and at the office
• A personal development budget of € 1,400-

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Junior Data Engineer based on a 40-hour working week.

You and the job application process

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. What can you bring to Rabobank? We can't wait to hear from you.

So get in touch straightaway:

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Clemens Schinkel, Corporate Recruiter via Clemens.Schinkel@Rabobank.nl
• An assessment is part of the selection process.
• Interviews will be held via MS Teams or at our office in Utrecht.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.