Oracle Engineer - Blue Yonder

As a skilled Oracle Developer, preferably with in-depth expertise in the Blue Yonder CKB suite. You know how to design and customize the database to meet Albert Heijn’s specific requirements. You enjoy collaborating with business stakeholders and can turn abstract ideas into clear, actionable designs. With your strong communication skills and proactive attitude, you will help optimize our shelf and store layouts and make a real impact within our team! 

This is how you will reinvent food retail. 

• You will work closely with business and the developers to bring new solutions to life.


• You will help to close the tech debt and prepare the groundwork for new technologies.


• You will help design, review and develop architectural solutions that could include more teams or even different clusters teams of AH.


• You help and coach your colleagues and help to have the best possible code quality. 

Your new team and office.
Together with your team of fellow developers and Product Owner, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers the accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal; to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way; both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.  

We think it’s important to be part of a high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to have a look at your resume! 

What we offer 
At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week): 

• An annual salary up to 100k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience.


• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You are the boss!


• Flexible working hours.


• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Top Academy.


• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you as an employee. 


• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train.


• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies.


• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year.


• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.


• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact 

• 8 years of work experience as Oracle Engineer. 


• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database and having Blue Yonder CKB suite experience and planogram generator modules is a big plus.


• You will work close with business, so Dutch is a plus, but not mandatory.


• Bonus if you have experience with C# (and BY API experience) and/or front-end experience.  


• You enjoy teamwork and making things happen. 


• You are tech savvy, proactive and have a big passion for tech. 

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀 
Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So, for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.  

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.
The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. 

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?
Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy. You don’t hit all the marks, but you still want to know more. Please do not hesitate to apply!