Senior MLOps/Data Engineer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Platform Products – LP PU Directions /
Employee, Full Time /
Hybrid
What you'll do
In a nutshell, own the end-to-end ML lifecycle on Azure and Databricks, working with applied scientists to operate reliable models.
- Orchestrate and maintain ML pipelines (ingest → feature engineering → train → evaluate → deploy→monitor→repeat) on Azure + Databricks
- Standardize experimentation using MLflow or similar tools (tracking, artifacts, model registry, stages)
- Automate jobs with Databricks Workflows and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps)
- Implement data & model observability: freshness/completeness, drift (features/model), training/serving skew, SLA/SLO monitoring
- Ensure security & compliance
- Handle incidents and post-mortems for ML pipelines and serving infrastructure
What you'll need
- Excellence in Python software engineering and developing tests
- Fundamental understanding of Machine Learning
- 3+ years in Data Eng/MLOps roles
- Strong PySpark
- Hands-on with Databricks and Delta Lake
- CI/CD for data/ML (Git, PR workflow, automated tests, environment pinning)
- Azure basics
- Monitoring and building dashboards
- Clear communication; operational-excellence mindset (SLA/SLO ownership)
What's nice to have
- Unity Catalog experience
- Databricks Feature Store
- Terraform for workspace/clusters/jobs/UC objects
- Telemetry domain exposure
- Optimize PySpark jobs (partitioning, caching, etc.) and cost (autoscaling, spot).
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
