Vacature: Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist - View vacancy

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of Nationale Nederlanden Group located in Madrid, Spain.

Our main objective is to create, deliver and maintain insurance product management solutions, as service propositions to enable any agent (linked or direct), machine or company to create and sell insurance products in Europe in an automated way and real time.

We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units from Nationale Nederlanden Group.

For the Data & AI department at NN Group IT we are seeking an experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist who will help raise the data engineering capability across the organization. This role is a core team member of the Data Engineering Guild driving standards, best practices, and community enablement and acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the DLP Data Engineering learning track. The NN Data Engineering Guild consists of 270+ data engineers and data platform engineers spread across 10+ Business units/ countries.

What you are going to do

In this role you will be a technical leader, coach, and community builder for NN’s Data Engineering Guild – our global community of data engineers (270+ members). Your will raise the data engineering maturity across a large, federated enterprise by defining best practices, fostering an engaged engineering community, and driving adoption of common tools and platforms. By combining deep hands-on expertise with exceptional communication and coaching skills, you will help diverse teams deliver trusted, scalable, and well-governed data products more efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and drive data engineering standards & best practices: Establish and maintain robust engineering guardrails that are adopted by teams across business units

Community leadership & evangelism: Organize and facilitate Guild events such as meetups, tech talks, office hours, and hackathons to build an active, engaged data engineering community. Serve as a visible champion for shared success, encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams

Promote reusable patterns & platform adoption: Evangelize reusable engineering patterns, platform capabilities, and shared assets

Develop and curate learning programs: Own and continuously improve NN’s Data Engineering learning track (part of our internal Data Literacy Program). Ensure the curriculum remains up-to-date, relevant, including creating engaging exercises and assessments

Training & onboarding enablement: Deliver training workshops, and onboarding programs for new and experienced data engineers. Act as a coach and mentor, fostering an enablement culture where engineers across all business units can advance their skills

Document and communicate effectively: Develop clear documentation, guidelines, FAQs, and playbooks, and ensure these knowledge assets are well-structured, up-to-date, and easily accessible

Cross-functional collaboration: Represent Data Engineering in cross-domain forums and communities of practice (e.g. with other guilds Data Science, Architecture, or Engineering)

Influence without direct authority: Work closely with data engineering teams in different business units and the central Data Platform team to align on best practices and standards

What we offer you

Who you are

You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree and corresponding thinking level

You have 5+ years of experience in data engineering and/or data platform development in a large-scale enterprise environment

You have strong hands-on experience with lakehouse/data platform technologies (Databricks preferred) and modern data engineering practices

You have a solid understanding of lakehouse architectures, data modeling (including medallion patterns), ingestion and transformation patterns, and data quality concepts

You are comfortable working in an agile environment and can drive initiatives through influence rather than formal authority

You communicate clearly, facilitate groups confidently, and can adapt your message to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

You have a strong enablement mindset and enjoy coaching others, designing learning experiences, and growing an engineering community

Optional / nice to have:

Experience building or running internal enablement programs (academies, learning tracks, communities of practice, guilds)

Relevant certifications (e.g., Databricks Data Engineer) or equivalent demonstrated expertise

Experience working in an enablement-focused setup (CoE, platform team, or federated operating model) is a plus

Who you will work with

You will be part of the Data & AI enablement ecosystem, working across the organization to strengthen data engineering capabilities. In this role you will collaborate closely with the DLP stakeholders and the Data Engineering Guild core team to drive standards, community engagement, and adoption.

We value teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning, and we actively encourage innovation and personal development.

Please submit your CVs in English language.

In Nationale-Nederlanden we are committed with diversity. We are proud to be an inclusive organization and we offer equal opportunities, regardless of race, cultural background, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, and sexual orientation. One of our core values is taking care of our employees so they can give their best within a respectful environment.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to reach out to our Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at liselotte.van.der.zeeuw1@nn-group.com.

Stel je vraag aan Liselotte van der Zeeuw

Bij NN geloven we dat onze kracht ligt in het omarmen van de volledige diversiteit van de mensheid. We erkennen en waarderen ieders uniciteit en bijdrage, wat ons in staat stelt om te groeien: als individu, als team en als organisatie.

Diversiteit, Gelijkheid en Inclusie zijn verankerd in onze cultuur, die wordt geleid door onze kernwaarden: care, clear en commit. Deze waarden helpen ons om een werkomgeving te creëren waarin iedereen zich welkom, gerespecteerd en trots voelt om deel van uit te maken.

Be you. You have our support.

Ben je net zo enthousiast?

Je wordt doorgestuurd naar NN's recruitment systeem, Workday, waar je kunt solliciteren en jouw sollicitatie kunt beheren.

Kan ik je ergens mee helpen?

Liselotte van der Zeeuw

Recruiter

Send email to Liselotte van der Zeeuw

Wat gebeurt er na je sollicitatie?

1 Je solliciteert

Jouw CV en motivatie worden door de Talent Acquisition Specialist en manager bekeken. Je ontvangt een reactie binnen twee weken.

2 Interview(s) en online assessment

We streven ernaar binnen een week het eerste gesprek in te plannen. Voorafgaand aan je tweede gesprek vragen we je een online assessment te maken.

3 Aanbod

Zijn we een match? Dan ontvang je van ons direct een aanbieding. De Talent Acquisition Specialist loopt samen met jou het aanbod door.

4 Welkom bij NN

Aanbieding geaccepteerd? Gefeliciteerd! Om alles ook administratief goed te regelen starten we de pre-employment screening en sturen we jouw arbeidsovereenkomst toe.