Agile Coach Tech - Checkout, Loyalty & Payments with DevSecOps experience

As our Agile Coach - you are constantly improving processes within our domain. It is up to you to make sure that our agile teams can do their daily work in the most efficient, effective and enjoyable way.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You are a highly communicative personality, who likes to motivate other people and can discuss issues with colleagues at all levels
• lWork tirelessly to remove bottlenecks, facilitate collaboration, and enhance the flow of work across teams. Your focus on efficiency and effectiveness will help us deliver value to our customers faster
• You are always looking for ways to improve the system. Either by getting your hands dirty yourself, or by creating transparency and challenging the status quo
• You support the development of DevOps team members, Scrum Masters and Product Owners,
• You work perfectly together with the Head of Tech, Engineering Managers and the colleagues from Product to continuously improve Checkout, Loyalty & Payments
• You work together with the other Agile Leads to elevate the Customer Technology Platform as a whole to a higher level. Build trust between teams and stakeholders. You should be a skilled facilitator who can promote open, honest, and constructive dialogue

Your new team and office

At the Checkout, Loyalty and Payments cluster, we ensure our customers can checkout and pay for their groceries both in-store and online. We also provide loyalty programs such as Koopzegels, Airmiles, AH Premium and savings campaign. This is carried out through development of the Albert Heijn app and website, cash registers and all of the backend services needed to give our customers a frictionless experience.

Together with 10 teams of product owners, developers, engineering managers and scrum masters 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 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’re the end boss!
• Flexible working hours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 times more than you as an
• employee;
• A travel allowance or a NS-traject 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 company laptop and telephone

The recipe for maximum impact

• 5 years of work experience as an agile coach.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with several Agile frameworks including DevSecOps
• Big bonus if you have knowledge of payments or loyalty
• You enjoy teamwork and making things happen
• Outstanding command of Dutch and English.
• Bonus if you have process improvement experience

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.

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! An assessment might be part of our selection process.