Senior Data Engineer Finance,Performance & Risk, with Product Owner responsibilities

You will join PGGM Investment Management as a Data Engineer embedded within the Finance, Performance and Risk domain, working directly with risk managers, finance professionals, data stewards and other domain experts. In this role, you act as the vital link between our Finance, Performance and Risk teams and our next‑generation data platform. You will help onboard this new platform while further developing our existing data landscape — designing, building and optimising data products that strengthen the investment process and support our “Know what you Own” ambition.

We will encourage you to take on Data Product Owner responsibilities as well. This might range from managing the backlog together with the Domain Owner to being first point of contact for business teams and representing the domain in data governance and prioritization forums.

Your work goes well beyond technical delivery. You will translate complex analytical needs into tangible data deliverables, shape reliable data models, monitor critical interfaces, and ensure that high‑quality, timely and trustworthy data is available to all stakeholders. You will also help drive innovative data and analytics use cases as part of our broader strategic investment in data capabilities.

Technical expertise is essential, but so is your ability to collaborate effectively with business teams, communicate clearly, and help foster a strong data culture. A solid understanding of investment management and finance — from public and private asset classes to cost accounting and regulatory developments — enables you to ask the right questions and deliver data solutions that truly move PGGM forward.

Key responsibilities

• Enable PGGM’s Finance, Performance and Risk domain’s data strategy by developing high‑quality, reliable and well‑governed data products that support the full investment management organisation.
• Take a proactive role in designing, implementing and continuously improving data processing workflows for diverse and complex data sources — including performance data, risk data, sustainability data and financial data — ensuring they are fit for purpose.
• Ensure high data quality through validation, reconciliation, monitoring and automated controls, recognising that data quality makes or breaks the impact of a data product.
• Work closely with the business teams within the domain and other business stakeholders to understand their objectives, and translate these into clear, effective and actionable technical solutions.
• Collaborate closely with data engineers from other teams, the data infrastructure team and data architects, ensuring alignment in design choices, architecture principles and platform evolution.
• Share knowledge and support capability development within Finance, Performance and Risk by mentoring colleagues, strengthening engineering skills across the team, and helping business stakeholders improve their technical understanding and data‑maturity capabilities.
• Take on Data Product Owner responsibilities, such as managing the backlog , being first point of contact for business teams and representing the domain in data governance and prioritization forums

PGGM manages approximately €250 billion in pension capital on behalf of Dutch pension funds. We invest with a long‑term horizon and a strong sense of responsibility toward the financial security and well‑being of millions of beneficiaries.

From a hierarchical perspective, you will be part of the IM IT Data Solutions team, giving you access to a community of data engineers, architects and platform specialists who ensure high‑quality engineering standards and maintain our next‑generation data platform.

At the same time, your day‑to‑day work will be embedded in the Finance, Performance and Risk domain. We play a crucial role in keeping PGGM Investment Management’s finances and risks in check and supporting the investment organisation to deliver on performance, risk and sustainability (3D investing). Our dynamic domain brings together ten dedicated teams, each with its own expertise, from performing operational due diligence and reporting on investment performance attribution to providing countervailing advice on investment policies. What unites us all is our shared passion for a well-managed organisation and investment portfolio. 

Are you a data‑driven engineer who enjoys working closely with expert teams? This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong foundations in Snowflake, dbt and Python, who enjoys building robust data products, designing scalable pipelines and enabling the business to work more effectively with data. Given your wealth of experience you are comfortable to define modeling strategies, take technical decisions when required and coach your colleagues. If this sounds like you, then this role could be a great fit.  

You have

• Master’s degree in IT, Data Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years data platform or warehouse engineering experience, ideally within asset management
• Deep hands-on Snowflake experience (required)
• Strong dbt experience – advanced level (required)
• Experience with Azure DevOps, or willingness to learn (required)
• Experience with building workflows (ETL pipelines) and strong SQL skills (DDL, DQL, and DML).
• Knowledge of Python, especially focused on data (Snowpark/Pyspark and Pandas).
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum or DevOps environments.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills are a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• The ability to bridge the gap between business and IT stakeholders. 

At PGGM we are proud of our core values: trust, teamwork and innovation. These values arose from the best stories of our colleagues, moments when they were at their best. We believe those moments occur when you can be 100% yourself. At PGGM, we value the unique combination of your personal and professional attributes. Because what really counts at PGGM are people, one hundred percent! At PGGM, you can count on:

• A pleasant workplace at our office in Zeist and, from the middle of 2028, in the center of Utrecht.
• A gross monthly salary in scale 16 or 17 between 5.117 and 8.705 based on 36 hours, depending on your knowledge and experience.
• A thirteenth month.
• A good pension scheme as a member of the PFZW pension fund (71% paid by PGGM, 29% by the employee).
• An annual Fit for the Future budget of €300 net, which you can use to improve your mental, physical, or financial fitness.
• A generous training budget for internal and external training courses or education.
• More than 26 vacation days (employees can choose to swap up to two national Christian holidays for a day that is important to them).
• Flexibility in working hours and working from home options.
• A net internet allowance of €45 per month (€540 per year).
• Group discount on supplementary health insurance (21% in 2024) and dental insurance (15% in 2024).
• A work-from-home arrangement with a maximum allowance of €900 to set up a health and safety-compliant home office.

You can find more information about our terms of employment and salary scales in our collective labor agreement.

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Please contact Tijmen, recruiter, via tijmen.muller@pggm.nl for more information about the role.

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