Senior Data Engineer Portfolio Management & Policy

We are building a modern analytics engineering stack centered around Snowflake and dbt and are investing in platform-first data product development. You will join PGGM Investment Management as a Senior Data Engineer embedded within the Total Portfolio & Policy (TPP) domain, working directly with portfolio managers, traders, researcher and other domain experts. In this role, you act as the vital link between our expert teams and our next‑generation data platform. You will take technical ownership of data models, transformations, and platform design patterns, ensuring performance, scalability, data quality, and governance-by-design data products that strengthen the investment process and support our “Know what you Own” ambition.

Your work goes well beyond technical delivery. You will translate complex investment and 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 across the TPP domain 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 financial data, from instruments and pricing to market data flows, enables you to ask the right questions and deliver data solutions that truly move the investment function forward.

Key responsibilities

• Enable the TPP domain data strategy by developing high‑quality, reliable and well‑governed data products that support the full investment chain across all teams.
• Take a proactive role in designing, implementing and continuously improving data processing workflows for diverse and complex data sources - including market data, fundamental data and ESG data - ensuring they are fit for analysis, investing and reporting purposes.
• Ensure high data quality through validation, reconciliation, monitoring and automated controls, recognizing that data accuracy directly influences investment insights, risk management and reporting.
• Take a leading role in sharing your knowledge and support capability development within the domain by mentoring colleagues, strengthening engineering skills across the team, and helping business stakeholders improve their technical understanding and data‑maturity capabilities.
• Work closely with investment experts and other business stakeholders to understand their objectives, and translate these into clear, effective and actionable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with data engineers from other teams, the data infrastructure team and data architects, ensuring alignment in design choices, architecture principles and platform evolution.

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 TPP domain. We play a crucial role in shaping and implementing all strategic and investment policies for our client PFZW, directly at the balance sheet level. Our dynamic domain brings together ten dedicated teams, each with its own expertise, from designing strategic asset allocations and managing overlay hedges, to setting ambitious sustainability policies. What unites us all is our shared passion for unlocking even greater value from our data. Join us and help drive innovation and excellence across the entire 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 building workflows (ETL pipelines) and strong SQL skills (DDL, DQL, and DML).
• Experience with Azure cloud data environments
• 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 work independently, while always aligning with the broader architecture and organizational objectives

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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