Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist

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
NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer this job fully remote as a virtual assignment. As part of this role, you will have an employment contract under the local collective labour agreement (CLA) from one of the NN International countries participating in this workstream. This means you can apply for the job if you reside in the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Spain, and Greece. Once we know from which country you will perform the job, we will be able to inform you better about the local employee benefits. If you think that your profile can fit with us and you like who we are, do not hesitate to sign in to our offers. We are waiting for 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.