Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
€6000 - 8500
32 - 40 hours
Location: United Kingdom / The Netherlands
Build AI-powered internal applications on our global Databricks platform.
Are you an engineer who enjoys solving operational challenges using AI, automation, and modern application development? We are looking for an AI Solutions Engineer who works closely with business teams to deliver AI-powered applications that improve how work is done across the organization.
In this role, you combine strong software engineering skills with an AI-first approach. You leverage AI coding agents as a force multiplier while maintaining ownership of the architecture, quality, scalability, and user adoption. You build practical applications quickly, integrate them into our global data platform, and continuously improve them based on real-world usage.
Your impact
As an AI Solutions Engineer, you work at the intersection of business operations, application engineering, and AI enablement. You collaborate with departments such as Finance, Sales, Marketing, and HR to understand workflows, bottlenecks, and operational pain points.
You build applications and automations on our Databricks-centric platform, using shared governance, data products, and AI capabilities as core building blocks. You contribute to a connected ecosystem where internal tools are scalable, secure, and reusable across regions and teams.
You simplify operational complexity by identifying repetitive tasks, fragmented processes, or disconnected tools and replacing them with targeted AI-powered workflows, internal applications, and intelligent automations that employees actually use.
You work in a pragmatic engineering environment where delivering value quickly is essential. This involves building lightweight applications using technologies such as Databricks Apps, Streamlit, Gradio, or FastAPI, while leveraging AI agents to accelerate development cycles and reduce delivery time from weeks to days.
You collaborate with the Platform, Data, and Reliability teams to ensure solutions comply with engineering standards regarding governance, observability, scalability, and operational reliability.
What you will do
- Work closely with business teams to understand operational workflows, pain points, and opportunities for automation
- Deliver internal tools, AI-powered applications, and process digitization initiatives with a focus on usability and adoption
- Build solutions on the Databricks ecosystem using notebooks, jobs, Delta tables, Unity Catalog, Lakebase, and Vector Search
- Develop lightweight data applications using Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI, Databricks Apps, or similar Python-native tools
- Guide AI coding agents to generate, refine, and validate production-ready code while maintaining engineering quality standards
- Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions that can be delivered quickly and refined continuously
- Create or customize AI agents, orchestration workflows, and intelligent automation capabilities
- Improve operational workflows using automation platforms such as Microsoft Power Automate or similar tools
- Implement observability and monitoring capabilities using Grafana and industry-standard telemetry practices
- Identify issues in production, resolve them quickly, and continuously improve solutions based on user feedback
- Collaborate with Platform, Data, and Engineering teams to ensure applications integrate with the broader platform architecture
- Contribute reusable patterns, workflows, and engineering practices that improve delivery speed across teams
About the role and HeadFirst Group
You will be part of a growing AI-focused engineering team at HeadFirst x Impellam, working with Global Platform, Data, and Engineering teams. You will operate within a shared international platform and engineering framework while being embedded within the business domains you support.
By working with Databricks, AI coding agents, and modern Python-native application tools, you help accelerate the organization’s transformation into an AI-enabled and operationally intelligent business. This role offers exposure to a wide range of business domains, modern AI engineering practices, and pragmatic application development in a fast-paced international environment.
What you get from us- Salary that matches your experience (€6000 - €8500)
- Vacation pay: 8.33% and 27 vacation days per year (full-time)
- Hybrid working: 60/40 split (office three days, work from home two days)
- Premium-free pension
- Performance bonus: potential annual bonus of one or two months’ salary
- Monthly extras: internet allowance, vitality budget, lunch contribution, home office setup support
You are an engineer who is comfortable working on projects from start to finish, from identifying operational challenges to deploying and supporting applications that deliver tangible results.
- Several years of experience developing internal tools, business automation solutions, or process digitization solutions in enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, including notebooks, jobs, Delta tables, Unity Catalog, Databricks Apps, Lakebase, or Vector Search
- Extensive experience with Python-based application development and lightweight engineering frameworks
- Familiarity with Streamlit, Gradio, FastAPI, dbt, or similar tools for rapidly building internal applications
- Experience using AI coding agents or AI-assisted development workflows in day-to-day engineering work
- Understanding of large language models (LLMs), prompts, orchestration patterns, and AI agent concepts
- Familiarity with workflow automation platforms such as Microsoft Power Automate
- Experience in managing applications from development through to operational support and user adoption
- Working knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana and modern monitoring practices
- Ability to evaluate, improve, and maintain code across multiple stacks and technologies
- Comfortable working closely with non-technical stakeholders in embedded business environments
- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Next.js, or Tailwind is a plus for specialized internal application use cases
- Strong functional empathy and the ability to understand operational challenges before proposing solutions
- A pragmatic mindset focused on delivering usable results quickly and iteratively
- Ownership from concept through production implementation and continuous improvement
- Clear communication with technical, operational, and business audiences
- An interest in AI-native engineering and modern application development workflows
- A collaborative approach that balances speed, scalability, and engineering quality
- Adaptability in fast-paced environments where priorities change rapidly
If you enjoy quickly delivering practical AI solutions, working closely with the business, and building on a modern Databricks platform, this role could be the right next step for you.
Ready to join HeadFirst Group?
#J-18808-Ljbffr€6000 - €8500 monthly