At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise.
It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 75 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 2,500 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.
You have the capability to structure data from 30,000 active data systems, of which 90% are available in real time.
To achieve the best results, it is important to gain insight into all facets of the dairy farm and make well-grounded data-driven decisions. Your task is to make data readily available for our organization regarding animal welfare, rations, grazing, reproduction and robotic performance via our Lely Data Platform. The data directly influences development and operations of the robots, as well as day-to-day business on farms worldwide.
Your position
You will be part of the growing Competence Center Data & AI with other Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts. You will work hands-on in the product domain Digital Farming. Working with tons of robot data from all over the world is what you have a passion for! With >2 years of experience in the field, you know best practices, are accustomed to code reviews and have experience in the cloud. Building scalable and reliable data pipelines is what you love to do. Working closely with our local team in Maassluis, in addition to high end partners in Prague and Sofia exposes you to expert knowledge and capabilities providing a great community to develop your skillset, knowledge base and build up your career.
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Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You contribute to making the agricultural sector future-proof - and we make sure that you get all the space, resources and support you need to do so.
Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or secondment agency? We appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.

As an international family business in the agricultural sector, we spend every day making farmers’ lives easier with innovative solutions and tailored services. We offer solutions for almost all activities in the cowshed: from milking to cleaning. We provide advice on how to organise a dairy farm smartly with the use of management systems. Our vision and the needs and demands of our clients are the things that drive and inspire us.
Something we do since 1948, in this year brothers Cornelis en Arij van der Lely introduced the finger wheel rake to the market. One of our first inventions that made a substantial change in the traditional way of working on the farm. There were many more innovations with only one purpose making agrarian life easier and working together for a sustainable, profitable and enjoyable future in the agricultural sector.