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<p><strong>Internship data engineering </strong></p><p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:17.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246">Internship data engineering – Fleet Support Center NL</p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246"><span style="color:#1e3246">Alstom Netherlands</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246"> </p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">1.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Alstom</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Alstom is a global leader in the manufacturing, maintenance and service of rolling stock, infrastructure, signaling and digital mobility. Within the Benelux service organization, the Fleet Support Center provides digital solutions that help transform operational data into actionable insights for maintenance, troubleshooting and service delivery.</p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">As the number of connected fleets and real-time data streams continues to grow, the Fleet Support Center is further professionalizing its data platform to ensure higher throughput, reliable processing and scalable data quality controls across its analytical and operational use cases.</p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">2.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Internship assignment</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">For this internship, Alstom is looking for a student interested in data engineering who will contribute to improve the throughput, scalability and reliability of the Fleet Support Center data platform. The assignment focuses on designing practical, scalable solutions for real-world data flows, with flexibility to align the content with the student’s interests.</p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Depending on the student’s interests, the internship may focus on data modeling, pipeline architecture, orchestration design, or distributed data processing. The student will work with technologies such as Pandas, Polars or Spark to design efficient data pipelines, selecting the appropriate tooling based on workload characteristics such as data volume, velocity and complexity.</p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">In parallel, the student will design configurable schema-based validation steps to improve data quality and trustworthiness. These validation mechanisms will ensure that data is structurally correct and reliable before being used in downstream applications such as BI dashboards, monitoring solutions and data science use cases.</p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">3.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Scope</h1> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Analyze existing data flow and identify bottlenecks affecting throughput, latency and maintainability.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Profile the incoming datasets and support technology selection (Pandas, Polars, Spark) based on workload characteristics.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Design scalable architectures for ingestion, transformation and storage of operational data.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Develop prototype pipelines for representative data flows and processing scenarios.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Design configurable schema-based validation rules and data quality checks.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Evaluate solutions based on throughput, execution time, data quality and maintainability metrics.</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">At a later stage, it will be determined which fleet, subsystem or business process will be selected as the primary pilot case. Depending on the data profile relevant at the time of starting the internship, the pilot may focus on large-scale historical data processing, frequent incremental loads or real-time processing operational data.</p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">4.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Organization</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">The project team consists of the following functions:</p> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:16.0px"> <li style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Data engineering / data science: the student and the Alstom data specialist(s). This team will be responsible for the technical analysis, architecture design and implementation of the pipeline improvements.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Fleet Support Center officer: this team will help validate whether the improved data flow supports daily operational needs and service processes.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Engineering: this team will support the definition of source-system logic, data semantics and validation rules from a domain perspective.</li> </ol> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">The student will work closely with the Fleet Support Center team and will be involved in regular operational governance, sprint reviews and alignment on architecture, validation approach and measurable business impact.<span style="font-family:Alstom;color:black;background-color:white"> </span>The compensation fee for an internship is € 350 gross per month, and for a graduation assignment € 400 per month. </p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">5.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Expected deliverables</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-indent:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">The exact deliverables depend on the final scope of the internship, which will be defined based on the student’s interests and business priorities. Typical outcomes include:</p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Analysis of current data flows and identification of bottlenecks,</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">A proposed improvement in data architecture, modeling, or pipeline design,</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">One or more prototypes (e.g. scalable pipelines using Pandas, Polars or Spark),</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">A configurable schema-based validation approach,</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">And an evaluation of results in terms of throughput, data quality, and maintainability.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">The final deliverables should demonstrate both practical engineering impact and a structured approach to solving real-world data challenges.</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246"> </p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">6.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Scientific Contribution</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Depending on the type of internship (e.g. HBO or Master thesis), there may be a requirement for a scientific contribution.<br>The internship offers the opportunity to investigate how different data engineering approaches can be applied effectively in an industrial environment. This may involve evaluating processing techniques, architectural choices, or validation strategies under varying conditions such as data volume, complexity, and usage requirements.<br>The scientific contribution lies in the structured analysis and comparison of alternative solutions, focusing on the trade-offs between performance, scalability, maintainability, and data reliability. Rather than implementation alone, the emphasis is on developing a well-founded approach supported by analysis, experimentation, and evaluation.<br>The assignment is therefore suitable for a thesis-oriented project in which practical engineering work is combined with a <strong>systematic research methodology</strong> and results in insights that are transferable beyond the specific use case.<br><br></p> <h1 style="margin:12.0pt 0.0cm 0.0cm 35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Medium';color:#1e3246;font-weight:normal">7.<span style="font:7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Competences required</h1> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">The student requires the following competencies to complete the internship:</p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Proficiency in Python.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Strong interest in data engineering, data pipelines and scalable processing architectures.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Experience with data manipulation libraries such as Pandas and Polars; familiarity with Spark is a strong advantage.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Understanding of data modeling, ETL / ELT concepts and performance optimization techniques.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Knowledge of data validation, schema design and data quality monitoring approaches.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Experience with SQL and working with structured and semi-structured data.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Ability to analyze results and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246">Knowledge of Git and notebook-based or code-based development workflows.</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Antarctica Standard';color:#1e3246"> </p><p> </p> <p>Are you enthusiastic? We can totally imagine! Apply via the button. For more information you are welcome to reach out to Erik Sonneveld. Reach him via 06 53 47 63 77 (WhatsApp or via calling). <br><br>We're looking forward to meeting you! </p>