You're curious about how IT consultancies actually run — not just the tech, but the engine behind it. You like the idea of sitting close to the action: where projects get scoped, consultants get staffed, finances get tracked, and delivery leads make calls that keep clients happy and engagements healthy.
You want an internship where you're not making coffee or shadowing from the sidelines. You want to own real work, see your impact, and walk away genuinely understanding how a modern data consultancy operates from the inside. Bonus points if you genuinely get excited when a messy spreadsheet turns into a clean dashboard, or when a process that used to take three people now takes one click.
Xebia Data is one of the divisions of Xebia Netherlands, which is renowned for its expertise in building strong Data and AI practices to deliver value to our clients. In the past, our team has predicted daily bread demand for millions of loaves, built advanced energy-saving algorithms at a national scale, and established data innovation labs at large multinational companies!
You’ll work with the sharpest data professionals in Europe, people who are not only technically brilliant but also generous with their knowledge. We enjoy the benefits of being part of a large organization while maintaining the energetic atmosphere of a scale-up. Our commitment to our community is strong; we are deeply rooted in the local landscape.
You'll join the Delivery practice, working directly with our Head of Delivery and our Delivery Leads. The role splits roughly 50/50 between hands-on delivery support and a research project of your own.
Half your time: supporting the delivery practice. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the Delivery Leads to keep our engagements running smoothly. That means:
Every engagement we run has a paper trail behind it — and you'll be the one shaping a lot of it. Kickoff decks that set the tone with a new client, status reports that keep stakeholders honest, closeout materials that capture what we built and what we learned. You'll take rough inputs from a Delivery Lead and turn them into something sharp enough to land in a client's inbox.
Alongside that, you'll handle delivery-side finance tasks: tracking spend against budget, supporting invoicing cycles, and flagging variances early so they can be addressed before they become problems. You don't need to be a finance whiz on day one, but you'll leave knowing how a consultancy actually makes (and loses) money on a project.
You'll also be the connective tissue between sales and our consultants — coordinating when new engagements come in, making sure the handover from sale to delivery happens cleanly, and chasing down the small details that otherwise fall through the cracks.
And finally, you'll be one of the key people keeping Cadence, our in-house delivery intelligence platform, up to date with the latest consultant planning. Cadence is how our Delivery Leads see capacity, project health, and staffing in real time — which means the quality of your work directly shapes the quality of decisions made across the practice.
The other half: your research or assignment. Where your curriculum allows for a research component, you'll have dedicated time to work on it. The interview process is built around this — see below.
We keep it simple. Two stages:
Cultural fit conversation. A relaxed chat to see if we click.
Your research proposal. You'll either propose your own research topic or assignment, or pick one from a list we provide and draft out how you'd approach it. We want to see how you think — not how well you've memorized a textbook.