Posted May 19, 2026
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
This role is part of our Experience & Engineering team based in the Netherlands. We combine our skills in developing future-ready technical solutions with our expertise in creating beautiful designs to deliver exceptional and engaging digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients like Gant, Inter Milan, bol.com and Just Eat Takeaway.
JOB PURPOSE
Looking to kick off your engineering career as a data engineer? During this internship, you’ll join our talent program designed to shape you into a productive data engineer, capable of working in a multidisciplinary team. We’ll share all the knowledge we have and provide you with the attention, feedback, challenges and support you need to grow into a standout professional. In short, our goal is to help you reach your full potential. A data engineer is the engineer who makes data useful. One moment you’re building pipelines that move and transform data from multiple systems, the next you’re modeling datasets that enable analytics, automation and smarter decision making. You’ll help create the foundations that power digital products, customer insights and AI-driven solutions. From day one, you’ll be paired with a dedicated mentor for 1-on-1 coaching and join a team of passionate engineers always ready to help. You’ll work on real client projects, gaining hands-on experience with modern data platforms and solving real business problems. By the end of your internship, you’ll have built practical experience in modern data engineering and contributed to projects for A-list clients. Take it from us, your resume will be more than ready for a future in the digital industry.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Dive into exciting projects for clients like BOLIA, Tikkie, Foot Locker, BOLIA and bol.com
Work alongside experienced data engineers and analytics engineers on real projects, learning and contributing from day one
Build and improve data pipelines using technologies such as Python, SQL, Airflow and dbt
Work with modern cloud data platforms such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks
Ingest and transform data from APIs, databases, SaaS platforms and event streams
Help model clean, reliable datasets for analytics, reporting and activation use cases
Contribute to data quality, testing, observability and automation practices
Collaborate with developers, analysts and strategists to turn data into business value
Explore how AI and automation can improve data products and engineering workflows. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Even if you don’t tick every box, that doesn’t mean we’re not a match. If you feel like this role could be right for you, just go for it and apply. - You are passionate about data, technology and solving problems
You have a proactive attitude, are naturally curious, and stay aware of trends in data and AI
You have experience through studies, projects or side projects with programming or data work
You have a GitHub, portfolio or project work you can share with your application
You have an interest in topics like data modeling, cloud, analytics or automation
You might already have experience with Python, SQL or working with data
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