Graduation Design and Development of a Scalable Skills Intelligence Platform

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Job Description

Assignment type: Graduation

Start date: September 2026

Assignment duration: 5 months

Location: Veghel

Education level: Bachelor / Master

Desired study: Data Science IT Computer Science or a related field

Language: Dutch / English

Description of assignment

Your assignment is to design and build a Proof of Concept for a scalable Skills Intelligence application. Using several existing skill matrices as input you will explore how to centralize automate and visualize skill data in a way that supports both teams and individuals.

The key research question is:

How can we develop a scalable userfriendly application that centralizes skill data and supports crossteam development reporting and decisionmaking

Your Proof of Concept will include at least the following capabilities:

• Automated classification of skill categories across multiple teams
• Reporting of generic skills that are relevant organizationwide
• Sending targeted crossteam training invitations to specific groups
• Searching for skills as part of personal development objectives

The challenge lies in combining data from different existing tools and designing an architecture that can scale remain userfriendly and integrate into future development initiatives.

Department description

You will work within ICT specifically the Central Data Organisation in close collaboration with the People Development Manager. This environment is dynamic and peoplefocused supporting roughly 200 employees and working closely with a field of eight People Development Managers.

The department works on datadriven applications reporting structures and tools that support employee development internal mobility and organizational capability building.

As an intern you will:

• Work closely with stakeholders across People Development
• Collaborate with ICT colleagues on architecture and implementation
• Be part of an environment that encourages experimentation ownership and initiative

Depending on your assignment type you may work either independently or embedded within small project teams.

Tasks/responsibilities

• Design the architectural concept for a scalable skills application
• Build the Proof of Concept in an iterative testdriven approach
• Integrate and process multiple existing skill matrices
• Develop core features such as automation reporting search and notifications
• Validate the POC with stakeholders and incorporate their feedback
• Document technical functional and architectural decisions
• Present results findings and recommendations in your research report

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