Internship Data & AI / AI-Powered Internal Business Assistant

Avanade Inc.; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 7,800 - 11,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade Inc. in Belgium invites you to join its Data & AI practice for a two-month internship.

You will apply Microsoft technologies to an internal challenge, building an AI-powered internal business assistant that makes repetitive processes smarter and faster. You will work with consultants and technical specialists to design, develop, and demonstrate a working prototype, exploring Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's student seeking a two-month internship in Data & AI, software engineering, or IT consulting.
• Interest in Data, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models, and AI Agents.
• Interest in modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric and the broader Microsoft Data & AI ecosystem.
• Interested in understanding and automating business processes.
• Basic programming or software development skills, preferably with Python.
• Curiosity about Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, agentic AI, data platforms, and workflow automation.
• Enjoy translating a real business challenge into a practical technical solution.
• Willing to learn and experiment within a focused two-month timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop an AI-powered internal business assistant for at least one concrete internal use case.
• Experiment with Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and related tools.
• Demonstrate your working prototype and share findings at the end of the internship.
• Collaborate with consultants and technical specialists on a real AI/automation challenge.

Skills

English (strong)

Analytical

Curious

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master's student

Tools

Python

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

An Introduction

Our vision? “To advance the world through the power of people and Microsoft.” Every day, our people use the latest Microsoft technologies to help organizations transform, innovate, and create new possibilities. Within our Data & AI practice, we explore how AI and and modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric can improve both the solutions we deliver to our clients and the way we work internally. During this two-month internship, you will apply these technologies to a real internal challenge and explore how repetitive and knowledge-intensive administrative processes can become smarter, faster, and more efficient.

An Introduction

Our vision? “To advance the world through the power of people and Microsoft.” Every day, our people use the latest Microsoft technologies to help organizations transform, innovate, and create new possibilities. Within our Data & AI practice, we explore how AI and and modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric can improve both the solutions we deliver to our clients and the way we work internally. During this two-month internship, you will apply these technologies to a real internal challenge and explore how repetitive and knowledge-intensive administrative processes can become smarter, faster, and more efficient.

Come Join Us

Avanade is an international IT consultancy where people and technology come together. As an intern, you will become part of our Data & AI practice and work alongside consultants and technical specialists on a real AI and automation challenge. You will have the opportunity to experiment with emerging Microsoft technologies, learn from experienced professionals, and turn your ideas into a tangible working prototype. You will also become part of Avanade's broader intern community, where collaboration, knowledge sharing, learning, and personal development are key. During your internship, you will experience how Data & AI solutions evolve from an initial business challenge into a designed, developed, tested, and demonstrated solution.

What You’ll Do

Our consultants work with a variety of internal administrative and knowledge-intensive processes. These activities can involve collecting information from different sources, analyzing documents, searching for existing knowledge, completing templates, asking stakeholders for missing information, and transforming unstructured input into structured deliverables. During this two-month internship, your challenge will be to explore: How can AI & modern data platforms make internal administrative processes faster, smarter, and more consistent? You will design and develop an AI-Powered Internal Business Assistant, focusing on at least one concrete internal use case. Instead of simply answering questions like a traditional chatbot, the assistant should help users complete an actual business process. This could include understanding what the user wants to achieve, gathering the required information, asking relevant questions, retrieving appropriate knowledge or templates, identifying missing information, and generating a structured result ready for human review.

Examples Of Potential Use Cases Include

• SOW Creation: Guide consultants in creating consistent Statements of Work using the appropriate delivery model and template.
• RFP Analysis: Analyze RFPs and structure key requirements, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and clarification points.
• Proposal & Opportunity Support: Transform opportunity information into structured input for proposals and solutioning activities.
• Other Internal Admin Processes: Automate repetitive internal activities where Data, AI, and automation can reduce manual effort.
• Together with the Data & AI practice, you will select and scope a suitable use case that can be developed into an end-to-end MVP within the two-month internship.
• Depending on your solution design, you may explore technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft 365,Python, Git, and Azure DevOps.
• At the end of the internship, you will demonstrate your working prototype, share your findings, and provide recommendations on how the solution could potentially be extended to other internal processes.

Qualifications

Skills and experiences:

• You are a Bachelor's or Master's student looking for a challenging two-month internship in Data & AI, software engineering, or IT consulting;
• You have a strong interest in Data, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models, and AI Agents;
• You are interested in modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric and the broader Microsoft Data & AI ecosystem;
• You are interested in understanding and automating business processes;
• You have basic programming or software development skills, preferably with some experience in Python;
• You are curious about technologies and concepts such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, agentic AI, data platforms, and workflow automation;
• You enjoy translating a real business challenge into a practical technical solution;
• You are comfortable experimenting with new technologies and turning ideas into a working prototype within a focused timeframe;

Experience with all listed technologies is not required. Curiosity, problem-solving skills, and a willingness to learn are key.

About You

• You have strong communication skills in English; knowledge of Dutch is considered an advantage;
• You are analytical, curious, proactive, and solution-oriented;
• You are comfortable working independently while actively collaborating with colleagues and subject-matter experts;
• You enjoy exploring new technologies and finding practical ways to apply them;
• You are interested in understanding both the business and technical perspectives of a challenge;
• You are pragmatic and able to focus on delivering an achievable MVP within a two-month timeframe;
• You enjoy sharing your findings and demonstrating the solution you have created;
• You are motivated to make a tangible contribution within a professional consulting environment;

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