As part of Bentley’s annual Early Careers intake, you’ll join a community of around 93 trainees including Industrial Placements, Graduates, and Apprentices.
During your placement, you’ll be based at our Bentley Campus "Dream Factory". Alongside hands-on work experience, you’ll also benefit from:
As an Industrial Placement Student at Bentley, you will play a key part in Bentley’s journey to extraordinary vehicles for our customers.
Based out of our state-of-the-art headquarters in Crewe, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data platforms, pipelines, and capabilities that enable Bentley to become the benchmark for customer and company performance metrics.
By ensuring the availability, quality, security, and accessibility of data across the organisation, the role provides the foundation for trusted insight, effective decision-making, and data-driven innovation.
The role contributes to the delivery of Bentley's data strategy through the implementation of scalable data engineering solutions, supporting key areas including data architecture, governance, integration, and platform development. Working with data from a wide range of enterprise systems and external sources, the role ensures that data is collected, transformed, managed, and made available for analytical, operational, and business use cases.
At a mid-level of complexity, impact and risk, the role is responsible for developing and optimising data pipelines, data models, and data products that enable the efficient movement and utilisation of data across the enterprise. They collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, improve data quality, and support the delivery of reporting, analytics, and AI capabilities that drive measurable business value.
This role forms part of the central Data Office and works in partnership with teams across Bentley to strengthen organisational data capability, promote best practice, and enable the successful execution of Bentley's data and digital strategy.
Bentley’s Data Office’s vision is to create a more connected and intelligent Bentley, where trusted data and responsible AI empower our people, connect decisions across the vehicle and customer lifecycle, and continuously raise the benchmark for performance, luxury and value. We deliver this vision through the provision of data and AI capability that enables the business to easily connect to data, analyse it and make informed decisions.
The team consists of Senior Data Engineers, Data Engineers and Degree Apprentices who are responsible for the delivery of data pipelines that delivers data efficiently to the business users. The Data Office sits within a wider IT team and operates a “Hub and Spoke” model (i.e. centralised data architecture and governance, federated analytics).
To be eligible for an Early Careers programme you must have a legal right to work in the UK for the duration of the placement or graduate scheme. We welcome students who have Settled Status, a Tier 4 Visa, or a Graduate Visa. We are unable to offer sponsorship for our Early Careers positions.
As an Industrial Placement you will have access to the following benefits:
Motivated to be the most diverse, inclusive luxury car company, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals are respected, valued, and empowered.
We firmly believe in equal opportunities for all, helping all colleagues thrive as their authentic selves and reach their highest potential. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs, belongs at Bentley. Everyone is entitled to respect and dignity and we positively celebrate the differences between people.
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We understand candidates are likely to use AI to support with the application process; however over-relying on AI can make your application feel impersonal and a duplication of many other applications we receive. We are keen to understand the real you, your passion, values and skills that are unique to you shine through. By using AI as a support tool rather than a substitute for your own voice, you’ll create a more compelling and genuine application. We look forward to getting to know the real you!
