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# Education IT Consultant (1 FTE)

- **Company:** Eindhoven University of Technology
- **Location:** Eindhoven, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Linux, Laboratory Information Management Systems, Remote Access Technology, Software Configuration Management, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Software Licensing, Scripting, Large Language Models, Git, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=05604ef5f866cbeb

## About the Role

* You have a minimum education of a Master's degree or PhD degree, preferably with a background in Computer Science, Data Science or any related field;
 * Years of experience in higher education. You are able to effectively communicate with scientific staff. You empathize well with what moves the teaching staff and their primary processes;
 * You are organizationally sensitive and service-oriented; you initiate and maintain relevant relationships with customers, (key) user groups, and suppliers;
 * You have strong affinity, experience or expertise on what makes IT sustainable (e.g., secure, scalable fit-for-purpose);
 * You are a pleasant collaboration partner and team player for both scientists and the IT back office, thereby mediating between organization and innovation;
 * You initiate action to innovate existing products and services, based on the interest of the department you represent and you can operate independently within constraints of time and resources;
 * You have experience with one or more of the following techniques: Remote computing (cloud and / or on premise), Research Data Management and processing, Software Engineering, Git and / or code repository management, Software Licensing, AI related topics, Internet of Things, Infrastructural Architecture;
 * Experience with scripting and automating workflows, in particular in Linux OS, is a bonus;
 * Strongly developed process- and project-oriented thinking;
 * Excellent proficiency (speaking and writing) in English, and preferably Dutch.

## Description

As an education IT consultant, you work in collaboration with teaching and support staff to develop sustainable IT products, services and workflows. You have a leading implementation role in setting up what is needed to reach this goal. You are in the proximity of the department and its IT landscape, and you are part of a multidisciplinary team in which you share and learn from each other's knowledge and expertise. You work for a department which fosters diverse education and innovation, requiring highly specialized technology. With your broad range of interests, expertise and ability to oversee the complex landscape of interests and challenges, you're enabled to take the lead on what's needed, so that the teachers can focus on their most innovative work. You will also have the opportunity to build up an extensive network and to specialize in relevant educational areas. In this role, you will contribute to the ambition of the Beethoven program to educate top talent and
strengthen research across the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Functionally, you report to the IT business owner of M&CS.

How this looks like in practice? Read the following section for an impression:

A typical week of an Education IT consultant at M&CS
On Monday, you start the week together with your team of experts ("The Hub"), and review the current developments and your activities at M&CS. Together with the IT business owner, you align on priorities, discuss impediments and determine tactics for the best approach. In the afternoon, you visit a teacher who wants to provide their students sufficient compute resources and is looking for efficient allocation. You advise them on what resources could be suitable for this use case and optionally get them in contact with expert support on this topic. At the same time, you notice you receive this type of questions quite often, so you coordinate with the back-office to make sure we can support this type of requests in a sustainable way for the future.

On Tuesday, you work out a plan to facilitate in the IT requirements for an upcoming course, in alignment with the TU/e policies and frameworks. In particular, the exams need guidance and support in enabling a robust digital assessment process. In the afternoon, you investigate how students can easily access APIs for LLMs and what type of procedures ensures a responsible disclosure of them. As other scientific departments also might want to learn about this, you navigate through your network to offer your services proactively.

On Wednesday, you work at home and focus on developing and testing the various options for a configuration to enable student groups to operate a number of machines. You do this in collaboration with your expert colleague who knows all the relevant technical aspects. You maintain a close feedback loop with the teaching organization and make agreements on structural support of the prototype. In the afternoon, you receive a funding proposal for an innovative approach in education, and you advice in the feasibility of integration and the border conditions for implementation.

On Thursday, you meet the management during your regular check-in moment to report on the progress. Their ambition is to embed sustainable IT solutions in the department's education, especially in the light of the growth of Beethoven. You have prepared your ideas in advance, based on input of your stakeholders (e.g., teaching staff of M&CS, the Educational Management Team, TU/e's IT department LIS, TU/e's education service department ESA), your current overview, user data and openings for improvements. Some actions are needed, for instance, some of the deployed products suffer from bus factor = 1, so it's important that ICT strategy and implementation are aligned for any further measures. Fully equipped with support, you set out actions to lead the change.

On Friday, you work on an often mentioned frustration point of submitting grades in multiple systems and you analyze how to streamline this process better. Also you received a request to consult on a data management workflow how to handle digital exam data given the obligations within the accredited courses. You have a call with education advisors in the afternoon to work out the details and you contribute to the technical aspects of the workflow.

Responsibilities and core tasks

 * Acquiring projects that contribute to supporting teaching staff of M&CS in their IT needs;
 * Coordinating broader educational IT demand and (new) initiatives to sustainable solutions;
 * Integrating (the functionalities of) existing educational tooling in courses and streamlining existing digital processes in collaboration with the relevant team(s);
 * Hardening of the current education IT landscape (e.g., robust capacity, security and privacy aspects, product support);
 * Helping teachers how to use IT in a responsible and effective way;
 * M&CS-specific ambitions integration in the education IT landscape (e.g., explore ways of digitization of courses, how AI can reduce workload, developing BI insights, contribute to professionalizing in-house developed products)
 * Perform stakeholder management while working with financial limitations and existing organizational frameworks, * A pre-employment screening (e.g. knowledge security check) can be part of the selection procedure. For more information on the knowledge security check, please consult the National Knowledge Security Guidelines.
 * Important for non-EU applicants: Please be aware that for this position, specific residence permit requirements apply. If you are a non-EU national, you may not be eligible to legally work in this role under current Dutch immigration regulations. We strongly advise you to contact our Staff Immigration Team (staffimmigration@tue.nl) before applying to check your eligibility and to receive further guidance.
 * Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.


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