2025 Summer Intern - Data Engineering

When can you expect to hear back?
We are committed to attending all career fairs and recruitment events before closing our positions. That means, this position might be open without updates for a few weeks to give us time to connect with all potential candidates before wrapping up the recruitment season. Check out our tentative timeline below to see when you can expect to hear from us! 

• All postings close: September 28, 2024 

• Interviews: Early to Mid October

• Offers: By end of October

2025 Start Dates:
This position has opportunities to start in the Summer. Please see our start date below and let us know your availability.

• Summer Internships: Monday, May 19, 2025 (40/hours per week max)

The Data Engineer Intern will act as part of a collaborative team on assigned data workflows throughout the organization. This role will contribute to building distributed services to support multiple data analytics teams and business intelligence engineers. The Data Engineer Intern will assist the team in providing cutting edge, reliable, and easy to use systems for ingesting and processing data and help the teams that build data intensive applications be successful.

What You'll Do

• Participates in developing data extraction and integration code modules for batch and incremental data flow from various data sources using existing patterns

• Works with team members to deliver value to business partners

• Uses existing tools and applied principles to assist in deploying integration and production code

• Works with team to test software, validate data and write automated tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.)

• Assists in reviewing peer code and submitting feedback

• Assists in triaging and resolving production issues

• Participates in designing database tables that conform to naming standards

What You'll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Finance, Statistics or related discipline is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant class work including data warehousing tools, techniques and technology

• Familiarity with statistical concepts

• Exposure to big data processing and using databases (SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Beam etc.)

• Basic Knowledge of SQL query design and tuning for performance and accuracy

• Basic knowledge of Python, R, or other data relevant scripting languages

• Basic research skills to locate market information using numerous internal and external sources of data

• Interpersonal skills and a strong ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) with business and technical teams

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

• Less than 10% of travel

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office

• Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship now or in the future

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ 401(k) participation and match

✅ Paid sick leave

✅ A unique opportunity to further your learning experience through additional internship seasons

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

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