Intern - ONT/Data Engineering, Spring (Jan to June 2025)

Job Summary

SGX (Jan - Jun 2025) Spring Internship Programme

We are Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. We also operate a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).  

We are committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging our roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, we aim to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, we provide listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. We are the world's most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. In foreign exchange, we are Asia's leading marketplace and most comprehensive service provider for global FX over-the-counter and futures participants. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, we are globally recognised for our risk management and clearing capabilities. 

Be a part of this fast-paced world where your contributions count. SGX offers you the unique experience of gaining insights into the Exchange business and the finance value chain. You will be immersed in the respective specialist functions – at SGX, we believe that our interns are involved in real-time work from Day 1. 

This internship programme is on a full-time basis and runs from January – June 2025. We invite you to realise your potential with us!

Note: Leave of Absence (LOA) may be required to take on the internship.

ONT/Data Engineering Internship Programme
We have roles open in:

• Data Engineering - Trading Clearing
• Data Engineering - Corporate

Data Engineering - Trading Clearing

Brief Overview:

As one of the key innovation drivers of the SGX Group, the Data Engineering team is not only involved in new and exciting emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud, but also has the responsibility to design the data architecture and infrastructure, manage the integrity of the data, develop data dictionaries and models to govern the data, and also to build data pipelines, advanced analytics and visualization that will transform and imbue a data-driven culture.

Learning Objectives:

The Data Engineering team is looking for a dynamic intern with a passion for new technologies to challenge him/herself and others with expanded out-of-the-box thinking. The selected intern will learn about SGX’s suite of securities and derivatives products, work with large amounts of data generated by the exchange’s platforms, get involved in the build of ETL pipelines and platform enhancements.

Job Description:

• Build scalable and reliable ETL pipelines and processes to ingest data from multiple sources and create curated layers for users to self-help to the data
• Work with business users to understand data needs
• Build, test and deliver datasets to production
• Build internal tools and dashboards 

Knowledge and Skills requirements:

• Highly driven, pro-active and a strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to multitask effectively and handle large amounts of data
• Good understanding of database concepts 
• Proficiency in SQL 
• Experience in q/KDB+ is an advantage
• Good understanding of financial markets is preferred

Data Engineering - Corporate

Brief Overview:

As one of the key innovation drivers of the SGX Group, the Data Engineering team is not only involved in new and exciting emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud, but also has the responsibility to design the data architecture and infrastructure, manage the integrity of the data, develop data dictionaries and models to govern the data, and also to build data pipelines, advanced analytics and visualization that will transform and imbue a data-driven culture.

Learning Objectives:

The Data Engineering team is looking for a dynamic intern with a passion for new technologies to challenge him/herself and others with expanded out-of-the-box thinking. The selected intern will learn about SGX’s suite of securities and derivatives products, work with large amounts of data generated by the exchange’s platforms, get involved in the build of ETL pipelines and platform enhancements.

Job Description:

• Build scalable and reliable ETL pipelines and processes to ingest data from multiple sources and create curated layers for users to self-help to the data
• Work with business users to understand data needs
• Build, test and deliver datasets to production
• Build internal tools and dashboards 

Knowledge and Skills requirements:

• Highly driven, pro-active and a strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to multitask effectively and handle large amounts of data
• Good understanding of database concepts 
• Proficiency in SQL 
• Experience with Snowflake is an advantage