Data Engineering Intern

Data Engineering Intern

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada. 
 

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you. 

 
Reporting to the Leader, Data Engineering - the Data Engineering Intern will play a supporting role in the fulfillment of data requirements, leading value-add analytics and insights that contribute to business efficiencies and growth. Supporting the Senior Data Engineering Developers, the opportunity will provide further technical development and programming skills, gaining experience working with large datasets, various on-prem and cloud technologies and contributing to Interac's mission of powering and enhancing the digital economy in Canada.

You’ll be responsible for:   

• Working with internal data and analytics consumers to deliver data from source to target

• Monitoring and addressing the data quality issues

• Building, automating and/or deploying internal tools to solve problems or improve processes

• Generating new ideas, challenging the status quo, taking risks, supporting change, encouraging innovation, and solving problems creatively

• Managing deliverables and timelines, negotiating with internal stakeholders to meet relevant project milestones.

• Developing feature enhancements for data replication pipelines

• Monitoring and driving remediation of data flow issues

• Supporting the data pipelines jobs and aggregation executions

• Documenting practices, processes and standard

• Providing root cause analysis and reduction in data flow issues

• Reporting impediments to stake holders

• Updating and organizing documentation

You bring:  

• You are currently enrolled in a university or college program in a relevant discipline, like Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science or similar field

• Experience with programming and development skills (like SQL (any dialect), Python, Jira & Confluence)

• Ability to articulate complex concepts to communication to written technical documentation

• You have great time management and organization, by prioritizing and managing your time to meet deadlines

• Have a since of curiosity and drive to identify opportunities to support internal processes

• Have strong analytical and problem skills, to trouble shoot and drive continuous improvement initiatives 

• Confidence in your ability to communicate verbally in an impactful way

• Comfortable with learning and working effectively either independently or with groups across different functions and levels.  

• Although not required, you have some familiarity or previous experience with the following: 

• Although not required, you have some familiarity or previous experience with the following:

  • Data warehousing concepts

  • Familiarity with Linux-based systems

  • Git Fundamentals

  • PySpark / Distributed Computing

  • Talend, AWS, Oracle 

Workstyle: Hybrid

Location: Toronto

Term: January to April 2025

Working Days: Monday - Friday

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE:

• You must be eligible to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a Full Time Capacity and to be eligible for Interac internship roles

• You must be currently enrolled in a Canadian post secondary academic institution.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.  We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check;
• Public safety verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• 5-year employment verification;
• Education verification; and
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work.  Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values:  They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you