Data Governance Intern

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

January 31, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Job Summary:

The Data Governance Intern role will provide a unique opportunity to learn key components of the data governance lifecycle at The Coca-Cola Company, while delivering value through support of critical project work. The role will complete an end-to-end data governance experience, using existing analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver value while picking up new experiences and skills that reinforce the concept of data as a strategic asset and gaining intimate knowledge of the The Coca-Cola Company’s iconic brands.  In addition, the role will be responsible for supporting critical project work, driving new enterprise capabilities and enhanced data quality—all in a team environment that promotes company success, personal growth and fun!

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities

• Define new data standards that will enable new capabilities within a domain or function or help to enhance the quality of an existing process
• Deliver enhancements to data governance tools by participating in all scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos).
• Author new global reference data as a critical BAU (business as usual) activity that drives enterprise operations
• Build new data quality rules to drive focus on continuous improvement to the quality of data used in critical enterprise processes
• Directly support cross-domain strategic business initiatives
• Identify opportunities to implement machine learning and/or artificial intelligence solutions as a part of data governance processes and tools to deliver increased efficiency and/or quality
• Identify, remove and/or escalate risks, roadblocks, and cross-team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the team’s ability to deliver commitments.
• Partner with other Data Governance & Data Operations (DG&DO) colleagues that will provide direct support on business initiatives that require evolving master data processes, architecture, and metrics.
• Partner with master and reference data leads across all domains to ensure DG&DO team business stakeholder needs are considered when designing future solutions and enhancements

• Partner with Data Stewards to resolve any data quality concerns impacting DG&DO team business stakeholder systems and/or processes
• Develop subject master expertise regarding how core master/reference data is structured and stored in book of record systems and then consumed downstream into core processes and systems
• Collaborate with business and IT leads on project execution, including testing of new solutions
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the overall DG&DO team and its various business stakeholders

Education Requirements: 

• Student working towards Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in an accredited undergraduate or graduate program
• Currently pursuing a degree in a related major with a final graduation date no earlier than December 2025.

Related Qualifications & Work Experience:

• Strong interest in pursuing data management/analysis/engineering as a career
• Experience with data analysis on large data sets, identifying patterns and ensuring quality
• Experience in process improvement, design, development, and deployment
• Experience with data/metadata management and related technologies a plus
• Experience with the following technology:
  • Project Management Tools (JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, SF Bello, MS Project)
  • ERP (e.g. SAP, Workday)
  • MS Office365 (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)

Skills:

• Ability to manage projects scope and timeline
• Strategic thinking skills, capable of managing complex and fast-moving projects
• Strong analytical skills, utilizing SQL; Python or R a plus
• Advanced organization and prioritization skills
• Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the enterprise ecosystem to help overcome roadblocks
• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
• Understanding of Agile Principles and how they’re applied in workplace culture
• A fundamental understanding of data governance best practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data management.
• Balancing immediate and short-term needs and delivering results
• Ability to manage through ambiguity as well as lead change
• Ability to work across multiple cultures
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills to effectively influence upward and downward across the organization

Growth Behaviors:

• Curious: Keep seeking, never settle. Staying curious about what is outside, and two steps ahead inspires us to challenge the status quo. Having the courage to look and leap is the way we grow. Because asking “what if?” pushes us to the next level as people and as a company.
• Empowered: Make it happen. True empowerment is the result of taking responsibility. This means giving yourself permission to see it, say it and do it, and owning the outcomes. Because we move forward faster when we all take action.
• 1.0, 2.0, 3.0: Push for progress, not perfection. There are very few overnight successes. Greatness is borne of many little victories (and failures). Share v 1.0, test it, and make it better. Then create the next version. Because the moment we think something is perfect, it will be obsolete.

• Inclusive: Include, value and trust each other. We are smart alone but together we are genius. This means being inclusive, giving the benefit of the doubt and being responsible for each other. Because, for our company to thrive for the next 100+ years, smart isn’t enough. We need genius.

Monthly Salary:

• Undergraduate: $4,506
• Graduate: $6,066

Skills:

organization

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.