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Skills for Success
Skills for Success
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills and customer relationship skills
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects concurrently.
- Experience using Python and Spark to develop data engineering pipelines
- Experience using SQL to work with database tables and ETL processes.
- Taken coursework in data analytics, machine learning, statistics, or computational mathematics preferred.
- Must be a college student, sophomore, or higher standing, currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in data analytics, data science, computer science, management information systems, mathematics, or related field of study.
- Must be available June 2026 - August 2026.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and the Windows operating environment.
- Assist in building and maintaining data pipelines to collect, process, and transform data from various sources.
- Work with team members and business groups to understand data requirements and support analytics projects.
- Help prepare clean and structured datasets for use by Data Scientists and Analysts.
- Perform basic data discovery, profiling, and quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Support development of ETL processes using Python, Spark and SQL under guidance from senior team members.
- Learn and assist in implementing data models and storage solutions in relational and cloud-based systems.
- Follow data security and governance best practices when handling data.
- Monitor and troubleshoot simple data workflows with guidance from the team.
- Document data processes and tasks to support transparency and learning.
- Collaborate using Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, and Azure DevOps for communication and project organization.
- Respond to feedback from team members and strive for continuous learning and improvement.
- Perform any additional responsibilities as requested or assigned.
- Perform responsibilities as directed within determined time frames and with a high degree of accuracy.
- Establish and maintain effective work relationships within the department and the company.
- Maintain the professional competence, knowledge and skills necessary to effectively complete responsibilities; enhance job knowledge and abilities by taking personal responsibility for professional development and training.
- Maintain sensitive and confidential information regarding company information.
- Attend work on a regular basis and support the company's employee policies and procedures, including workplace safety rules.
- Ensure all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understand and comply with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.