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Job Description
Upbound Group Summer 2026 Internship – Data Governance & Data Engineering Intern
Who We Are
Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD) is a technology and data-driven leader in accessible and inclusive financial solutions that address the evolving needs and aspirations of underserved customers. The Company’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Acima, Brigit, and Rent-A-Center that facilitate consumer transactions across a wide range of store-based and digital channels, including over 2,300 company branded retail units across the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
Summer Intern Program
Upbound Group’s 2026 Summer Intern Program offers an immersive professional development experience that goes beyond traditional internships, providing participants with a comprehensive opportunity to grow both personally and professionally through dynamic networking events, engaging volunteer activities, and exclusive executive leadership speaker sessions. Interns can anticipate a robust learning environment that balances structured training modules with self-paced learning pathways, enabling them to explore their potential, develop critical skills, and gain meaningful insights into corporate culture.
Program Dates
The ten-week program will run from June 1 through August 7, 2026, and is an in-office experience at our Plano headquarters in Plano, TX.
The Role
Join Upbound Group’s (UPBD) Data Governance team this summer for a hands-on internship at a $4.6 billion financial services firm. We are looking for a motivated student to help us in our data quality, data catalog, and data lineage initiatives. You will use Python, metadata, SQL, and AI agents to create data quality checks that run against Snowflake data assets. You may be asked to help document and trace the flow of data within our enterprise, which will require some familiarity with YAML and GitHub. You will work directly with leadership to solve real-world data challenges in a professional, large-scale environment.
This role is intended for individuals who are excited about data science, data engineering, data management, or data analytics. As such, we prefer those majoring in Information Management, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or any Data discipline. Those from other areas of study are encouraged to apply if they have the requisite skills and interests.
Required Skills
Summer Interns at Upbound Group are paid hourly in accordance with usual payroll procedures.
$22.00 per hour
Upbound Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non- discriminatory basis, and without regard to actual or perceived race (the definition of race also includes traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and braids, locks, and twists), religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity, transgender, and gender expression), age, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law.
Upbound Group is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Upbound Group Summer 2026 Internship – Data Governance & Data Engineering Intern
Who We Are
Upbound Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPBD) is a technology and data-driven leader in accessible and inclusive financial solutions that address the evolving needs and aspirations of underserved customers. The Company’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Acima, Brigit, and Rent-A-Center that facilitate consumer transactions across a wide range of store-based and digital channels, including over 2,300 company branded retail units across the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
Summer Intern Program
Upbound Group’s 2026 Summer Intern Program offers an immersive professional development experience that goes beyond traditional internships, providing participants with a comprehensive opportunity to grow both personally and professionally through dynamic networking events, engaging volunteer activities, and exclusive executive leadership speaker sessions. Interns can anticipate a robust learning environment that balances structured training modules with self-paced learning pathways, enabling them to explore their potential, develop critical skills, and gain meaningful insights into corporate culture.
Program Dates
The ten-week program will run from June 1 through August 7, 2026, and is an in-office experience at our Plano headquarters in Plano, TX.
The Role
Join Upbound Group’s (UPBD) Data Governance team this summer for a hands-on internship at a $4.6 billion financial services firm. We are looking for a motivated student to help us in our data quality, data catalog, and data lineage initiatives. You will use Python, metadata, SQL, and AI agents to create data quality checks that run against Snowflake data assets. You may be asked to help document and trace the flow of data within our enterprise, which will require some familiarity with YAML and GitHub. You will work directly with leadership to solve real-world data challenges in a professional, large-scale environment.
This role is intended for individuals who are excited about data science, data engineering, data management, or data analytics. As such, we prefer those majoring in Information Management, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or any Data discipline. Those from other areas of study are encouraged to apply if they have the requisite skills and interests.
Required Skills
- Some experience with a relational database like PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DuckDB, MariaDB, Snowflake, or MySQL.
- Bonus if you have worked with any datasets in the millions of rows.
- Experience writing SQL
- You will learn on the job, of course, but if you are comfortable with and can explain CTEs, subqueries, EXISTS, inner and outer and lateral joins, MINUS/INTERSECT/EXCEPT/UNION, GROUP BY, HAVING, and windowing clauses, this will really set you ahead of other applicants.
- Some experience coding with Python
- You’ve already played with and built something useful with AI
- Extra points if you’ve used advanced models to augment coding activities
- Data Quality: Help design and implement enterprise-grade data quality monitoring, including deterministic validation rules, reconciliation and balance checks, and analytical techniques such as statistical profiling and anomaly detection, to ensure accurate and trustworthy financial data
- Data Lineage & Cataloging: Map complex data flows to ensure transparency and traceability across the organization.
- Data Engineering: Assist in examining and improving pipelines built on Fivetran, Python, and Snowflake.
- Modern Data Stack and Enterprise-level Data Velocity and Volume: Gain professional experience working with Python, GitHub, agentic AI, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL.
- Collaboration: Work alongside senior leaders in data science, data engineering, data analytics, finance, marketing, sales, and operations to understand the cost of poor data quality, and how data governance drives impactful outcomes in the financial services industry.
Summer Interns at Upbound Group are paid hourly in accordance with usual payroll procedures.
$22.00 per hour
Upbound Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non- discriminatory basis, and without regard to actual or perceived race (the definition of race also includes traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and braids, locks, and twists), religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity, transgender, and gender expression), age, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law.
Upbound Group is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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