Data Engineering Intern – Houston, TX
Data Engineering Intern – Houston, TX
About the Role
It’s all about the data! There is no surprise that data pervades every corner of our planet, making it the most valuable resource. Data’s value stems from its potential to be distilled into a crucial commodity. In its most refined state, data can be transformed into knowledge which powers decision making and provides opportunities for efficiencies and increased revenue.
Come blaze passion into designing, building, and integrating big data with the Data Engineering team to help make data and its pipelines more useful to the enterprise. Supercharge your human operating system and learning capacity while experimenting with new technology products, building, and maintaining data structures and architecture for data ingestion and processing. You’ll learn techniques, approaches and help develop technology products that enable data discovery, visualization, and insights. At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
Our internship program offers you just that plus the opportunity for hands-on experience working on real projects that deliver tangible benefits and measurable results. You will work alongside our highly qualified and professional colleagues. We take interns studying a wide range of subjects to allow you to explore new career aspiration and develop the technical skillset for you to have a successful career.
Summer internships last 12 weeks.
About You
Apply your insatiable curiosity to create data ingestion patterns and deliver data to consumers
Develop queries or algorithms to ingest data from various sources into a cloud-based environment and data ecosystem
Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data
Assist in preparing big data infrastructure for large-scale data intensive applications
Optimize and engineer cloud architectures, data storage technologies
Activate your limitless potential in designing, building and testing data products, scripts or connectors for advanced analytics
Minimum Requirements
Must have cumulative and major GPA of 3.0 or higher
No sponsorship available for this position
Experience designing, testing, optimizing, and troubleshooting ETL solutions.
Experience writing software in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Scala).
Experience database technologies and SQL.
Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related technical or business field
Must be available for a continuous 12-week period
Students should be in the 3rd year of a four-year degree program or in the 4th year of a five-year program. Interns join us during the summer prior to their intended graduation year.
Internships are not available for students who have completed their degree or who will graduate prior to the conclusion of the internship
Desirable Criteria
Experience designing data architecture, APIs and system integration.
Experience large scale distributed data processing, including familiarity with NoSQL databases.
Experience cloud computing, like Azure, AWS.
Proficiency in all aspects of software development cycle.
Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills.
Ability to work using the agile scrum, kanban or agile framework
Self-motivated with an enthusiastic and proactive, passionate approach to learn and inspire
Be an imaginative / creative problem solver
Energetic communicator open to co-create and collaborate on a cross-functional team