Northwestern Mutual
Carefully selected from universities across the country, our interns bring distinctive ideas and perspectives to our organization. Our employees are passionate about building our emerging talent and future leaders. After application and initial screening conversation, interns are aligned, interviewed, and hired to a specific team at NM based on their skillsets and interests, providing exposure to real-world business perspectives through hands-on learning and meaningful work. In addition to their day-to-day tasks, interns participate in professional development workshops, senior leadership Q&A’s, volunteer initiatives, networking/social events, and more!
Data Engineering & Analytics Internship
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As a Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer Intern, you will work within the Core Data & Analytics function alongside your hiring manager, mentor, and team to complete tasks critical for Northwestern Mutual’s success. We are here to help you both identify and continue to develop your future career goals and passions.
- Data Engineering- A data engineer intern supports the engineering needs of our data science and analytics teams. This includes exploration, acquisition, cleansing, transformation, understanding, and assembly of data to support various analytics efforts from descriptive to prescriptive. Team members have a solid understanding of the unique data structures needed to solve analytics problems and provide business context and meaning to the data provided.
- Analytics Engineering- An analytics engineer intern acquires, analyzes, combines, synthesizes, and structures data with clear definitions and sources for analytical consumption. You’ll build the understanding of workstream business domains and the meaning of the data in it to be able to accurately identify key and associated data which can be extracted, transformed, and loaded for effective consumption downstream. Interns will support the development of data products using continuous deployment and integration practices.
Bring Your Best! What this role needs. Minimum qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field from an accredited college or university
- Cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher
- Previous work or classroom experience in one or more of the following: SQL, R, Java, Python, Tableau, Power BI, and other data & visualization tools
- Employer immigration sponsorship is not available for this role
Preferred Skills And Proficiencies
- Previous software engineering or data focused internship and/or relevant project experience
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Self-starter who is results-oriented, resourceful, analytical, innovative, and intellectually curious
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability
- High degree of self-motivation, passion, and a drive to learn
- Ability to balance multiple priorities
- SQL skills and working knowledge of ETL processes a plus
- Ability to troubleshoot network, software, and hardware issues
- Experience sourcing, cleansing, and combining datasets from disparate sources
- Passion for problem solving, research, quantitative analysis, and analytical working techniques
- Extremely organized with high attention to details
Next steps
We encourage you to apply! Once your application is reviewed, if selected to move forward, our UR team members will reach out for a call, where we will learn more about you and share internship opportunities aligning to your interests and skillsets and share any next steps of our recruiting process.
Who We Are
Northwestern Mutual has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 160 years through a distinctive planning approach that integrates risk management with wealth accumulation, preservation, and distribution. With more than $290 billion in assets, $30 billion in revenues and more than $1.9 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.6 million clients. People are the power behind Northwestern Mutual, and diversity makes us better. We are committed to reflecting and serving the marketplace. We do so by attracting and improving the engagement of those who bring their outstanding perspectives, ideas, and beliefs. At Northwestern Mutual, people matter. And you’ll be working for a company that’s consistently voted among the “most admired” in the nation. We invite you to explore your career interests with us.
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W e are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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FIND YOUR FUTURE
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
To apply for this job please visit careers.northwesternmutual.com.