Federal Data Engineer Intern

$43,920 - $80,520/Yr

IBM - Reston, VA

Part-time - Intern

Reston, VA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

During your internship at IBM, you will have the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and gain professional experience by working on client projects. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to build a compelling portfolio, acquire new skills, gain insights into diverse industries, and embrace novel challenges for your future career. At IBM, we prioritize continuous learning, skill development, and personal growth within a culture of coaching and mentorship. As an intern, you'll experience this culture and could advance to our associate program based on results and performance. You will be exposed to various work experiences, including receiving mentorship from diverse professionals in science engineering and consulting, applying analytical rigor and statistical methods to predict behaviors. You will develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse, integrate, and model data, and evaluate model results contributing to data-driven insights. Additionally, you will assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining your ability to communicate complex findings. As a tech-driven data transformer, you will utilize programming languages like Python to build data pipelines, extracting and transforming data from repositories to consumers. This internship will also provide exposure to cloud platforms, ETL tools, and data integration, expanding your tech toolkit. The positions are anticipated to start in summer 2025, with openings in Reston, VA. Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal.

Responsibilities

• Receive mentorship from diverse professionals in science engineering and consulting applying analytical rigor and statistical methods to predict behaviors.
• Develop skills in writing efficient and reusable programs to cleanse, integrate, and model data.
• Evaluate model results contributing to data-driven insights.
• Assist in conveying analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences, refining communication skills.
• Utilize programming languages like Python to build data pipelines, extracting and transforming data from repositories to consumers.
• Gain exposure to cloud platforms, ETL tools, and data integration.

Requirements

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting - Federal.
• Currently pursuing a quantitative degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong interpersonal skills that enhance collaboration and relationship building, while managing dynamic workloads in an agile environment.
• Have initiative and passion to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills while embracing a growth mindset.
• Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to communicate effectively through active listening.
• Familiarity with one or more scripting languages (Python preferred), or a proven computer science foundation.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrate familiarity or interest in statistical analysis or data mining through previous internships, personal/academic projects, hackathons, and/or publications.
• General familiarity with databases, data-engineering tools (SQL, spark) and cloud platforms (e.g., IBM Cloud, Azure, AWS).
• Experience with NLP/LLM/GenAI is a plus.
• Experience using machine-learning/data science libraries in Python (scikit-learn, SciPy, pandas, PyTorch) is a plus.

Benefits

• Up to 8 paid holidays
• Minimum of 56 hours paid sick time
• IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid family medical leave
• Disability benefits where required by applicable law