Data Engineering Intern

at  Business Insider

THIS IS A SIX MONTH, FULL TIME POSITION COMMENCING JANUARY 2025.

Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day.
Our data platform team is one of solving interesting data problems at scale, with a relatively small team and a wide impact.

WHO’S ELIGIBLE?

This opportunity is open to anyone with some foundational programming skills. Whether you’ve learned through formal education, bootcamps or self-study, we want people who have a passion for technology and are eager to learn.
There’s no formal education requirement or age limit. We’re simply looking for candidates who can show us they have what it takes to contribute. A commitment to learning and a desire to work with Business Insider’s technology team are essential.

TO ENSURE THE BEST FIT FOR YOUR SKILLS AND GOALS, PLEASE APPLY ONLY TO THE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY THAT ALIGNS MOST CLOSELY WITH YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS.

We look forward to working with you!
Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.
About Business Insider:
Business Insider is a global journalism company that covers the world of business, tech, innovation, and beyond. With headquarters in New York and offices in San Francisco, London, Belfast, and Singapore, we reach an audience of more than 375 million with storytelling that’s fascinating, unexpected, and always helpful.
As a company, we strive to be inspiring and effective, we value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Our company motto is “get better every day,” which means we value all people. Diversity reflects the different life experiences, identities, and perspectives that make each of us unique. For more information on our DEI mission click here

THE ROLE & TEAM:

As a data engineering intern, you will be working alongside a talented group of data engineers to drive data quality and build new data systems to solve business challenges.
You will have the opportunity to diagnose issues in data pipelines, and propose and implement solutions, both to immediate problems and to longer-term quality detection challenges.
You will also create new data pipelines, from ingestion to modelling, and connect these to our business intelligence layer.
Finally, you will work with the data platform team to build new features in our data activation layer and power the next generation of Business Insider’s core functionality.
This role reports directly to the director of engineering for data and sits on the data platform team. This role will be hybrid with the expectation to be in the Belfast office on average two days per week.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with the data platform team to understand our data warehousing approach and data strategy
• Assist in implementing logical data pipelines and improving data quality
• Participate in the development of new data features and systems
• Communicate effectively with product team and other members of the data group about initiatives and feature improvements