Business Data Analytics Intern

Position Summary

The Business Data Analytics Intern will report to the Director of Operations (DO) as a member of the Project Management Office (PMO) and implement various business information reports and visualizations, to include live interactive dashboards. This includes development of data queries to extract information from various business systems.  This is anticipated to be a temporary internship position that may be extended indefinitely or converted to a permanent position based on performance.

BGI develops advanced data visualization and analytics tools for its military aviation customers. This internship will provide an opportunity to interact with experienced engineers and data scientists solving challenging problems in the fields of data extraction and processing, generation of metadata, efficient storage and processing architectures for large (petabyte scale) datasets, UI/UX development, and the application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Job Responsibilities

• Consult with the DO, other company executives, and Project Managers (PMs) to identify business management reports and dashboards that have maximum utility in daily and strategic operations.
• Identify business best practices in business data analytics that would benefit BGI.
• Analyze data available in BGI business systems to assess feasibility of various data analyses.
• Develop data query, processing, and management techniques to support generation of impactful reports and dashboards, and review these with the Vice President of Corporate Technology to establish optimal design approaches.
• Prototype impactful data reports and live, interactive dashboards.
• Collaborate with end-users to optimize reports and dashboards, and implement final, production-ready versions.
• Generate documentation to enable sustainment of all work products.

Required and/or Preferred Qualifications (education, experience, skills)

• Required
  • Minimum Junior level status in a degree program in a relevant business or engineering discipline
  • Experience with widely used data analysis tools for business intelligence, such as PowerBI, Tableau, or similar in a Microsoft Windows environment
  • Ability to work in a collaborative manner with end users, understand their needs, and develop creative and sound solutions, and to accept feedback from end users and use it to improve their product
  • Demonstrated productivity and work efficiency, and ability to investigate and learn new technologies as required
  • Ability to work with company sensitive information and maintain confidentiality
  • Understanding of basic business processes, roles, and responsibilities
  • U.S. citizenship
• Preferred
  • Experience with Microsoft PowerBI
  • Work experience or academic project demonstrating ability to achieve similar objectives