2025 Technology Summer Internship – Jersey City, Corporate

Jefferies is a leading, full-service global investment banking and capital markets firm, thanks to a unique culture that attracts driven and entrepreneurial professionals from around the world. Recognized for our insights, drive and high touch service, Jefferies provides investors, companies and governments with a full range of advisory, sales and trading, research, wealth, and asset management services across all products in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Come to Jefferies and you will find a combination of long-term Jefferies partners who turned the firm into what it is today and a fast-growing team of highly talented colleagues who will help lead us to new heights in the future.

About Information Technology

At Jefferies, the IT team is increasingly a source of revenue and competitive advantage for one of the fastest growing investment banking firms in the world. Our team of business technologists enable Jefferies’ sales, trading, research and banking colleagues to solve problems and seize opportunities with more speed and precision than ever before.  We deploy and manage the technology that keeps Jefferies running and our colleagues connected. We develop applications and tools to seamlessly serve Jefferies’ clients. We enhance business outcomes with AI and machine learning tools that uncover actionable insights from millions of data points from around the world.  We believe the strength of Jefferies always has been and always will be its people. And we believe our most important job is deploying technology to help them do their jobs better. In an industry being radically reshaped by technology, our IT team is integrated into every facet of Jefferies’ business.

Work With Us

• For An Opportunity to Explore: At Jefferies, you can go where your talents and interests take you. We want curious and creative people eager to push the boundaries of what they can do and passionate about using technology to solve problems and deliver better outcomes for our business. There are no silos, no lanes to stay in, and we don’ want people managing and executing the same narrow set of tasks each day.
• In A No Corner Office Culture: At Jefferies, you’ll find our business technologists working right alongside traders, researchers investment bankers, and sales teams. That’s how our technologists develop expertise about how trades work, how transactions are cleared, how clients are served, which data really matters, and how and why equity, fixed income and private markets move. When you join Jefferies, you will develop the financial market savvy necessary to build the platforms and the cutting edge applications that keep Jefferies one step ahead of our competitors.
• For A Chance to Unlock the Power of Big Data: Now, and in the years ahead, our businesses technologists will be leading Jefferies’ wholesale move into cloud computing. We will increasingly be building native applications in the cloud and using AI and machine learning tools to translate data into actionable insights, to automate more functions, to make Jefferies operations more secure and client service more seamless.
• A Team of Builders and Problem Solvers: At some larger companies, the IT team’s primary role is maintaining legacy technology systems that are so sprawling and ingrained in the business that it’s difficult to transition to something new. But Jefferies is different. We’re growing fast, breaking into new markets and regions and we’re often building new technology platforms from the ground up. We have people from all across the business coming to us to answer their most mission-critical questions.  Technology is inevitably key to answer these questions. And as a business technologist, it’s up to you to deliver the right solution at exactly the right moment.

Join our Corporate Technology Team

Within Jefferies Information Technology, Corporate Technology supports multiple enterprise level business functions such as Operations, Compliance, Regulatory, Legal, Human Resources, Finance, and Enterprise Data Services. In this group, analysts will have an opportunity to develop technology solutions that support Jefferies’ core business functions which include clearing & settlement of trading activity, enterprise data management and analytics, surveillance of employees and business activities, regulatory inquiries, corporate finance, and human resources. This is an opportunity to learn and contribute to next gen technologies and solutions including AI/ML, Digitalization including robotic process automation, low code/no code tools; cloud adoption, data warehousing, enterprise analytics, industry leading vendor platforms for the benefit of all of Jefferies’ business lines.

Desired Background and Skills:

• Sponsorship for non-U.S. residents may be available
• Pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• Must graduate between December 2025 – June 2026
• General Skills
  • Ability to learn and adapt quickly as you collaborate with others in a fast-paced team-oriented environment
  • Motivated candidates with a desire to pursue a Technology based career in Financial Services upon graduation
  • Strong leadership and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written/verbal communication skills
  • Understanding of Financial and Accounting fundamentals
• Technical Skills
• Programming Knowledge desirable
• Matlab/KDB/SQL/C++/Java - Visual Basic, C# .Net
• Python/pandas
• Angular/Typescript/React
• Bloomberg API knowledge a plus
• Database Knowledge desirable
• Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server
• Data warehouse; Snowflake etc.
• Ability to build intermediate to advanced SQL Queries
• Bonus Technology exposure.
• AWS services; lambda, s3.
• Atlassian Suite or similar; JIRA, bitbucket, Bamboo CI/CD
• API/platform integrations
• Familiarity with basic concepts on AI/ML and GenAI

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The base salary for the Analyst role is $100,000 (pro-rated for the 10-week internship program). The base salary for the Associate role is $120,000 (pro-rated for the 10-week internship program).