UDA Business Analyst - Students Seeking Opportunities

Exxon Mobil; Calgary; On-site; CAD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial is seeking a Business Analyst Student to join the Upstream Digital Accelerator team in Calgary. You will collaborate with operators, engineers, data scientists, and software developers to translate business needs into practical digital solutions and project plans.

The role emphasizes data analysis, AI-enabled tooling, and stakeholder engagement, with opportunities to define requirements, map processes, and prototype technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in business analytics, CS, data science, or related program.
• Available for a work term starting January or May 2027.
• Must be returning to full-time studies after the term.
• Unofficial transcript must be submitted with your application.

Responsibilities

• Understand operational challenges, user needs, and desired business outcomes by collaborating with stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, data requirements, and actionable work items.
• Support the development of business cases, value assessments, project plans, delivery roadmaps, and implementation recommendations.
• Help define project scope, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to prioritize work based on business value and feasibility.
• Collect, clean, analyze, and visualize operational and business data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Use analytics, business intelligence, statistical methods, and AI-enabled tools to support data-driven decisions.
• Assist with the design, development, testing, and prototyping of analytics, automation, AI, optimization, or software solutions.
• Develop and document process models, data models, analytical approaches, and solution workflows.
• Evaluate and help integrate tools and technologies that improve workflows and performance.
• Track work items, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies with updates.
• Support meetings, workshops, interviews, demonstrations, and training for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Education

University program in STEM/Analytics

Tools

Git

GitHub

VS Code

Jupyter Notebook

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UDA Business Analyst - Students Seeking Opportunities

Location: Calgary, AB, CA, T2C 5N1

Company Name: Imperial

At Imperial, we work every day to responsibly develop Canada’s energy resources - applying technology and innovation to supply affordable, accessible and reliable energy while reducing emissions. Imperial recognizes the important role we can play by advancing climate solutions within our operations and by providing lower life-cycle emission products to our customers. This effort is powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by a pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our upstream, downstream and chemical, and corporate divisions is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower life-cycle emission products to our customers.

Imperial honours diverse backgrounds so we can be a place where people can bring their full selves to work, no matter their identity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or ability.

At Imperial, we want you to come for the position and stay for the career. As an integrated company, we are uniquely positioned to offer you a wide range of career prospects and growth opportunities through the course of your career with us. We invite you to bring your ideas and help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.

Come be part of the Upstream and Global Operations Departments at Imperial which has more than 140 year history in Canada. Our offices are located across Canada.

What role you will play in our team

The Business Analyst Student will work as part of an integrated team within the Upstream Digital Accelerator, helping deliver digital innovation and solve operational challenges across our mining and in situ oil sands operations. The student will collaborate with site operators, engineers, business stakeholders, data scientists, software developers, and management to understand business needs and translate them into practical digital solutions. Depending on the project, the student may help define requirements, map business processes, analyze data, develop business cases and project plans, coordinate activities, and design or prototype technology solutions. Projects may involve artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, mathematical optimization, analytics, robotics, automation, enterprise data platforms, and software development. This role combines teamwork and stakeholder engagement with independent analysis and hands-on technical work. The ideal candidate is curious, collaborative, comfortable working through ambiguity, and interested in learning how technology can improve industrial operations.

What you will do

• Work with business stakeholders, site personnel, engineers, and technical teams to understand operational challenges, user needs, and desired business outcomes.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, data requirements, and actionable work items.
• Support the development of business cases, value assessments, project plans, delivery roadmaps, and implementation recommendations.
• Help define project scope, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to prioritize work based on business value, operational impact, technical feasibility, risk, and effort.
• Collect, clean, analyze, and visualize operational and business data to identify trends, opportunities, root causes, and potential improvements.
• Use analytics, business intelligence, statistical methods, and AI-enabled tools to support data-driven decisions.
• Assist with the design, development, testing, and prototyping of analytics, automation, AI, optimization, or software solutions.
• Develop and document process models, data models, analytical approaches, and solution workflows.
• Evaluate and help integrate tools and technologies that improve workflows, productivity, decision-making, or operational performance.
• Track work items, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies, and provide clear progress updates.
• Participate in solution testing, including validating requirements, analyzing results, documenting issues, and confirming that solutions meet user needs.
• Help monitor the performance, reliability, adoption, and business value of delivered products or prototypes.
• Create clear documentation, presentations, demonstrations, and training materials for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support meetings, workshops, interviews, demonstrations, and working sessions involving business and technical teams.
• Follow company requirements for safety, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, records management, and responsible AI.

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in business analytics, computer science, data science, software engineering, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, management information systems, or a related University program.
• University student available for a work term beginning in January or May 2027
• Currently enrolled in a university program and returning to full-time studies after the work term
• To be considered for employment, your most recent unofficial transcript(s) must be submitted with your application
• Able to gather business/stakeholder needs and turn them into clear requirements, user stories, process maps, or action plans.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Experience with Python and SQL for data analysis, automation, development, or projects.
• Basic understanding of: Statistics, Data visualization, Process/data modeling, Software requirements, Testing and quality assurance
• Familiarity with project management and Agile practices (planning, prioritization, risk tracking, reporting).
• Experience using development tools such as Git, GitHub, VS Code, or Jupyter Notebook.
• Interest in AI, machine learning, analytics, optimization, automation, or software development.
• Able to document and present technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Curious, adaptable, organized, and comfortable learning new technologies.
• Willing to travel occasionally and follow site safety requirements.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience with cloud and enterprise data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure.
• Experience with BI and visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau.
• Knowledge of Generative