Data Analytics Engineer Intern — AI-Driven Data Pipelines

Zions Bancorporation; Midvale (UT); On-site; USD 36,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Data & Analytics team is seeking a Data Analytics Engineering Intern for the Summer program in Utah. The internship runs from mid May to mid August and focuses on supporting data acquisition, processing, and analytics for financial reporting.

The intern will assist the Enterprise Data Warehouse function with data from Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and other repositories, driving improvements in data quality, observability, and analytics productivity while gaining

Qualifications

• Working toward a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Enjoy analyzing, modeling, and interpreting large and complex datasets to solve business problems.
• Experience with relational databases, data warehousing concepts, and writing SQL queries.
• Exposure to source control systems such as Git and software development best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, automated testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines.
• Exposure to modern data transformation and analytics engineering tools (e.g., dbt) is a plus.
• Interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) frameworks.
• Experience or coursework involving API integrations, workflow automation, or cloud-based data platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Apply business analytics to define, identify, and obtain source data from various sources such as Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and other enterprise platforms; analyze, map, transform, and validate data to support Financial Data Management reporting.
• Leverage AI-enabled technologies to enhance data discovery, documentation, metadata management, and analytical productivity. Evaluate opportunities to develop and utilize Model Context Protocol (MCP) services and integrations to provide secure, reusable access to enterprise data and business knowledge.
• Develop and automate data quality validations, reconciliation processes, and business rule checks to improve confidence in enterprise data assets and reporting outcomes.
• Contribute to CI/CD processes by integrating automated data validations, testing, and deployment controls into enterprise data workflows to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Assist in monitoring and improving data observability, data quality, lineage, and pipeline performance to proactively identify and address data issues.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Git

CI/CD

dbt

AI interest

API integrations

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems/Data Analytics/CS/Engineering/related

Tools

dbt

Git

Job description

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Data & Analytics team is seeking a Data Analytics Engineering Intern for the Summer program in Utah. The internship runs from mid May to mid August and focuses on supporting data acquisition, processing, and analytics for financial reporting.

The intern will assist the Enterprise Data Warehouse function with data from Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and other repositories, driving improvements in data quality, observability, and analytics productivity while gaining