Data Engineer Intern: Build Real Data Pipelines

Summit Utilities, Inc.; Fayetteville (AR); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

Summit Utilities, Inc. invites motivated students to apply for a Data Engineer Intern role based in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, AR. You will gain hands-on experience building enterprise data pipelines, writing SQL, and using Python under senior engineers’ guidance.

You’ll contribute to data integration, quality checks, and documentation while learning modern cloud data engineering practices. This internship emphasizes learning, collaboration, and delivering practical data solutions

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior engineers with building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines that ingest, transform, and stage data from source systems into enterprise data repositories.
• Write, troubleshoot, and optimize SQL queries and views under guidance of experienced engineers.
• Help implement data quality checks, logging, and documentation for reliable pipelines.
• Participate in standups, sprint planning, code reviews, and team source control practices; shadow support tickets and on‑call responses.
• Complete an assigned project or deliverable and present results to the data and analytics team.

Skills

SQL

Databases basics

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT concepts

Cloud data tools

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

BSc/MSc in CS/IS/Data Analytics

Tools

Python

Git

Job description

Summit Utilities, Inc. invites motivated students to apply for a Data Engineer Intern role based in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, AR. You will gain hands-on experience building enterprise data pipelines, writing SQL, and using Python under senior engineers’ guidance.

You’ll contribute to data integration, quality checks, and documentation while learning modern cloud data engineering practices. This internship emphasizes learning, collaboration, and delivering practical data solutions