Data Governance Eng Intern — Summer 2027 (Paid)

re-zoo-me; Midvale, Northern (UT, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Zions Bancorporation's EDGE team seeks a Data Governance Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. You will support central governance platforms, contribute to data quality automation, and help align business glossaries with technical catalog mappings as part of a broader enterprise data strategy.

You'll work within a fast-paced ET&O environment, learning metadata management, data lineage, and security controls while collaborating across teams to deliver reliable, well-documented governance solutions.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's in CS, IS, SWE, data analytics, or related technical field.
• Relational databases knowledge; experience writing SQL queries.
• Analytical thinker with problem-solving and data quality focus.
• Programming or scripting (preferably Python) for automation or REST APIs.
• Understanding of metadata, data quality, data warehouses, or security controls.
• Familiarity with Git, Azure DevOps, or CI/CD concepts.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Enable Governance Platforms: support lifecycle and deployment of central data governance platforms (e.g., metadata catalogs, data discovery, and data lineage environments).
• Build data quality solutions: design, develop, and automate data quality validations, reconciliation rules, and data observability monitors to ensure confidence in critical enterprise data.
• Support terminology frameworks: manage business glossary and data catalog mappings to align terms with technical attributes.
• Drive classification & protection: assist automated data discovery, classification, and scanning of data environments to strengthen data rights and protection.
• Integrate & document metadata: evaluate and implement automated documentation pipelines, mapping data lineage and structural metadata using relational databases and programmatic APIs.

Skills

Relational Databases/SQL

Analytical Thinking

Python Automation

REST APIs

Data Concepts

DevOps/CI-CD Basics

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IS/Software/Data Analytics

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Zions Bancorporation's EDGE team seeks a Data Governance Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. You will support central governance platforms, contribute to data quality automation, and help align business glossaries with technical catalog mappings as part of a broader enterprise data strategy.

You'll work within a fast-paced ET&O environment, learning metadata management, data lineage, and security controls while collaborating across teams to deliver reliable, well-documented governance solutions.