Hybrid Data Engineer Intern — Fintech Analytics & Pipelines

NinjaHoldings

Chicago, Northern (IL, KY)

Hybrid

USD 28,000 - 41,000

Full time

12 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement
Downtown Chicago HQ
Mentorship from senior engineers

Job summary

NinjaHoldings in Chicago is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to gain hands-on experience supporting our data infrastructure. You will work with senior data engineers and collaborate with teams across Engineering, BI, and Data Science to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and scalable.

The internship runs May through August 2027 with a hybrid setup at our downtown Chicago HQ (in-office 2x/week). Local candidates or those able to relocate are welcome; relocation assistance is not provided.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a CS/Data Eng degree; strong SQL fundamentals.
  • Understanding of relational databases and SQL basics.
  • Familiarity with data warehousing concepts (row vs column storage).
  • Interest in ELT processes and data modeling.
  • Strong problem solving and attention to detail.
  • Clear communication and eagerness to learn from senior team members.

Responsibilities

  • Learn how to manage and optimize relational databases (Postgres, MS SQL Server).
  • Assist in building and monitoring data pipelines for BI and Data Science teams.
  • Support the setup and scaling of our data warehouse stack (Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT).
  • Contribute to performance tuning tasks at query, table, and database levels.
  • Help establish monitoring and alerting for production data systems.
  • Gain hands-on experience with ELT data pipelines and best practices.
  • Learn how to work with data in cloud environments like AWS.
  • Write automated warehouse data model tests.

Skills

SQL basics
Data modeling
ELT concepts
Problem solving
Communication
Learning mindset

Education

CS / Data Eng degree candidate

Tools

Python
Ruby
Snowflake
DBT
Fivetran
Terraform

Job description

NinjaHoldings in Chicago is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to gain hands-on experience supporting our data infrastructure. You will work with senior data engineers and collaborate with teams across Engineering, BI, and Data Science to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and scalable.

The internship runs May through August 2027 with a hybrid setup at our downtown Chicago HQ (in-office 2x/week). Local candidates or those able to relocate are welcome; relocation assistance is not provided.

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