Summer 2027 Intern: Data Engineering

Live Oak Bank; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 26,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Live Oak Bank is seeking a Data Engineer Intern for a 10-week Summer Internship program at our headquarters in Wilmington, NC. This onsite role offers hands-on experience building data pipelines and analytics platforms within a scaled agile team.

You''ll work with Finance, Compliance, Lending, and Deposits to deliver high-quality data sources, learn ETL/ELT patterns, and help document designs and standards that empower product teams with trusted data.

Qualifications

• 2–6 months hands-on data modeling and transformation experience.
• 2–6 months experience with AWS-based data warehouse tech like Redshift, Databricks, Snowflake.
• 2–6 months experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Glue.
• Basic understanding of event-driven/streaming workflows with Kafka or Spark.
• Ability to work in a team and follow Agile/scrum processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and create data ingestion patterns, pipelines, and standards for self-service analytics across bank domains.
• Hands-on contributor building data products from source to target ingestion and data marts.
• Build role-based access controls and data platform management processes for growth and scalability.
• Refine and prioritize work to support analytics tools and processes.
• Document designs, standards, and user guides for Product teams.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

AWS Redshift

Databricks

Snowflake

Airflow

AWS Glue

Kafka

Spark

Git

Job description

About Us

Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country. Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high‑yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard‑earned money. At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well‑being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream. Ready to make an impact? We’re looking for an onsite intern to join our team for the 10‑week Summer Internship program (May 17 - July 23, 2027) at our headquarters in Wilmington, NC. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, September 28th.

How This Role impacts Live Oak and its People

TheData Engineer Intern willbe a key player in the design and implementation of Live Oak’s next generation data warehouse and analytics platforms, building data pipelines, and other core platform capabilities that inform and enable decision making with trusted,high‑quality data at Live Oak. Theideal candidate is a self‑motived teammate with good problem solving and communication skills with the ability to adapt and learn quickly, provide results with limited direction, and choose the best possible operational decisions.

What You’ll Do at Live Oak

You’ll work on a cross‑functional scrum team within a scaled agile environment to build out data products that enables our partner teams to analyze, aggregate, and make informed decisions from the highest quality data. Your customers are Finance, Compliance, Lending, and Deposits teams, and your products are high quality, timely data sources and aggregations that empower others to continuously understand and build insights via a self‑service model. Below are some of the activities you would be learning to perform on a regular basis.

• Define and create data ingestion patterns, pipelines, and standards that can support self‑service analytics users across all bank domains (deposits, loans, checking, etc)


• Be a hands‑on contributor that can build data products as needed, from source to target ingestion, transformative data models and data marts that provide high quality, trusted data for self‑service consumers.


• Build role‑based access controls and fundamental Data Platform management processes that enable growth and scalability within the business teams at the bank.


• Participate in continually refining and prioritizing the work necessary to support our analytics tools and processes.


• Help establish and document designs, standards, and user guides to help Product teams consume the data you create.

How You’ll Do It

You’ll build data that matters. We make data available to help small businesses and entrepreneurs get the capital and financial services they need to succeed and support their local communities. Your team decides the best technical approach and commitments, not your manager. Collaborate with super‑smart people to buildand deploynextgenerationdata solutions, as we enable capabilities to transform the outdated financial banking system. Design, develop, and deliver high‑quality, performant and scalable data and analytics solutions suitable to high‑impact technical challenges Create and evolve Live Oak’s data processing pipelines, including ETL/ELT jobs, events processing, and job monitoring and alerting Partner with engineers, data scientists, and senior leadership to define and refine our data analytics architecture and technology choices Engage in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle in a cross‑functional team setting

Preferred Experience

• 2-6 months of hands‑on experience with data modeling and transformation, using tools like SQL, DBT, ascend.io, or Informatica with source code control in Gitlab/Bitbucket


• 2-6 months of experience working with AWS-based data warehouse technologies like Redshift, Databricks, Snowflake


• 2-6 months of experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Glue


• Basic understanding of event‑driven and/or streaming workflows with tools like Kafka and Spark


• Ability to work in a team environment and not take yourself too seriously.


• Basic understanding of the Agile methodology and their role within the scrum process.

Our Values

• Dedication: Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Bank’s mission and core values, exemplified through a strong work ethic, adaptability and pride in your work.


• Ownership: Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems, while maintaining a high degree of quality.


• Respect: Treat everyone with courtesy, politeness, and kindness.


• Innovation: Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.


• Teamwork: Foster collaboration, accountability, and trust with others and understand that together, we do more

Live Oak Bank is an AFFIRMATIVE ACTION and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. We consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status or disability. Equal access to programs, service and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify human resources at [e-mail]. EEO is the Law.

Compensation & Benefits

The base pay range for this position is $19.77 - $32.12 per hour. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long‑term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy. A candidate’s salary is determined by several factors including travel, relevant work experience or skills and expertise. Please note that we provide at least the minimum requirement of paid sick leave to our employees who reside in states that require employer-paid sick leave, including but not limited to Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

More than just a job, a career at Live Oak is an opportunity to mold the future of the banking industry. Live Oak Bank would not be the top SBA 7(a) and USDA lender in the country without our people. We focus on hiring folks who are dedicated to living our values, every single day. Together, we’re on a mission to be America’s small business bank. At Live Oak we never lose sight of focusing on the wellbeing of our folks. We believe our employees are the heart of our company and drive our commitment to our customers. As part of the Live Oak team, you’ll have the chance to shape the next chapter of banking while supporting the backbone of our nation – small businesses.