2025 Data & Analytics Undergraduate Internship Program
About This Role
Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description
Emerging Talent Programs offer unique opportunities to launch your professional career in an environment that is structured to support your individual growth, while also helping you build an extensive network to expand your business knowledge and career options. As part of our Emerging Talent Development and Internship Programs, you can be part of building and innovating the products and services that help our millions of consumers build their brighter financial futures. At Discover we know our people are the key to our success, and our Emerging Talent Programs provide structure and support while immersing you in the business with a focus on solving real business challenges. Be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. We are all about people and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work.
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers, and which is consistently awarded for both. We are all about people and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
What You’ll Do
Discover’s Data and Analytics Undergraduate Program offers exciting internship opportunities for highly motivated individuals who are interested in exploring a host of disciplines within Discover. Participants will work on challenging initiatives in a sought-after work environment and culture. Individuals selected will be matched to projects across the enterprise, in the many different business areas/disciplines within Discover business units. They will be challenged to exercise and expand their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, working alongside proven leaders on projects and strategic initiatives aligned with Discover's high-priority goals.
Participants can expect:
- An internship aimed at aligning personal talents with business initiatives
- Challenging and impactful work assignments that support Discover’s key priorities and objectives
- A team of resources to assist with training and career development, including dedicated program managers, experienced performance managers and knowledgeable mentors
- Real time and consistent feedback
- Interaction with the key stakeholders and senior leadership through both projects and program events
- Enhance their abilities to lead projects, make decisions, problem solve and think creatively
- Group activities, including networking events and volunteer activities
- Opportunities to establish lasting career connections with fellow interns
- An opportunity to be evaluated for a full-time position within our development programs
- Opportunities for paid housing or housing stipend depending on eligibility
Opportunities may exist in:
Marketing, credit risk management, fraud mitigation, AML/BSA, customer service and infrastructure development to drive value through intelligent decisioning processes as well as insights.
How You’ll Do It
- Apply techniques such as customer segmentation, optimization, test & design of experiments and predictive analytics to solve business problems. Use financial impact analysis to assess the effectiveness of proposed solution/strategy.
- Establish and maintain effective performance tracking; identify improvement opportunities, form hypotheses, proposes, design and implement tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.
- Manage multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management and business partners.
- Develop and automate reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs. Facilitate implementation of work product and ensure accuracy.
- Consistently follow standard work processes and documentation requirements. Recommend improvement to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work.
- Continuously improve technical and leadership skills through training and development.
- Design and develop data ingestion frameworks, real time processing solutions, and data processing and transformation frameworks.
- Deploy application codes and analytical models. Provide support for deployed data applications and analytical models.
Qualifications You’ll Need
Basic Qualifications:
- Current enrollment in an accredited 4-year college or university
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Bonus Points if You Have:
- A graduation date between December 2025 - August 2026
- Enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, or STEM related field.
- Ability in learning and improving programming skills for business analysis, strong programming (SQL, Python) skills is a plus
- Demonstrated project management skills, including ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and follow through on completion of projects
- Strong interest in using data for business insight, experience in modeling is a plus
- Strong desire of learning and willingness to acquire needed knowledge and skills
- Positive attitude, willingness to collaborate, strong work ethic, and demonstrated personal initiative