Data Governance Engineering Intern careers in Yahoo at Dulles, VA
Website Yahoo
This Job listing For Year 2022 is about Yahoo in Dulles, VA
About the job
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
What You Will Be Doing
The Data Governance organization drives value for Yahoo by providing high-quality, well-governed data to the business for advanced analytics and decision making. This is a Summer 2022 internship for students currently enrolled in a degree program. This role is responsible for working alongside Data Stewards and Data Analytics teams to aide in managing and governing the core internal and external analytical data for the organization. This person will gain an understanding for best practices and documentation of our governed data sources and metadata. This role will collaborate across the Central Data Organization (CDO) and Yahoo to improve processes that will increase data availability and interpretation. This person will provide support in creating business insights by ensuring our data is compliant, timely, accurate, complete, and most importantly, ‘fit for purpose’ for our customers’ use cases. This is a highly dynamic position that requires a great degree of flexibility, analytic agility and the ability to rapidly adapt to changing business requirements/needs, new technologies, and data sources. This role requires close integration and partnership with the business and requires both business and technical acumen in order to output the best solutions.
This will include the following:
- Uses best practices, with coaching, to provide support in the governance of business data to ensure it is compliant, consistent, accurate, available, accessible and understood.
- Contributes to the common vision by assisting in elevating the organization’s commitment to clean, reliable, and accurate customer and business data
- Troubleshoot data quality issues, with support and coaching – identifying root cause/system and documentation/communication of resolution
- Engage in the ongoing and detailed evaluation and monitoring of data quality, integrity, accuracy and consistency, the identification of anomalies and discrepancies, and the contribution of expertise to understand the root cause and implement corrective measures
- Collaborates with the team in order to improve the effectiveness of business decisions through the use of data definitions and data-quality metrics
- Innovates on projects by using best practices and techniques or tools where appropriate
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Experience with SQL and non-relational data systems
- Currently pursuing a degree in a field such as business, math, data architecture, data science, or library science
- Proactive self-starter with a desire to make an impact
- Passion for analytical problem solving and critical thinking
- Experience with gathering or creating metadata
- Quick learner through formal and self-guided education
- Knowledge of data governance and data management concepts, practices and procedures
- Courage to challenge the status quo and take smart risks
- Ability to communicate effectively with business partners in a clear and professional manner, verbally and written
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.
US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
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Company: Yahoo
Vacancy Type: Full-time · Internship
Job Location: Dulles, VA
Application Deadline: N/A
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