Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

As part of the central bank of the United States, the Boston Fed works to promote sound growth and financial stability in New England and the nation. We contribute to communities, the region, and the nation by conducting economic research, participating in monetary policymaking, supervising certain financial institutions, providing financial services and payments, playing a leadership role in the payments industry, and supporting economic well-being in communities through a variety of efforts.

This job is eligible for a hybrid schedule with some on-site work expected.

Job Summary:

The data & analytics intern will work with the Data & Analytics team at the Boston Fed. The intern will be responsible for analyzing and transforming data into meaningful and valuable input for management decision making. At the end of the internship, there will be an opportunity to present the work conducted over the summer to Boston Fed management.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Integrates data from one or more source systems into data repositories that are optimized for reporting and analytics
• Learn to manage, manipulate, interpret, and analyze both internal and external datasets through a full data ingestion pipeline process
• Design controls to ensure data integrity, consistency, and quality
• Maintain documentation of analytics conducted, processes created, and assumptions made in analyses
• With oversight, present in both verbal and written form to provide stakeholders with data analytics that gives meaning, insight, and purpose to information

Other Accountabilities:

Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervision:

This position is not required to directly supervise others.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Pursuing major in relevant quantitative field, such as Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics
• Experience using SQL, R and/or Python, or similar programming and analytics applications
• Proficient in MS Office products: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Experience in Big Data ecosystem or Hadoop, AWS Athena, Cloudera Impala, HDFS, or similar programming applications is a plus, but not required
• Experience with Linux based operating systems and scripting tools is a plus, but not required
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques is a plus, but not required
• Knowledge of version control software, such as Git, is a plus, but not required

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Temporary

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

No

Job Category

Internship

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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