About the role#
This 10-week Summer Internship Program places you within the Enterprise Technology Services organization at American Express. You will join a team responsible for the company's technology engineering, infrastructure, and data platforms. This role is for students who want to use analytics, financial insight, modeling, or quantitative methods to solve business and technology problems. Depending on your team alignment, you may work on projects involving technology business enablement, data architecture, model governance, or data science.
What you'll do#
- Collect, clean, validate, and organize data from technology, portfolio, financial, operational, architectural, or modeling sources to support analysis and reporting.
- Support data requirements, source-to-target mapping, metadata and lineage documentation, and data quality checks or control validation for assigned projects.
- Analyze datasets to identify trends, anomalies, opportunities, risks, and insights relevant to technology and business decision making.
- Document assumptions, data sources, requirements, mappings, calculations, methodology, metadata, lineage, data quality and control considerations, and analytical outputs to support transparency, traceability, and reproducibility.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a full-time Bachelor’s degree program in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Foundational knowledge of data analytics concepts, including data collection, validation, analysis, visualization, interpretation, and insight generation.
- Foundational understanding of financial analysis, statistics, quantitative analysis, risk analysis, data modeling, or business performance measurement.
- Foundational understanding of Generative AI concepts, responsible use, prompt-based workflows, and human validation of AI-generated outputs.
Location & details#
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- This is a full-time, paid internship.
- Work modality includes remote, on-site, and hybrid options.
- Employment eligibility to work in the United States is required, as visa sponsorship is not provided.
About American Express
American Express is a globally integrated payments company that provides products, insights, and experiences to customers and businesses. Founded in 1850, the firm maintains its headquarters in New York. It employs over 99,000 people and operates as a public company. Its core operations include network services, merchant services, corporate cards, and business travel.
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