Data Governance & Quality Analytics, Summer Intern

About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. 

Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.
 

What you will do:

Ancestry is looking for an exceptional, passionate, and highly motivated Data Governance & Quality Analytics, Intern to join our Data Governance & Quality Analytics team. The Data Governance & Quality Analytics team coordinates and facilitates Data Governance & Quality practices at Ancestry by translating policy into action, facilitating collaboration, gathering requirements for data enhancements, guiding teams to (regulatory and policy) compliance, and monitoring data for quality, consistency, and accuracy. We believe data is an asset. As a Data Governance & Quality Analytics Intern on the Data Governance & Quality Analytics team, you may perform/support any combination of the following initiatives depending on your technical strengths:

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration by meeting with various stakeholders and product owners to understand business needs, data flows, and technical details or to foster collaboration and gather requirements for data assets and data documentation (data definitions, data lineage, or data retention needs)

• Organize requirements gathering with teams, translate the business needs and requirements into clear and logical technical requirements, or help create schemas for new data assets

• Support Data Quality efforts by building data quality (data consistency) audits across disparate systems (using AWS Glue DQ Tools)

• Provide engineering support for our data catalog tool Alation

• Lead data curation efforts (inventory and define data in Alation, our data catalog) by helping with working groups or automating processes

• Audit or automate Data Classification (identification of sensitive data) audits to check that sensitive data sets are treated correctly or assist in policy implementation

• Support Data Retention (not keeping data longer than needed) efforts by participating in the creation of retention schedules, process automation, or periodic review of proper implementation.

• Perform various data standardization/classification efforts, such as gathering requirements, documenting, and communicating changes to stakeholders

• Dig into ad hoc data quality issue identification and root cause analysis or participate in End-to-End testing of new data features

• Build reporting in Tableau or other visualization tools to demonstrate results from data quality audits, alerting dashboards, or other Data Quality needs

Who You Are: 

• Obsessed with data, very curious, have an analytical mind and creative ideas

• Working towards earning a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a computer/math/interesting or related field

• You are NOT a data scientist, developer or a bot

• Interested in Data Governance, Data Quality, and Privacy

• Comfortable or skilled with SQL and Python (bonus) or other language(s) 

• Familiar with Tableau or other data visualization tools

• Have experience with cloud computing (like AWS) technology (bonus)

• Skilled in writing and communicating complex information in simple language

Internship Program Details:

• Students must be enrolled in an accredited U.S. educational institution with a graduation date after August 2024.

• Summer 2024 program dates are May 13 – September 6 (Please note we will have three intern onboarding dates to choose from: May 13th, May 28th, and June 10th. Students may offboard every Friday, beginning August 9th. All internships must be wrapped up by September 6th).

• FULLY PAID tempo