IT Data Engineer – Innovation & Digital Enablement Platform Intern

FirstEnergy at a Glance

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. [SC00]

As a participant in the Co-op/Intern Professional Development Program, you will be cultivating professional skills and performing professional level work. You won’t just be sitting in meetings and shadowing all summer; you’ll be actively contributing and doing the same work as other FirstEnergy employees on your team. You’ll receive on-the-job training and challenging assignments. You will also be assigned a Supervisor, a Coach/Mentor and a dedicated IT Intern Program Coordinator to help you maximize your learning and growth throughout your summer… and beyond. Internships with FirstEnergy are full-time, paid opportunities spanning 14 weeks. You must be actively enrolled in an accredited university or college.

About the IT Data Engineer – Innovation & Digital Enablement Platform Intern 

As a Data Engineer on the Innovation & Digital Enablement Platform team at FirstEnergy you will work on an Agile team that is digitally enabling the company by building data pipelines that drive analytic solutions. These solutions will generate insights from the connected data, enabling the organization to advance the data-driven decision-making capabilities of the enterprise. 

This role requires deep understanding of data architecture, data engineering, data analysis, reporting, and a basic understanding of data science techniques and workflows. The ideal candidate is a skilled in data and software engineering and has experience creating data products supporting analytic solutions. Our digital projects benefit the community by aiding in providing safe, reliable electricity to everyone:

• Customer: create analytics to improve customer satisfaction along the customer journey for a lifetime as they move-in to a residence, pay their bill and move to new residences.


• Transmission & Distribution: develop algorithms to detect asset failures, reduce outages and provide reliable electricity to customers.


• Smart Meter: provide customers with the electric usage they need to make smart decisions about their home as well as reduce threats and theft in the electric system

Examples of possible job duties and responsibilities of an IT Data Engineer Intern: 

• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals


• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps the organization's business to achieve their goals


• Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity


• Advise, consult, mentor and coach other data and analytic professionals on data standards and practices


• Foster a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions


• Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytic data engineering to improve the organization's productivity as a team


• Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.

Applicant Requirements:

• Currently enrolled, full time, in a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited university/college focusing on Computer Science, Computer/Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or other technology related disciplines


• Class Standing – Rising Senior or Rising Junior 


• Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5


• Must have the ability to work without sponsorship (now or in the future)

• Willingness to undertake assignments involving unfamiliar subjects and demonstrate aptitude to learn quickly · Excel at communicating complex ideas and concepts both verbally and through writing


• Agile/Scrum development with DevOps methodologies geared toward rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions


• Development and tuning of ETL processes using any type of ETL tool or architecture


• Creating, analyzing and documenting ER and Dimensional models


• Unix/Linux experience is preferred. Data Engineers maintain Unix files, commands, and scripts, which requires an understanding of Unix operating system concepts


• Kimball methodology to design and develop Enterprise Data Warehouses and Data Marts


• Working with larger datasets (Databricks, Snowflake or similar cloud platform preferred) Prefer 2 or more years of experience with Spark


• Python or other language (preferably in a Data Engineering or Data Science role) Streaming experience with Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics, or similar technology


• Data quality tests within data engineering pipelines


• Designing and/or developing Analytics applications with BI/Analytics tools (such as: Power BI, QlikView, SAS, Tableau)


• Data Observability solutions or concepts


• Enterprise systems and processes (such as: IVR systems, ERP’s, Procurement, Supply Chain, Financials, SOX


• Understanding of Data Contracts or similar process


• Understanding of data replication tools (such as: Informatica Data Replication or Oracle GoldenGate)

Ideal Candidate:

• Highly motivated to work independently, utilizing virtual technologies, and learn quickly


• Must be organized and work well with priority changes


• Willingness to undertake assignments involving unfamiliar subjects


• Demonstrates strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively participate on a team and in remote meetings and conference calls


• Strong attention to detail

Your Resume MUST Include:

• Major/Minor/Degree


• GPA


• Anticipated graduation date 

Resume Suggestions: 

We encourage you to include on your resume courses completed relevant to the position you are applying. Additionally, tell us about school projects where you may have utilized the skills needed for the position. Technology enthusiasts: be sure to describe your tech hobbies and use of technology outside of the classroom on your resume.

To Apply:

All applicants must create an accountIMPORTANT: Information regarding your application or the application process will be sent from a firstenergycorp.com email account. Please check your spam folder or add the firstenergycorp.com domain to your approved contacts or safe senders list.

The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need. This option is not available in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Oregon or Washington at this time.