Acima · 13 hours ago
Data Governance and Data Engineering Intern
Plano, TX
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$22/hr - $22/hrUpbound Group, Inc. is a technology and data-driven leader in accessible financial solutions, and they are seeking a Data Governance and Data Engineering Intern for their Summer 2026 Internship program. The intern will work on data quality, data catalog, and data lineage initiatives, collaborating with leadership to address real-world data challenges using tools like Python, SQL, and Snowflake.
CreditFinanceLeasing
Responsibilities
Help design and implement enterprise-grade data quality monitoring, including deterministic validation rules, reconciliation and balance checks, and analytical techniques such as statistical profiling and anomaly detection, to ensure accurate and trustworthy financial data
Map complex data flows to ensure transparency and traceability across the organization
Assist in examining and improving pipelines built on Fivetran, Python, and Snowflake
Gain professional experience working with Python, GitHub, agentic AI, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL
Work alongside senior leaders in data science, data engineering, data analytics, finance, marketing, sales, and operations to understand the cost of poor data quality, and how data governance drives impactful outcomes in the financial services industry
Qualification
Required
Some experience with a relational database like PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DuckDB, MariaDB, Snowflake, or MySQL
Experience writing SQL
Some experience coding with Python
You've already played with and built something useful with AI
Preferred
Bonus if you have worked with any datasets in the millions of rows
You will learn on the job, of course, but if you are comfortable with and can explain CTEs, subqueries, EXISTS, inner and outer and lateral joins, MINUS/INTERSECT/EXCEPT/UNION, GROUP BY, HAVING, and windowing clauses, this will really set you ahead of other applicants
Extra points if you've used advanced models to augment coding activities
Company
Acima
Acima develops credit financing platform.
Founded in 2013
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$125MKey Investors
Comvest Credit Partners
2020-12-20Acquired
2018-05-02Debt Financing· $125M
2015-10-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Jared Dinerstein
Vice President of AI Innovation
Reed Farnsworth
VP of Operations
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