CDS Intern - Functional Analyst - Data Business Operations
About The Position
Costco Digital Services is offering students currently enrolled in an IT or related undergraduate or graduate program a paid, twelve-week internship during 2027. The internship is based in Issaquah, Washington, runs from mid-June to early September, and requires interns to work in the office five days per week. Out-of-state work is not allowed, and interns are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses; housing is not provided. Interns attend presentations by Executive Management and, at the end of the program, prepare and present a summary of their experience to management and peers. The Data Business Operations team supports internal Data & Analytics projects by understanding user requirements, conducting technical system and data analysis, and developing reporting with tools such as Google Sheets, Google Canvas, and Looker Studio. The Functional Analyst Intern contributes to these initiatives by analyzing cross-functional business requirements and process flows, identifying process gaps and improvement opportunities, helping translate requirements into functional and technical designs, and supporting testing and reporting work. The intern is classified as an hourly temporary employee for the duration of the program. The internship ends after a maximum of twelve weeks if the intern is not selected for a regular position. During the program, the intern may be asked to participate in the normal interview process for a level 1 position; if selected, employment status will be converted to match the position offered.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in an IT or related undergraduate or graduate program at a community college, college, or university.
- Maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
- Ability to move quickly between different tasks as needed.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
- Interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with team members across levels.
- Proactive and adaptable mindset with a strong sense of urgency.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Responsible, conscientious, and committed to high-quality work.
- Familiarity with corporate IT policies, procedures, and standards.
- Basic understanding of IT strategy and its application to IT Management Platform solutions.
- Appreciation of information technology’s role in providing competitive business advantages.
- Developing documentation and presentation skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good organizational, time-management, and project-management skills, including the ability to prioritize and stay organized.
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency in the Advanced Google AI suite, including Google Canvas and Conversational AI.
- Proficiency in data visualization and reporting tools such as Data Studio, Tableau, or Power BI.
- Experience using the ServiceNow Platform to create data visualizations, dashboards, metrics, and trends.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Responsibilities
- Assist with analyzing and delivering cross-functional business requirements and process flows.
- Support gap analyses between current and target processes and help identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Learn to elicit and translate requirements into functional designs in collaboration with teammates.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams on technical specifications and review design documents.
- Help translate functional designs into technical designs across teams.
- Support the design, development, and execution of unit, integration, and system testing protocols.
- Assist with systems and data analysis on applications to understand functional design requirements.
- Assist in defining and executing application and interface configurations.
- Learn team application concepts and tool-suite functionality.
- Work with stakeholders to identify solutions that support business requirements.
- Help identify and resolve problems by evaluating options and supporting solution implementation.
- Participate in development of deployment and release work-plan tasks within a project phase.
- Support planning, design, and production of deliverables for training phases.
- Learn and support adherence to established standards, best practices, governance, and patterns.
- Assist with the change management process to support smooth transitions and alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Gather data, track trend metrics, and analyze results to identify continuous service improvement opportunities.
- Assist in creating and developing reporting dashboards for management and executives using tools such as Gemini AI, Google Canvas, Google Sheets, and Data Studio.
- Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and all levels of management; work independently and as part of a team.
- Prioritize projects and deadlines, complete assignments on time, and learn and apply new concepts, processes, and tools.
Benefits
- Paid time off.
- Medical, dental, vision, hearing aid, pharmacy, and behavioral health benefits.
- Employee assistance program.
- Health care reimbursement account.
- Dependent care assistance plan.
- Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance.
- AD&D insurance.
- Life insurance.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan for eligible employees.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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