Data Analyst Intern

NetApp, Inc.•Durham, NC

67d

About The Position

NetApp’s Enterprise Architecture, Solutions & Intelligence (EASI) organization drives enterprise-wide transformation by integrating architecture leadership, solution strategy, and data-driven intelligence. They collaborate with IT and business teams to modernize platforms, standardize metrics, and deliver reliable analytics, aiming to convert data into actionable decisions using AI, Data, and Analytics. As a Data Analyst Intern within EASI, you will be instrumental in providing post-sales organizations with curated, governed data to facilitate scalable decision-making. This role involves coordinating with various business functions to understand their data requirements, translating these into functional designs, developing data models and semantic views, and contributing to advanced analytics experiences like AI Agents and conversational analytics. The position combines stakeholder engagement, analytical thinking, and practical data enablement.

Requirements

Must be enrolled in an educational or professional program through summer 2026 or later.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with multiple post-sales business functions (e.g., Customer Success, Support, Professional Services) to understand goals, data needs, and reporting workflows.
Participate in requirements workshops, clarify ambiguous requests, and drive alignment on KPI definitions and decision use-cases.
Communicate progress, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Convert business requirements into clear functional designs and delivery-ready artifacts, including: KPI/metric definitions, calculation logic, and business rules; Dashboard/report requirements (filters, drill paths, usability needs); Security and access requirements (e.g., role/region-based visibility); Data refresh needs, data lineage assumptions, and validation plans; Acceptance criteria and test scenarios.
Partner with data engineering / analytics engineering to confirm feasibility, reduce rework, and ensure scalable implementation.
Create and maintain data models aligned to post-sales processes and analytics best practices (fact/dimension modeling, conformed dimensions where applicable).
Create semantic views over underlying data models (Snowflake/Power BI semantic models / curated dataset layer) to enable consistent self-service reporting, including: Standardized measures/KPIs; Business-friendly naming conventions, hierarchies, and metadata; Reusable definitions and “single source of truth” datasets; Performance considerations and model usability patterns.
Support data quality and metric integrity through reconciliation, anomaly checks, and root-cause analysis of reporting discrepancies.
Enable business functions with trusted datasets, semantic models, and documentation so they can build dashboards and visualizations in Power BI.
Provide guidance on best practices for using shared datasets, consistent KPI interpretation, and governance expectations.
Support adoption by creating how-to documentation and lightweight enablement sessions as needed.
Contribute to AI Agent and conversational analytics initiatives that allow stakeholders to ask questions in natural language and receive governed, explainable answers.
Help define intents and analytic use-cases, identify the right datasets/metrics to ground responses, and document guardrails (approved definitions, exclusions, confidence checks).
Test and validate AI outputs for accuracy, consistency with metric definitions, and usefulness for business decisions.
Work in an agile delivery model (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and maintain clear project documentation (requirements, designs, definitions, and change notes).
Present insights, designs, and outcomes in a structured and actionable way.