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Herndon, VA

Internship

Onsite

$20/hr - $22/hr

Intern

Deltek is a provider of software and information solutions for project-based businesses. The Data Science Intern will support customer health and CRM data analysis, semantic modeling, and stakeholder-driven analytical initiatives. The role involves transforming raw data into insights through data preparation, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, visualization, and documentation.

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Responsibilities

Meet directly with business stakeholders to elicit requirements, ask clarifying questions, and translate loosely defined business problems into well-scoped analytical questions
Support the team in collecting, cleaning, and analyzing customer health and CRM datasets to answer those business questions
Structure data-driven approaches to solve business problems, checking back in with stakeholders as understanding evolves
Perform exploratory data analysis to identify patterns, anomalies, and insights in large datasets from multiple sources
Create features from structured and unstructured data, applying feature engineering techniques to enhance model performance
Build visualizations and narratives that make complex analysis accessible to non-technical audiences
Document methodologies, assumptions, and limitations thoroughly to ensure reproducibility and knowledge transfer

Qualification

Required

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field
Comfort initiating conversations with business users to gather requirements and clarify ambiguous asks; this role requires more direct stakeholder interaction than a typical technical internship
Understanding of major data modeling paradigms (3NF, star schema, etc.) and database technology concepts
Proficiency in Python
SQL skills, with experience querying relational databases
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

Basic understanding of machine learning concepts (regression, classification, clustering, time series, feature engineering) and comfort discussing tradeoffs and real-world applications, even without production ML experience
Exposure to dbt
Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses
Prior coursework or project experience with CRM, customer analytics, or churn/health-scoring data
Experience presenting analysis to non-technical stakeholders, or other experience directly gathering requirements from business users (client-facing roles, consulting, product work, etc.)

Benefits

Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including incentive compensation and equity.
Employees have access to healthcare benefits
A 401(k) plan and company match
Paid vacation time and holidays
Well-living programs
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Tuition reimbursement

Deltek is an enterprise software and information solutions provider for professional services firms and government contractors. It is a sub-organization of Roper Technologies.

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