Data Engineer Intern
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Summit Utilities seeks a Data Engineer Intern to support enterprise data pipelines and integration solutions. The intern works under the guidance of senior engineers, analysts, and database administrators while contributing to active pipeline work and building practical skills. The role is designed for currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students and is based in an office in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, Arkansas.
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This job was posted by https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov/jobs/4883494\ Summit Utilities\ \ Join our growing team and discover why Summit Utilities, Inc. continues to earn national and regional recognition as an employer of choice. Our recognitions include Best Places to Work in Maine (20192025); Best Places to Work in Arkansas (2020, 2023, 2025); Best Places to Work in Oklahoma (20222025); Best Places to Work in Missouri (2023 and 2026); Best Places to Work in Colorado (2025); Forbes Americas Best Small Employers (2023); and, most recently, Proud and Purposeful Employer (2026). Summit is a growing natural gas utility providing safe, reliable, and clean burning natural gas service to homes and businesses in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Being part of the Summit team means embracing excellence and innovation, committing to safety each and every day, and doing all that we can to serve each other, our customers, and the communities where we live. We aim to bring warmth and energy to everything we do. We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer Intern based in one of our offices in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, Arkansas. POSITION SUMMARY Summit Utilities is seeking a Data Engineer Intern to support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of enterprise data pipelines and integration solutions. This internship is designed for currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students who want hands-on experience building real data solutions in an enterprise-scale environment. Working under the guidance of senior engineers, analysts, and database administrators, the Data Engineer Intern contributes to active pipeline and integration work while building practical skills in SQL, scripting, and modern data integration practices. Ideal candidates have coursework, project, or prior internship experience with SQL and a programming language such as Python, along with demonstrated curiosity, attention to detail, and a strong desire to learn. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Assist senior engineers with building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines that ingest, transform, and stage data from source systems into enterprise data repositories. - Write, troubleshoot, and optimize SQL queries and views under the guidance of experienced engineers. - Help implement data quality checks, logging, and documentation that keep pipelines reliable and understandable. - Participate in standups, sprint planning, code reviews, and team source control practices, and shadow support ticket and on-call response. - Complete an assigned project or deliverable and present the results to the data and analytics team. EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE - Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; undergraduate candidates at rising junior or senior standing preferred - Coursework, academic or research projects, or prior internship experience involving databases, data analysis, or software development. - Experience writing SQL queries against a relational database. - Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python; exposure to cloud data platforms or version control tools such as Git is a plus. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES Foundational understanding of relational databases and core data concepts, including the ability\ \ \ \ Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.\ \ PI287967312
How this job compares
Set against the 6,048 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Arkansas median$99–208K/yr33 salary ranges
- US median$60–74/hr265 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 45 open Data Engineer jobs in Arkansas and 6,048 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Arkansas
- Accenture9 open
- PwC7 open
- Summit Utilities (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (5,284 postings).
- Education
- 2,353 of the 6,048 open Data Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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