The Coca-Cola Company is a soft drink manufacturer & distributor that makes a variety of soft drinks, including diet coke and regular coke. The Data Governance Intern role will provide a unique opportunity to learn key components of the data governance lifecycle while supporting critical project work and enhancing data quality. Interns will gain hands-on experience in data governance processes and tools, contributing to enterprise capabilities and strategic business initiatives.
Responsibilities
Define new data standards that will enable new capabilities within a domain or function or help to enhance the quality of an existing process
Deliver enhancements to data governance tools by participating in all scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos).
Author new global reference data as a critical BAU (business as usual) activity that drives enterprise operations
Build new data quality rules to drive focus on continuous improvement to the quality of data used in critical enterprise processes
Directly support cross-domain strategic business initiatives
Identify opportunities to implement machine learning and/or artificial intelligence solutions as a part of data governance processes and tools to deliver increased efficiency and/or quality
Identify, remove and/or escalate risks, roadblocks, and cross-team dependencies that are unresolvable by the team and interfere with the team’s ability to deliver commitments.
Partner with other Data Governance & Data Operations (DG&DO) colleagues that will provide direct support on business initiatives that require evolving master data processes, architecture, and metrics.
Partner with master and reference data leads across all domains to ensure DG&DO team business stakeholder needs are considered when designing future solutions and enhancements
Partner with Data Stewards to resolve any data quality concerns impacting DG&DO team business stakeholder systems and/or processes
Develop subject master expertise regarding how core master/reference data is structured and stored in book of record systems and then consumed downstream into core processes and systems
Collaborate with business and IT leads on project execution, including testing of new solutions
Build and maintain strong relationships with the overall DG&DO team and its various business stakeholders
Qualification
Required
Student working towards Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in an accredited undergraduate or graduate program
Currently pursuing a degree in a related major with a final graduation date no earlier than December 2025
Strong interest in pursuing data management/analysis/engineering as a career
Experience with data analysis on large data sets, identifying patterns and ensuring quality
Ability to manage projects scope and timeline
Strategic thinking skills, capable of managing complex and fast-moving projects
Advanced organization and prioritization skills
Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the enterprise ecosystem to help overcome roadblocks
Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
Balancing immediate and short-term needs and delivering results
Ability to manage through ambiguity as well as lead change
Ability to work across multiple cultures
Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills to effectively influence upward and downward across the organization
Preferred
Experience with data/metadata management and related technologies a plus
Experience with the following technology: Project Management Tools (JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, SF Bello, MS Project), ERP (e.g. SAP, Workday), MS Office365 (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)
Experience in process improvement, design, development, and deployment
Strong analytical skills, utilizing SQL; Python or R a plus
Understanding of Agile Principles and how they’re applied in workplace culture
A fundamental understanding of data governance best practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data management
Benefits
The Coca-Cola Company is a soft drink manufacturer & distributor that makes a variety of soft drinks, including diet coke and regular coke.
