Intern - Network Data Analyst

About the Program: The 10-week Zayo Summer Internship Program is designed to cultivate the next generation of telecommunications professionals. Interns will gain meaningful, hands-on experience within a dynamic, fast-paced, and innovative environment. Our goal is to empower, develop, and connect our interns while fostering fresh perspectives and ideas that will drive our organization forward.

Program Details:

• Start Date: June 2025

• Duration: 10 weeks

• Location: Denver-based preferred, based on hiring team’s needs.

Networks Data Analyst Intern

The Networks & Technology Operations Data Analyst Intern role is pivotal in implementing data clean up and quality processes to improve business performance at Zayo. Responsibilities include leveraging data science and machine learning-based programs, and using complex problem solving to develop data solutions. This role requires a blend of technical expertise in statistical and machine learning models, code development, innovative thinking, and strong communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in the operations organization. 

You will play a crucial role in driving data-driven decision-making and innovation, ultimately contributing to the organization's success by applying statistics and ML techniques to data to solve business problems and optimize operations. Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Identify data requirements.

• Help business teams make decisions, answer questions, and solve problems more efficiently and effectively using data-driven, fact-based, and model-based approaches.

• Design, engineer, develop, test, validate, deploy to production, operate, support DS models to solve predictive problems like time to failure of equipment, future resource usage, and resolve inventory discrepancies between multiple systems.

• Design engineer, develop, test, validate and deploy to production, operate, and support DS models to solve complex mulit-variable problems like routing cost analysis, inventory quality analysis between multiple data sets, and field repair time optimization.

• Deliver business value through cost reduction, avoidance, and optimization of process.

• Contribute to Networks data strategy and process improvement efforts with a focus on innovation through data science and machine learning.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to manage project status and any blockers.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a related field

• Experience with Python and SQL, and data querying techniques

• Experience with Excel, Python, R, or data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is a plus

• Experience working in both cloud and on premise computing environments

• Predictive Modeling using ML, Time Series, Ensemble Models

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical work to non-technical audiences

• Proven attention to detail, critical thinking, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a cross-functional team

• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and work under pressure deadlines

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.

• Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for machine learning and MLOps practices

• Experience with working with DS problems in inventory

• Experience on a DS/ML Automation platform like Dataiku

Estimated Pay Range : $23.00-$25.00 USD/hour

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