Data Science Platform Internship 2024

Type: Intern
Region: London

AXA XL recognizes digital, data and information assets are critical for the business, both in terms of managing risk and enabling new business opportunities. Data Science and Applied AI assets should not only be high quality, but also drive a sustained competitive advantage and delivering a superior experience to our internal, external customers and improving efficiency. Our Innovation, Data and Analytics (IDA) function is focused on driving innovation by optimizing how we leverage digital, data and AI to drive strategy and differentiate ourselves from the competition.

As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and strengthen our digital, AI capabilities, we are seeking a Data Science Platform Intern. In this role, you will work under guidance of the senior platform steward and engineers to apply engineering best practice and latest technology to new and already deployed data science applications and platforms.

Our tech stack continues to evolve: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, PowerBI, Collibra, Databricks, MLflow, RStudio, Harness CI/CD, OpenShift, GitHub, JIRA.

DISCOVER your opportunity

As an intern, you will work closely with our experienced data scientists and engineers to support the development and maintenance of our data science platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Own personal development – a degree of guidance and support will be provided, but interns must demonstrate independent learning and skills and knowledge progress to be offered a full-time role.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to design, develop, and maintain data analysis and modelling tools and workflows.
• Help to identify and troubleshoot issues with data quality, data governance, data pipelines, and data processing infrastructure.
• Help users trouble-shoot, find right tooling or data. Assign or re-assign users to relevant platform permissions, offerings based on their needs. Conduct user training and one to one support.

Training will be provided to interns to develop in areas of cloud administration, platform engineering, data engineering, machine learning / mlops and AI solution engineering.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Graduated or enrolled in a part-time degree program in a technical or analytical field or can demonstrate knowledge / experience in area of computing (work in technical support, completed bootcamp etc.)
• History of high academic achievement in 80%+ percentile of student population.
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills, problem resolution ownership and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desirable, relevant experience:

• Experience with providing customer service e.g., in a call centre, retail, or digital helpdesk.
• Prior academic or work experience with any of: data analysis, databases, scripting and programming.

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business ? property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Inclusion & Diversity

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another ? and our business ? to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter