Thursday, February 24, 2011

2011 Discover Financial Services Business Technology (BT) Intern Program

If you’re in your Junior or Senior year, graduating after June 1st  but before May 31st 2012 and are seeking real-world challenges in a technology-rich environment, Discover Financial Services offers the perfect internship program for you!  Ranked in the Top 100 for eight consecutive year in IDG’s Computerworld “Best Places to Work” in IT, and recognized by InformationWeek 500 as a top innovative organization that effectively uses information technology to create measurable business results, you can be confident that an internship with Discover will provide you with a great foundation in knowledge and relationships to begin a successful career in IT.

Our 12-16 week paid summer internship is located at our Lake Park, Utah center where we will expose you to real business challenges.  You’ll be assigned to a team to solve a business problem, applying your classroom knowledge and programming background.

Each position is unique but all internship positions offer real world experience developing and supporting business solutions with technology.  Throughout our program, internship opportunities will focus on true development work as well as technical and business analysis.

You will also develop important relationships.  As our goal is to hire the majority of our interns as full-time Business Technology employees at graduation, we look for individuals who are prepared to live the Discover Values of Doing the Right Thing, Innovation, Simplicity, Collaboration, Volunteerism, Enthusiasm, and Respect.

Ideal Candidates for the Business Technology Internship Program:

We seek individuals in a Computer Science or similar curriculum and will complete their Junior year course study in June 2011. 

The ideal candidate would have both a technical and business mindset gained through class room and life experiences.

Knowledge of the following would be helpful in making the most of your internship

Platforms: Windows XP and UNIX
Databases: Oracle, DB2, My SQL
Programming languages/application software: Java, OO, Java Beans, JSP, JCL, SQL, HTML, Websphere and Eclipse. 
Principles: Object Oriented Design, Project Development Life Cycle and Database Design

HOW TO APPLY
Please click on the link below or copy it to your web browser and follow the prompts to formally apply.

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