Data Engineering Intern (2027)

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook for the latest news.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America. 

Responsibilities

Launch Your Data Engineering Career at Post Consumer Brands

Interested in data, cloud technologies, analytics, or software development? Join Post Consumer Brands as a Data Engineering Intern for a 12-week summer experience designed to provide meaningful work, professional development, and hands-on exposure to enterprise data and technology solutions.

As a Data Engineering Intern, you'll work alongside experienced IT professionals to support the systems and processes that power data-driven decision-making across the organization. You'll gain exposure to modern data platforms, cloud technologies, data warehousing, automation, and analytics while developing technical skills that prepare you for a future career in technology.
You'll also have the opportunity to work with tools and technologies such as Snowflake, Azure Cloud, SQL, API, Python , Linux, enterprise data integration tools and automation platforms while contributing to real business projects.

What You'll Do

Depending on business needs and your interests, you may have opportunities to:

• Support enterprise data and analytics solutions that enable data-driven business decisions.
• Work with databases, cloud technologies, and automation tools to improve data processes and workflows.
• Analyze, document, test, and enhance data engineering solutions.
• Partner with IT and business teams to solve problems and deliver technology-driven improvements.

Potential Project Opportunities

• Analyze and optimize Oracle-based data warehouse environments and ETL processes.
• Support planning and migration efforts to cloud platforms such as Snowflake.
• Develop data ingestion and transformation processes for new data sources.
• Identify and document opportunities to streamline data workflows and retire obsolete processes.
• Participate in user testing, validation, and documentation of data engineering solutions.

Specific projects and assignments will be determined before the internship based on business needs and intern interests.

Why Intern at Post?

• Work on projects that have a real business impact.
• Participate in professional development, networking, and social events.
• Build relationships with leaders, mentors, and fellow interns.
• Gain hands-on experience with cloud technologies, data platforms, and analytics tools.
• Present your work and recommendations to business and technology leaders.
• Develop skills that can help launch a future career with Post Consumer Brands.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Data Analytics, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science or a related field.
• Expected graduation between December 2027 and August 2028.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with others.
• Curious, motivated, and eager to learn new technologies and solve complex problems.
• Interest in data engineering, cloud technologies, analytics, or enterprise systems, with a desire to explore career opportunities with Post Consumer Brands after graduation.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Preferred

• Familiarity with relational databases, SQL, or data management concepts.
• Previous internship, leadership, work, research, or project experience.

Internship Perks

• Competitive pay and starting bonus
• Professional development, networking, and social events
• Exposure to leaders across the organization
• Free cereal, oatmeal, coffee, milk, and snacks

Past interns have gained hands-on experience with enterprise data platforms, contributed to technology modernization efforts, and developed technical skills that helped prepare them for careers in data, analytics, and information technology.

Compensation for this role is $25.00 per hour.

This role will be posted until October 4, 2026.