Integra is a boutique economic consulting and forensic analytics firm that works with government agencies and private entities to identify financial fraud. Integra is hiring quantitatively-skilled students/graduates with data science, data analytics, or software development experience who are interested in translating their academic interests into the real-world applications. Our team leverages a variety of data science/analytics techniques to extract meaningful insights from large datasets. As an intern you will develop tools used to collect large data sets, automate data pipelines, and perform cloud-based analytics. You will additionally gain experience at all stages of the data lifecycle in a professional environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain existing tools/scripts for retrieving, ingesting, and processing data in a cloud environment
- Build data pipelines and transform data to support usage in econometric analysis
- Work with our team to identify needs, design and implement solutions, and test results
- Apply appropriate data mining, analytics, or NLP techniques to verify integrity of and glean information from large datasets
- Document processes and present results to our team
Required Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in a PhD or Master's degree program in Data Science, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Math, or other quantitative fields
- Experience scripting/programming in Python (3.1x)
- Experience designing, implementing, or interfacing with SQL databases
- Experience with data cleaning and preparation
- Experience interfacing with REST APIs
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing / storage technologies
- Knowledge of statistical methods and machine learning techniques
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong background in SQL and Python as applied to data science, analysis, engineering, or warehousing tasks
- Experience with cloud based data warehousing tools (e.g., Google BigQuery, AlloyDB, CloudSQL, Amazon Redshift / Aurora, Azure Data Warehouse/Synapse, Snowflake)
- Experience using Github for version control
- At least one Python based project available for our team to review
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
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What We Do
We are a financial and economic consulting firm that exists to restore integrity to the financial system through forensic data analytics.
Integra has the academic background and the industry expertise to identify and investigate fraud, including potential misreporting by investment banks and ratings agencies, insider trading, crypto scams and fraud, and market manipulation.
Our team of academic experts, data scientists, and forensic analysts works with government agencies and law firms in the following areas:
1. Expert Testimony
We have a broad range of expertise in analyzing fraud in complex matters. Areas of expertise include securities manipulation, mortgage-backed securities, structured finance, real estate, credit ratings, crypto assets, blockchain, and insider trading.
2. Forensic Data Analysis
We have extensive experience applying advanced analytics to investigate fraud, including predictive analysis and econometric modeling. Our expertise with big data means we can extract, transform and analyze varied data to provide defensible, empirical findings.
3. Litigation support
We provide start-to-end litigation support including expert testimony. Our eDiscovery services include: data extraction and processing, data culling, intelligent search and data mining.
