Data & Analytics Intern

About Costco Wholesale

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

About the Data & Analytics Intern Role

The Costco Digital Services Division is inviting students currently enrolled in an IT or related undergraduate or graduate program at a college or university to participate in a twelve-week paid internship program during 2026. Interns will work within specific areas in Costco’s Information Systems Division. Interns will attend presentations given by various members of Executive Management from IT and other areas of the Company. Interns will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. Housing is not provided. The program runs mid June to early September and is located in Issaquah, WA. No out of state work allowed. All interns will adhere to the CDS hybrid work model of three days onsite and two days remote.

As a member of the BI & Analytics team, you will have the opportunity to work with business stakeholders and IT mentors to develop business intelligence (BI) solutions – integrating data sets, queries, reports, dashboards (BI Engineering) using PowerBI and InfoRiver applications. This role also has the potential to create and maintain data pipeline architecture while working with large complex data sets (Data Engineering). Success requires the ability to identify, design, and implement strong BI solutions that optimize functionality, performance and usability. Strong knowledge of modern tools for data visualization and data extraction (such as PBI, InfoRiver, Synapse, and IICS), data transformation, and data modeling will be important skills for the job. The successful candidate will be someone who enjoys creating BI Solutions, data pipelines and understanding data usage.

Your Responsibilities

• Works with stakeholders to identify solutions that support their business requirements.
• Works independently and within a team environment.
• Pays attention to detail, self motivated with the ability to follow instructions and completes assignments on time.
• Learns and applies new concepts, processes, and tools.
• Takes initiative to solve problems and multi-tasks by prioritizing projects and deadlines.
• Communicates effectively with team members, stakeholders, and all levels of management.
• Tells stories through modern visualization techniques and presents them to stakeholders.
• Performs advanced data analysis to support any area of Costco’s business.
• Builds and trains data models to solve business questions and aid decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• Enthusiasm for helping Costco use data effectively to evaluate and improve business insights.
• Experience providing visualizations and storytelling for business decision-making.
• Comfortable working in both business and technical environments.
• Strong logical thinking skills with the ability to think creatively in order to envision relationships between data.
• Resourceful, self-motivated, and able to meet responsibilities with minimal direct supervision.
• Accountable team player with a constructive attitude, problem-solving, and customer service mindset.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Possess good organizational, time, and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize, and stay well organized.
• Must be maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• Must be students currently enrolled in an IT undergraduate or graduate program at a community college, college or university.

Recommended Qualifications

• Enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program with a focus on Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a similar discipline.
• Costco warehouse, E-commerce, or retail experience is a plus.
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Key skills/competency

• Data Visualization
• Business Intelligence
• Data Engineering
• PowerBI
• InfoRiver
• SQL
• Data Modeling
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication