What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025 Data Quality Intern position at Darden?
Company Overview
Darden’s family of restaurants features some of the most recognizable and successful brands in full-service dining — Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, The Capital Grille, Chuy's, Seasons 52, Eddie V's and Bahama Breeze. We own and operate more than 2,100 restaurants and are proud to employ 195,000 team members. Together, we create memorable experiences for more than 420 million guests annually in hundreds of communities across North America.
At our Restaurant Support Center (RSC), approximately 1,000 of our team members — working in a variety of functions — provide the support our restaurant teams need to create those memorable experiences.
Whether you’re supporting a single brand or our portfolio of differentiated brands, you’ll find the work challenging, our results-oriented culture energizing, and our passion for serving others contagious.
Summary
The Internship Experience
Individuals are responsible to provide their own housing and reliable transportation to/from work during the internship experience.
Dress And Appearance Guidelines
RSC employees are welcome to wear casual attire every day of the week. This includes jeans, capris, T-shirts, and athletic shoes. Business casual attire may be required for certain occasions.
About Data Analytics Intern
The Data Quality (Intern), is responsible for ingesting data, transforming data, and leveraging data to create critical business insights. They are expected to develop strong relationships with their teammates and business partners across the enterprise. This position will work with technology teams responsible for data integration, business intelligence, monitoring, database/cloud data administration and overall architecture.
Roles And Responsibilities
Darden’s family of restaurants features some of the most recognizable and successful brands in full-service dining — Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, The Capital Grille, Chuy's, Seasons 52, Eddie V's and Bahama Breeze. We own and operate more than 2,100 restaurants and are proud to employ 195,000 team members. Together, we create memorable experiences for more than 420 million guests annually in hundreds of communities across North America.
At our Restaurant Support Center (RSC), approximately 1,000 of our team members — working in a variety of functions — provide the support our restaurant teams need to create those memorable experiences.
Whether you’re supporting a single brand or our portfolio of differentiated brands, you’ll find the work challenging, our results-oriented culture energizing, and our passion for serving others contagious.
Summary
The Internship Experience
- A full-time (40 hours/ week) 10-week program placement during the summer at Darden’s RSC in Orlando, FL
- May 12, 2025, through July 18, 2025
- Interns are paid $20/hour
- Benefits include paid time for holidays (Memorial Day and Independence Day) and dining discounts
- Meaningful work experience that will add dimension to your experience and your resume
- Work evaluation at conclusion of the program to assess your strengths as well as any areas of development
- Mentorship from seasoned professionals
- Opportunities to interact with our executives and key leaders within our company
- The possibility of future career opportunities within the company
Individuals are responsible to provide their own housing and reliable transportation to/from work during the internship experience.
Dress And Appearance Guidelines
RSC employees are welcome to wear casual attire every day of the week. This includes jeans, capris, T-shirts, and athletic shoes. Business casual attire may be required for certain occasions.
About Data Analytics Intern
The Data Quality (Intern), is responsible for ingesting data, transforming data, and leveraging data to create critical business insights. They are expected to develop strong relationships with their teammates and business partners across the enterprise. This position will work with technology teams responsible for data integration, business intelligence, monitoring, database/cloud data administration and overall architecture.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Configure new data sources using the existing data pipelines
- Monitor pipeline performance and data ingestion
- Leverage experience in monitoring data pipelines to assist in advanced alerting techniques aimed at providing an early warning for suspect data quality issues
- Learn and leverage new tools such as Snowflake SQL, Spark SQL, Kusto, DevOps, Azure Data Factory, Data Flow, and Data Bricks to assist in development, generation of automated testing and automated data validation
- Leverage tools like Power BI and Databricks to generate a Dashboard that collects and displays Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Develop data cleansing routines to obfuscate data, dedupe data or automate the generation of valid test data sets. Assist in validation of the resulting data sets
- Automate recording of data lineage and metadata to enable business users in deriving accurate insights
- Exposure to data base technologies and data integration
- Understanding of data modelling techniques such as relational databases, star and snowflake schema
- Familiarity with Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Previous exposure to Python, Java or C# is highly desired
- Pursuing BS/BA in Business Administration, Information Technology, or Computer Science with anticipated graduation within 2 semesters
- Strong facilitation, observational and interviewing skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal context, providing level of detail appropriate for the audience
- Strong time management, prioritization and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks at once
- Ability to work with limited supervision and under the direction of the Team Lead
- Ability to assess risk and escalate issues appropriately
- Ability to partner with QA to review test cases and work closely with them to learn the different restaurant systems
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate and command an audience
- Restaurant experience a plus
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