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    Data Science is at the heart of decision making and customer treatments in Sky. We provide analytics to inform customer growth strategies, create tooling to drive personalised customer treatments and champion test and learn through experimentation

    You’ll learn from the best in industry get support in bringing your ideas to life. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position on our Data Science graduate programme once you graduate – starting September 2025.

    What you’ll be doing

    On our Data Science internship, you’ll have exposure across the business as you work with our stakeholders to help drive decision making using the power of data and insights. You’ll learn analytical techniques and use cutting edge predictive algorithms to deliver valuable insight to the business. You could be helping to build our next data product, predicting future customer behaviour, or unlocking the value of our content.

    You’ll get exposure to one of our Data Science teams in Sky Data:

    Data Science & Analytics – Consumer – work closely with the commercial teams, building data science models and data products, helping to inform and drive strategic decisions.

    Data Science & Analytics – Content - work with our viewing data to build personalised customer experiences and help them to find more of what they love to watch.

    Data Science & Analytics – Product & Operations – work with the product teams to build new data tools and help to improve the effectiveness and performance of the products our customers use everyday.

    What we’re looking for

    You're a graduate from any degree discipline, or soon will be. You’re likely to have studied maths, statistics, computer science, economics, physics or be able to demonstrate your understanding of the use of data through personal or university projects.  We’re interested in your passion for data and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team. 

    Other skills you may have include:

    • Logical, end to end thinker
    • An enthusiastic problem-solver, with numerical, presentation and IT skills
    • Previous experience in data manipulation using Python, SQL, R, SAS, MATLAB
    • Machine learning - academic experience on Supervised/unsupervised learning, regression, decision trees, random forests, boosting
    • Enjoy task-focused delivery, a fast-paced environment and overcoming challenges 
    • Collaborative, great with people and keen on following recent trends in the market.

    Your application journey  

    Step 1 – Submit your application

    We’ll be asking for your personal details, academic information and anything else that you think would be relevant such as work experience.

    Once your application has been submitted, you’ll be invited to complete our immersive digital assessments. This may land in your junk folder so don’t forget to check it.

    Step 2 – Complete our online digital assessments.

    Complete our online digital assessments. These look at your Sky fit, business fit, and your ability to code. Why not pop onto our dedicated Prep hub to familiarise yourself with some of these digital assessments before completing them.

    You’ll also have the opportunity to practice each of these assessments beforehand, so please read our email instructions carefully. We’ve added some tips to help you along the way.

    The coding test involves basic SQL/Python, so we recommend familiarising yourself with these before starting. We don’t expect to know everything so during this test; you can also refer to websites or books.

    Step 3 – Attend our virtual assessment centre

     For the final stage of your application, we’ll invite you to our virtual assessment centre and give you some tasks to get to know you better. The day will give you a practical insight into what it’s like to work as a Data Scientist and will assess your aptitude for this programme.

    Once you’ve completed your assessment day, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us.

    Reasonable adjustments – if you need us to make any adjustments to help you complete any stage of your application, let us know you submit your application and someone from our Early Careers team will get in touch.

    So why wait?

    Our internship is designed to put you at the centre of the action. You’ll learn, grow and help make the magic of Sky happen. Whatever your background, skills or passions, there’s an opportunity for you to explore. A career at Sky is where better begins.

    #WhereYourCareerJourneyBegins

    Note: Applications are due to close on 19th November 2024, however if there are high volumes of applications, we may close early. The earliest date we will close applications is 12th November 2023.