Summer Associate Internship

Enterprise Platform Engineering Services (EPES) is a region of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) that is responsible for three of Navy Federal Credit Union’s anchor platforms. The EPES Center of Excellence is a team that streamlines and standardizes operations with EPES and with its partners so that there is a high degree of transparency and collaboration among all stakeholders. It is focused on operational governance, collaborative best practices and events, measurement of processes and outcomes, and delivery of special projects as needed by leadership. The roots of the EPES COE team are from the Automation Center of Excellence that was the foundation of citizen development at Navy Federal Credit Union and established the first Center of Excellence for the enterprise. This COE enabled both professional and amateur technologists to leverage standardized tools, training, documentation and procedures to build solutions for business problems together with transparency and governance.

The Summer Associate will help enable new development frameworks with governance, using EPES anchor platforms, for both ETS and partner organizations. This may include the business, and the work will be done with diversity of stakeholders in various organizations across the enterprise. It will be a role that is a lightweight version of technical project management, with some hands-on technical development as needed.

The Summer Associate Program is a 12-week internship program beginning in May 2026 and ending in August 2026. Students will work on impactful projects and meaningful work during their internship. To qualify for this position, applicants must be currently pursuing a degree from an accredited college or university and have an anticipated graduation date of December 2026 or later.

• Enrolled in and successfully pursuing a bachelor degree in computer science, management information systems, artificial intelligence, business, operations or organizational management.
• Highly articulate in written, spoken and audience presentation channels/settings
• Experienced in communications with large audiences
• Hands-on experience in programming (e.g., Java, Python, C++ or others)
• Preferred experience in data manipulation (e.g., databases, ETL tools, etc.)
• Preferred experience in negotiations / conflict resolution situations and or sales
• Preferred experience in business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau or others)

Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 

Among the projects/initiatives that the Summer Associate may work on are:

• Federated development governance model for EPES anchor platforms, to serve its customers
• Project management among governance partner initiatives, including those from partners in ETS, Security, Compliance, Risk, and the business where applicable.
• Collaboratively develop measurement tools and displays including those in PowerBI or other data visualization tools
• Collaboratively draft content for RACIs, guidebooks, playbooks, templates, MS Office documents or other assets that can be utilized by a broad team of stakeholders, developers or leaders
• Support event and broad communications management within EPES
• Support training initiatives for stakeholders and/or customers as needed
• Conduct research on technical best practices to inform governance models
• Hands-on low code / no code development in Platforms such as Pega, MS Power Platform, and/or Service Now as applicable. 
• Support initiatives of the EPES in supporting federated development
• Support gen AI-based initiatives for personal productivity