Technology Intern

Our 10-week summer intern program provides real-life experience in a collaborative and inclusive environment. Over the course of your internship, you will gain exposure to leaders, cultivate your business knowledge, work on projects that directly impact the business you support, and network in a welcoming atmosphere. Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance offers employees the opportunity to grow and develop personally and professionally in a flexible work environment designed to support individual needs. As you spend the summer with us, learning and growing, you’ll also spend time getting to know your fellow interns during team building exercises. With access to our Business Resource Networks – which includes the Black Employee Network, Young Professionals Network, PRIDE Network – you will increase your own sense of belonging and engage in important networking and development opportunities. Embark as an intern with us this summer and lay the foundation for your future.

Ready to launch your career? Join the Ameriprise Financial internship program where we offer meaningful work in a FORTUNE 500® company within the Financial Services industry!

Ameriprise Financial has a global Technology team delivering technology solutions to support the evolving needs of our clients, advisors, and employees.

This Technology Internship opportunity is for the Columbia Threadneedle Investments Distribution Business and Data Analytics team.

Key Responsibilities

As a Technology intern, you will gain exposure to Ameriprise tools, applications, and software, contribute to team goals, and deliver projects and technology solutions – all while gaining a broad understanding of the Ameriprise Technology organization. At the end of your internship, you will present your work and reflect on your experience to our Technology leadership team.

Responsibilities vary depending on assigned projects(s) and may include:

• Define business requirements
• Develop, document, test, and modify new or existing code
• Develop working knowledge of Ameriprise systems, processes, data, and vendor tools
• Learn and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to the development life cycle
• Learn new programming languages
• Identify opportunities for process improvement/automation
• Participate in Agile team ceremonies

Examples of past intern projects include:

• Automated cloud activity monitoring
• Automated test framework
• Catalog builder
• Customer analytics analysis
• Cloud storage relationship model proof of concept
• Inactive account auditing and decommission
• Automation of server start-up/shutdown and testing
• Build and test web application features
• Create dashboard reporting using PowerBI
• Create new intake and tracking system
• Internal discovery search integration implementation and testing
• SharePoint development

Required Qualifications

• Current Junior at a 4-year university pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Information Science, Information Technology Infrastructure, or related field
• Graduation date of December 2026 or May/June 2027
• Interested in gaining broad experience in Technology

Preferred Qualifications

• High degree of self-motivation with strong integrity and ethics
• Proven organization skills and ability to manage time effectively
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Ability to work and communicate collaboratively and constructively with others
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
• Prior classroom or project experience with software development/programming/coding

The company does not offer corporate undergraduate internships for students with F-1 visas.

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of 2024. With our team more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, we advise, manage and protect assets and income of more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Full timeNon-ExemptHuman CapitalTECH Technology