Intern - ONT/Data Engineering - Data Science, Summer (May to Sept/Oct 2025)

Job Summary

SGX (May - Sept/Oct 2025) Summer Internship Programme

We are Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. We also operate a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).  

We are committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging our roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, we aim to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, we provide listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. We are the world's most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. In foreign exchange, we are Asia's leading marketplace and most comprehensive service provider for global FX over-the-counter and futures participants. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, we are globally recognised for our risk management and clearing capabilities. 

Be a part of this fast-paced world where your contributions count. SGX offers you the unique experience of gaining insights into the Exchange business and the finance value chain. You will be immersed in the respective specialist functions – at SGX, we believe that our interns are involved in real-time work from Day 1. 

This internship programme is on a full-time basis. We invite you to realise your potential with us!

Note: Leave of Absence (LOA) may be required to take on the internship.

Data Engineering - Data Science

Brief Overview:

As one of the key innovation drivers of the SGX Group, the Data Engineering team is not only involved in new and exciting emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud, but also has the responsibility to design the data architecture and infrastructure, manage the integrity of the data, develop data dictionaries and models to govern the data, and also to build data pipelines, advanced analytics and visualization that will transform and imbue a data-driven culture.

Learning Objectives:

The Data Engineering team is looking for a dynamic intern with a passion for new technologies to challenge him/herself and others with expanded out-of-the-box thinking. The selected intern will learn about SGX’s suite of securities and derivatives products, work with large amounts of data generated by the exchange’s platforms, get involved in the build of ETL pipelines and platform enhancements.

Job Description:

• Identify business problems that could be addressed through data science/ data analysis.
• Propose and build solutions to address business needs.
• Learn to use kdb+ for extracting data from the data warehouse to be used by the model. 
• Build end-to-end production pipelines linking data, models and visualization\GUI to expose developed capabilities for business end users.

Knowledge and Skills requirements:

• Highly driven, pro-active and a strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication skills in English
• Familiar with AI/ML Modelling
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Familiarity with GenAI models is an advantage
• Good understanding of financial markets is preferred