Position Title: Software Development Intern

Reports To: Director of Software

Internship set to begin January 2023

About DCI:

DCI Consulting Group is a Human Resources (HR) Risk Management company. Our company was built on the principle that "what gets measured, gets done." Our clients understand the critical importance of using data-driven analytics, principles of human science, software solutions, and actionable strategies to build more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. The transformational outcomes help them to maximize workplace successes and relationships, ultimately resulting in their employees reaching their full potential without any obstacles to success.

Our Clients:

DCI's clients represent a cross-section of private sector, federal agency, federal contractor, public sector, and national law firms.

Top Client Initiatives DCI Supports:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) services, compliance, legal defensibility, software solutions, and in-depth consulting in the areas of affirmative action, employee selection and test validation, pay equity analyses, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) audit and litigation support, and regulatory affairs.

About the Job:

We are looking for Software Development Interns to join our Software Division. Our Software Division creates innovative technical solutions to meet customers' compliance and risk management needs. DCI's software portfolio includes web and desktop applications used by DCI team members and external customers.

You are an ideal Software Development Intern if you are excited about supporting DEI initiatives and designing, developing, and maintaining web and desktop applications.

Our small software development team wants to support students who are motivated, want to grow professionally, and have strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

Work involves the designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Assignments, including developing new applications and making updates to existing applications, will be coordinated through a team lead. Work may require direct communication with customers (e.g., internal consultants) for gathering software requirements, providing technical guidance, and facilitating troubleshooting.

Work involves collaborating with team leadership to assess user needs and gathering customer requirements, and promptly informing team leadership of issues or problems that may impact project work. Projects will include practicing industry-standard coding conventions and performing testing during the development of applications.

Required School Enrollment:

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related field with a minimum of 1 year until graduation; OR
• Enrolled in a postgraduate degree program in computer science or related field with 1 year until graduation.

Required General Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, technical research skills (e.g., find, read, summarize, and explain detailed technical documentation) and technical writing skills (e.g., end-user documentation).)
• Ability to meet pre-determined project and task deadlines.
• Ability to research technical problems and suggest improvements.
• Follows instructions for proper implementation.

Preferred Skills:

• Full-stack web development
• Windows Forms application development
• User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design
• Data visualization

• C# and ASP.NET
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery
• React, Angular and Bootstrap
• PHP, MySQL and Yii
• Microsoft Visual Studio and/or Visual Studio Code

• Microsoft Azure database and app services
• Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• OWASP and Microsoft SDL
• Familiarity with common MS Office applications and file formats

DCI offers a dynamic work environment and a wide range of unique and interesting projects for our interns.

DCI Consulting Group is proud of our commitment as an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Our employee culture reflects ethical empowerment, pride, inclusion, and collaboration which showcases the diversity of thought we provide to the clients we serve. We are dedicated to an exceptional employee experience and provide career opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender, age, political affiliation, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you are unable to apply for career opportunities due to an impairment or disability, please contact us at Jobs@dciconsult.com for further assistance.