IT -Software Engineer Intern

The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) is one of the Nation’s preeminent Housing Finance Agencies focused on financing affordable housing. The Software Engineer Intern will collaborate with various teams to implement changes, maintain documentation, and assist in troubleshooting application issues.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Software Development team, Business Analysts, Service Desk Analysts and InfrastructureOps teams to implement changes based on requirements
• Successfully unit test and work with the team to ensure the changes are deployed to non-production and production environment after successful QA and UAT cycles are completed
• Maintain and create technical documentation
• Work with team to setup and maintain automated code analysis, unit testing and CICD deployments
• Work with product owners and IT departments to deliver requirements
• Assists in troubleshooting and resolving basic application issues, detailing the solutions for future reference
• Utilize JIRA to complete tasks and collaborate with the Business Analysts
• Create and maintain development KPIs and metrics to measure the quality and productivity of the team
• Present the background and results of one of your projects to the team
• Performs other duties assigned

Skills

• Ability to research, perform analysis, draw conclusions, and make recommendations
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Experience with Microsoft web technologies including C#
• SQL Server development experience
• Understanding of Agile methodology
• Students entering their Junior or Senior year of study in an IT Software Development or engineering-related major
• Must have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA
• Previous internship or related work experience

Benefits

• Paid Internship
• You will receive on-the-job training from industry experts
• Participate in workshops to gain insight on key departments at the Authority
• Participate in IHDA’s Mentorship Program
• Attend outings to connect with fellow interns

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