Business Operations Application Development Intern

Help design and build a web-based application to consolidate flight operations information and aircraft asset tracking.

🎯 About the Role

The Business Operations Application Development Intern will help design and build a web-based application that consolidates flight operations information and aircraft asset tracking into a clearer operational view. Translate user needs into tested features, connect approved internal data sources, and help replace fragmented manual tracking with reliable workflows and reporting.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• 🤝 Meet with business users to understand workflows, data definitions, pain points, reporting needs, and the decisions an application needs to support.
• 📝 Translate requirements into user stories, prototypes, database designs, interfaces, and working application features with limited day-to-day direction.
• 💻 Use approved AI coding platforms to accelerate development while reviewing, understanding, testing, and documenting the generated code.
• 📊 Develop and refine web-based forms, workflows, dashboards, filters, calculations, notifications, approvals, and reports for internal business processes.
• 🔗 Build supervised connections to approved internal databases and services using documented SQL queries, views, APIs, or scheduled data processes.
• 🔄 Map and reconcile shared identifiers and fields across source systems so data can be combined accurately and traced to its source.
• ✅ Validate source data, transformation logic, calculations, permissions, and application behavior with business and technical reviewers.
• 🧪 Write unit, integration, and user-acceptance test cases; correct defects; and maintain a clear development backlog.
• 📚 Maintain source control, setup instructions, data dictionaries, interface documentation, release notes, and basic user guidance.

✅ Requirements & Skills

• 🎓 Currently pursuing an associate, bachelor's, or graduate degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical or computer engineering, data science, information systems, or a related field.
• 💻 Foundational programming experience in at least one language such as Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, C#, or Java.
• 🗄️ Basic understanding of relational databases, SQL, APIs, data structures, and software testing.
• 🧑‍💻 Ability to work independently within a limited weekly schedule, ask questions early, and communicate progress and blockers clearly.
• 🗣️ Ability to document technical work and explain design decisions to both technical and business users.
• ✈️ Coursework or interest in aviation, finance, operations research, asset management, logistics, analytics, or workflow design.

💰 Compensation: $12.77 per hour

⏳ Duration: at least 90 days

📍 Location: Bridgewater, VA, United States