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The Company: GIA is the world's foremost authority in gemology. GIA is a global organization with headquarters located in Carlsbad, CA. GIA in Carlsbad boasts a 17-acre ocean view campus that accommodates approximately 800 of its 3,400 total employees worldwide. It offers many competitive health and commuter benefits that promote the well-being of its employees as well as that of the environment.

The Location: This position is located in Las Vegas, Nevada

Job Overview:

The Solutions Analyst Intern works at the intersection of research, technology, and delivery, applying many of the core skills commonly associated with business analyst roles. In this position, you'll gain hands-on experience helping transform innovative research ideas into clearly defined, high-quality technical solutions ready for execution.

You'll support the full lifecycle of research-driven initiatives by clarifying requirements, validating assumptions, reviewing system behavior, and ensuring outputs meet quality standards before release. Acting as a key alignment checkpoint, you'll help keep ideas, documentation, development work, and final deliverables moving forward in sync. Working closely with research leaders, product and project managers, architects, and engineers, you'll contribute to analysis, documentation, and planning that keeps projects well-scoped and aligned with business, technical, and operational goals. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, asking thoughtful questions, and connecting strategy to execution. By bridging research, analytical thinking, quality validation, and development planning, you'll help reduce rework, improve delivery readiness, and support the transition from concept to real-world impact

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze and review technical, analytical, and documentation artifacts to ensure requirements traceability, accuracy, and completeness
• Validate system logic, data outputs, calculations, and workflows through structured testing against defined acceptance criteria
• Create and maintain test cases, validation checklists, and quality standards to support solution readiness
• Identify, document, and track defects, requirement gaps, and inconsistencies; collaborate with delivery teams to drive resolution
• Support business and technical requirements definition, including functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with research, product, engineering, architecture, and project management teams to refine scope, assumptions, and expected system behavior
• Help maintain solution documentation such as system overviews, UI flows, and high-level architecture artifacts
• Ensure deliverables are release ready by assisting with validating completeness, traceability, and standards compliance
• Provide analytical and coordination support, including tracking milestones, risks, dependencies, and key decisions

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong attention to detail with an interest in understanding how systems, data, and processes work

• Basic ability to follow technical logic, workflows, and requirements, and ask questions when something is unclear

• Comfortable working with structured data and written documentation

• Clear written and verbal communication skills

• Organized and able to document work clearly and consistently

• Comfortable collaborating with both technical and non-technical team members in a learning environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

• Familiarity or schoolwork related to business analysis or systems analyst are highly valued

• Experience using common tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, or similar is expected; exposure to Jira, Confluence, Visio, or diagramming tools is a plus

• Interest in learning Agile or Waterfall project methods; prior academic exposure is helpful but not required

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
• Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request, to enable them to perform the essential functions of their job, as required by law.
• GIA provides employees with a safe work environment through the provision of internal safety policies and procedures, safety awareness and training, and appropriate safety equipment as recommended and/or prescribed by governing regulatory agencies.
• Employee is required to comply with all safety policies, procedures, directives, and/or warnings

Pay Range: $24/hr.

An Equal Opportunity Employer All employment decisions are made without regard to unlawful considerations of race, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Disclaimer: This job description indicates in general terms, the type and level of work performed as well as the typical responsibilities of employees in this classification and it may be changed by management at any time. Other duties may also apply. Nothing in this job description changes the at-will employment relationship existing between the Company and its employees.