Freelance Data Visualization Intern Jobs in Illinois

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At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe
Consulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.

As you grow, you'll also begin to take ownership of client relationships, contribute to account strategy, and support the delivery of high-impact work. Developing a sense of account leadership, including understanding client needs, ensuring delivery excellence, and building trusted partnerships, is part of what sets successful consultants apart.

Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence.

As a Data Analytics Developer in Crowe's Consulting Practice, your role will focus on designing and implementing data visualization and reporting solutions that empower stakeholders to make informed, data-driven decisions. You will interpret complex data requests, analyze business needs, and retrieve data using SQL or other query tools, while leveraging platforms like Power BI, Tableau, and similar technologies to translate insights into intuitive visual stories.

At Crowe, we encourage you to take initiative, experiment with new data tools, and deliver solutions that create measurable value for our clients. You'll play a key role in shaping analytics-driven strategies that support operational performance and enhance visibility across the business. Crowe fosters a collaborative, insight-driven culture where your analytical mindset and creativity will have immediate and lasting impact.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test and maintain data pipelines, data integration, ETL processes and data management delivery within a global data lake and data warehouse environment within the Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions.

• Participate in the use of Agile practices to elicit and refine requirements through an iterative process of planning, defining acceptance criteria, prioritizing, developing and delivering enterprise data asset solutions.

• Develop robust, scalable solutions for collecting & analyzing large data sets.

• Design logical data models and their physical schema design.

• Continuously deliver and improve prioritized data assets that enable the growth of analytics, reporting and visualization solutions.

• Identify project risks and impediments, notify leadership, and pro-actively work with other members of the team to complete assigned tasks as defined by project scope and timeliness.

• Identify data quality issues and support data governance initiative by participating in necessary activities including data profiling.3-5 years of experience Has a passion for data, reporting and analytics

Skills & Requirements:

• Experience with Data Visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or Qlikview

• Experience with SQL (Microsoft, Oracle, PL-SQL, MySQL etc.), including the creation of complex views, stored procedures, functions and/or packages

• Ability to analyze complex data structures

• Understanding of dimension modelling and data warehouse concepts.

• Understanding of ETL concepts and familiar with one of the ETL tools such as SSIS, Talend, Informatica etc.

• Experience with the end users and business teams on analytics needs

• High comfort level working on multiple simultaneous assignments and dealing with assignment priority changes

Education:

Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in:

• Computer Science

• Informatics, with development experience

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $27.00 - $42.00 per hour.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
Crowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.

The Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world.* As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide.

*As of July 2026.
Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

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We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role's responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.

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