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Data Science Analyst – Remote 

Springer Capital is a real estate investment firm based in Chicago, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Springer engages in Capital Advisory for APAC Private Equity and Asset Management making financial investments in real estate and other sectors in US markets. 

Springer seeks an Data Science Analyst to join the Technology side of the company. The internship can be onsite in Shanghai or conducted remotely. The start date of the internship is flexible.  

Job Highlights 

As an intern for the data analysis team, you will be focusing on researching and developing tools and workflow that automate some parts of our business automation.  As business automation is important throughout the firm, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with teams across Springer. 

What you will do as an intern: 

Collect data from various sources, including databases, APIs, and web scraping tools. 

Clean and process raw data to ensure it is accurate and consistent. 

Analyze data to extract insights using computational tools, such as Excel, SQL, and Python. 

Communicate insights in a clear and concise manner with the manager along your progress.  

Implement solutions based on insights you discovered to improve business processes or solve problems. 

Our commitment to your development: 

Overarching and detailed training materials before interns hit the desk 

Interns will have group calls with the director and supervisors regularly for up-to-date and constructive feedback 

Greater leadership and responsibilities will be given to interns based on work quality 

Who we are looking for: 

Strong experience using Excel.  

Passionate about analyzing data.  

Experience (preferred) with data analysis.  

Research and problem-solving abilities 

About Springer:   

Springer Capital focuses on raising capital and solving capital issues in the real estate private equity market. We have experience raising capital for clients across the entire capital spectrum. Client relationships are a top priority for Springer. We establish long-term relationships with investors and lenders as well as have active dialogues with private equities, family offices, pension funds, infrastructure funds, and independent sponsors across Asia. With Springer’s expertise in the housing market, we ensure all parties are aligned in land acquisitions, development, improvements, sales, and lease-up. 

Technical and legal Information 

The internship enrollment period is flexible. The expected hours are 20 per week for ~3 months. Upon completion, you will receive an internship confirmation letter, or you can apply to your school for internship credit.  

We’re building something significant — and we need the right engineer to help us get there.

📋 Role Overview

As an Android Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain high-quality features for our consumer-facing Android application. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineers to deliver experiences that are fast, reliable, and delightful to use.

⚡Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Design clean, scalable UI with both Compose and XML layouts depending on context.
• Architect features following MVVM principles, ensuring separation of concerns and testability.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate specs into polished user experiences.
• Write unit and UI tests; participate in code reviews to maintain quality standards.
• Monitor production performance, debug issues, and ship timely fixes.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help establish best practices on the team.

✅ Required Skills & Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of professional Android development experience.
• Hands-on experience in high-paced, high-growth production Android applications.
• Proficient in Kotlin— idiomatic, clean, and confident.
• Strong command of Jetpack Compose for building modern declarative UIs.
• Solid XML layout skills— comfortable working across legacy and modern UI systems.
• Deep familiarity with MVVM architecture and Android Architecture Components (ViewModel,LiveData/StateFlow).
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON parsing, and async patterns (Coroutines / Flow).
• Experience with Git and standard collaborative workflows (PRs, code review).

✨ Good-to-Have Skills

• 0–1 experience: built an Android app or key feature from scratch.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar).
• Experience with analytics SDKs, crash reporting (Firebase, Sentry), or A/B testing tools.
• Published apps on the Google Play Store.

AI Usage Policy:

We encourage AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) as force multipliers — but you must own your code, explain trade-offs, and debug without solely relying on AI

• Budget: Management of budget for Hardware Asset Management tools, services and staffing (permanent and temporary)
• Talent management: Permanent, contract, temporary and graduate trainees
• Matrix management: Management of staff with Hardware Asset Management responsibility in other business units
• Lead third-party Hardware Asset Management resources: Supervisory responsibility for third-party resources supporting Hardware Asset Management activity
• Financial: Oversight of spending on technology asset support, which includes hardware, software, cloud services, support, maintenance and hardware disposal
• Environment: Endpoints and edge devices, software and service asset vendors, on-premises data center assets, and cloud services
• Other: Liability management and remediation tracking

The IT asset manager will:

• Ensure that appropriate resources (people, tools, services) and processes are in place to gather and analyze data relating to technology asset life cycles and related processes.
• Promote and advocate the value of Hardware Asset Management to various leaders. This includes developing and promoting effective Hardware Asset Management strategies, policy, approaches and practices across the full range of digital technology assets used within the organization.
• Identify and report on breaches of Hardware Asset Management policy, and track remedial action.
• Report on (or develop reporting on) remediation of digital technology asset-related risks and progress of optimization activity.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting, and that data completeness and quality issues are quickly identified and escalated to the responsible data or process owners.
• Gather data on and provide analysis of all activities that have an impact on the value, cost and risk of digital technology asset life cycles.
• Provide finance with the data to support the analysis of digital technology asset project and maintenance budgets and business cases.
• Assign responsibilities for sub disciplines, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD).
• Ensure that Hardware Asset Management -related tools and services are properly evaluated, selected, implemented, configured and maintained, with appropriate integration with other sources of organizational data.
• Provide access to technology asset data in support of essential activities required to support the effective running of the business.
• Manage the everyday functions of the core Hardware Asset Management team. This includes staffing, budgeting and other relevant management functions required to hold all IT and business stakeholders accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and benefit of digital technology assets throughout their life cycle.
• Managing the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices.

The IT asset manager acts in a leadership role and must demonstrate the following leadership attributes:

• Strategic thinking — An understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to develop a vision and strategy for Hardware Asset Management and execute it effectively in order to drive results toward those objectives
• Interpersonal skills — Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
• Strategic relationship management — Includes working with vendors during compliance audits
• Strategic vision — Ability to sense emerging needs and drive change as Hardware Asset Management develops and matures to meet organizational and technology challenges

The Hardware asset manager must have the following skills:

• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and then effectively communicate these concepts with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and to manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
• Strong analytical, data processing and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in process formulation and improvement
• Ability to read and interrupt contracts to properly manage digital technology, which includes license and maintenance agreements
• Ability to manage the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices in a large scale. Demonstrable experience of managing assets in hundreds of thousands will be required.

The Hardware asset manager must have in-depth knowledge and experience of the following:

• Technology asset life cycle (whether digital technology, information, financial or physical assets), best practice governance, tools and services
• Policy, process, and procedure development and implementation
• Technology contracts and their likely cost implications through the technology asset life cycle
• Engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management legal, tax and accountancy advisors for additional information
• Data processing, analysis and quality management tools
• Ability to manage effective deployment, collection and disposition of assets and managing the devices through its lifecycle

Additionally, an understanding of IT business continuity, cybersecurity, and integrated risk management and optimization methodologies is highly desirable, along with knowledge of IT management.

The following experience is considered essential:

• A management role, including engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management, business stakeholders and frontline operational IT staff
• Prior Hardware Asset Management roles (hardware or software) or demonstrable experience of working with IT asset management professionals to deliver Hardware Asset Management capability and improved business outcomes
• Atleast 16 years of experience with IT, enterprise asset management or information management
• Demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients
• Demonstrated experience in liaising with middle and senior management
• Experience with building business requirements for digital technology tools and services, developing business cases, and selecting solutions using RFP documentation and processes
• Experience leading system or tool implementations, with responsibility for verifying capabilities, outputs, dependencies and implementation scope
• Experience managing deployment, collection and disposition of assets in a large scale with globally distributed workforce.

The following experience is considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• 13+ years of experience working in the working in a large IT/ITeS organization
• 13+ years of experience in managing external IT service providers handling digital technology assets
• Experience with ServiceNow platform

This is a sensitive role dealing with commercial risks and significant costs. The organization must have a high level of confidence in the integrity and track record of the individual appointed to this role.

The following certifications are considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• ITIL v3 Foundation certification
• Certified IT Asset Manager
• COBIT 5 Foundation

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in finance, IT, engineering, business management or a related field
• Tertiary qualifications in financial accounting, project management or data analysis, or a legal or paralegal qualification that includes contract, copyright or intellectual property law are preferred

Tez Minds is a technology-focused company. The company focuses/works on challenging technology and delivering the right solution to its clients.

Experienced team of Developers and Designers.

We have most of our developers from IITs and premium institutes in India.

The management team experience comprises of people who have worked in companies like Bank of America, Yahoo, Paypal, Verisign, Google, Amazon, and Cognizant in the Bay Area and in India.

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Googles Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, SVN
• Experience with Android Studio.

• Project Management Experience in managing teams of sizes 10-12 people in multiple domains. Managed international projects in mobile and web.
•     Knowledge of UI / UX process
•     Knowledge of Cloud Deployments - AWS, Azure, Docker
•     Knowledge on creating SRS / Scope Documents, Functional specification, technical architecture and project estimations.
•     Knowledge on Mobile Technologies (IOS/Android/Hybrid/Shell apps)
•     Hands on experience on working with SOAP and REST web services (XML/JSON)