Data Engineer - AI, Agents, & Context - Clinical (Sr. Associate)

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Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
110K-177K Annually
Mid level
Consulting
The Role
The role involves building and maintaining AI data capabilities, implementing data pipelines, and ensuring operational excellence in data management within a healthcare context.
Summary Generated by Built In

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.
Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.
Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Role Summary
This role sits within a strategic investment to embed AI into how we operate, serve customers, and make decisions within our healthcare business. We're building a healthcare-wide AI data and context platform with a focus on deep domain expertise embedded throughout our architecture. Our goals are:
Turn structured and unstructured information into trusted, reusable "building blocks" (semantic layers, retrieval services, and agent-ready interfaces) that accelerate product innovation
Deliver transformational speed and leverage — faster time-to-insight, higher automation of knowledge work, and a foundation that scales AI safely and reliably as adoption grows
Unlock new capabilities across our business and create the foundation that drives deeper domain innovation and cross-domain collaboration
This is a hands-on technical contributor who builds and maintains core AI/context data capabilities. The role executes key parts of the AI context platform — unstructured ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, and semantic layers — working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional partners to ship reliable, production-grade AI data products.

Key Responsibilities 

Build and contribute to the AI context platform 

  • Implement end-to-end pipelines: ingestion → parsing/chunking → enrichment → embeddings → vector indexing → retrieval/serving 

  • Build and maintain patterns for incremental refresh, backfills, re-embeddings, deduplication, and lineage across unstructured sources 

  • Contribute to retrieval quality improvements (query strategies, hybrid search, metadata filtering) in partnership with AI engineers 

Deliver semantic and governed data products 

  • Implement semantic layers (metrics/entities) that power BI and agent reasoning consistently 

  • Apply established data contracts and context contracts for AI inputs (schemas, metadata requirements, freshness, citation expectations) 

  • Ensure datasets and indexes are documented and reusable 

Operational excellence 

  • Support reliability and performance across assigned workstreams: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response 

  • Contribute to cost and latency optimization across warehouse/lakehouse and vector infrastructure 

AI safety and compliance 

  • Apply security-by-design patterns: RBAC/ABAC, PII redaction, retention controls, and audit logging 

  • Follow established guardrails for AI access to enterprise knowledge in coordination with Security/Legal/Compliance 

 

Travel Expectations
  • Ability to travel as needed up to 4 times per year.

Required Qualifications 
  • BA or BS required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology-based discipline

  • 3–6 years in data engineering or data platform roles with strong hands-on delivery 

  • Strong SQL and Python (or Scala/Java); solid production engineering habits 

  • Experience designing and operating cloud data pipelines at scale 

  • Experience working with unstructured data processing and search/retrieval concepts 

  • Clear communicator who can work effectively across technical and functional teams 

 

Preferred Qualifications 
  • Hands-on experience with vector search and embeddings (pgvector/Pinecone/Weaviate/OpenSearch/Elastic) and retrieval patterns (semantic retrieval, hybrid search, reranking) 

  • Experience supporting LLM applications (RAG, agent tool interfaces, evaluation/observability) 

  • Familiarity with knowledge graphs/semantic modeling or metrics layers 

  • Experience in regulated environments and data governance programs 

 
Example Success Measures 
  • Measurable improvement in AI outcomes: higher retrieval precision/recall, better citation coverage, fewer "missing context" failures 

  • Reduced latency/cost per retrieval and improved platform reliability (SLO attainment, lower MTTR) 

  • Consistent application of semantic definitions and context contracts across assigned workstreams 

  • Delivery quality: production-ready outputs with minimal rework, well-documented and maintainable 

 

Behavioral Attributes 
  • Eager to learn the domain: Proactively builds familiarity with healthcare processes, terminology, and KPIs — can engage credibly with SMEs and ask the right clarifying questions 

  • Collaborative and stakeholder-aware: Works well with engineers, consultants, and functional partners; communicates progress and flags risks clearly 

  • Consultative problem-solver: Approaches requests with a "diagnose before prescribe" mindset — proposes options and works toward durable solutions rather than one-off fixes 

  • High ownership and follow-through: Treats reliability, documentation, and operational readiness as part of the work; finishes what they start; holds a high bar for production quality 

  • Clear communicator: Can go deep with engineers and explain concepts plainly to non-technical partners; writes solid docs and runbooks 

  • Pragmatic builder: Biases toward shipping value in iterations, validating with users, and improving based on feedback 

  • Comfortable with ambiguity: Adapts quickly in evolving AI/data product environments and turns unclear goals into actionable tasks 

  • Integrity and stewardship: Handles sensitive data responsibly and respects established governance patterns 

The estimated base salary for this job is $110,000 - $150,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $123,200 - $177,000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

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Position LevelSenior Associate

CountryUnited States of America

Skills Required

  • 3-6 years in data engineering or data platform roles
  • Strong SQL and Python (or Scala/Java) skills
  • Experience designing and operating cloud data pipelines at scale
  • Experience working with unstructured data processing
  • Clear communicator capable of collaboration

Huron Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huron and has not been reviewed or approved by Huron.

  • Retirement Support Retirement programs include a company 401(k) match positioned as a core element of total rewards, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Company materials and filings describe a competitive match structure with broad availability.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility An employee stock purchase plan provides company‑matched RSUs on purchased shares and is broadly accessible across the workforce, indicating meaningful equity participation. Company filings outline the plan’s match design and wide eligibility.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Policies emphasize flexible/unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave with caregiving resources, reflecting expansive time‑off options. Careers and benefits pages present flexibility and time away as core components of the package.

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The Company
Chicago, IL
3,753 Employees
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve.

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