Data Platform Engineer (Associate)

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office or Remote
100K-153K Annually
Mid level
Consulting
The Role
Build and integrate a unified analytics platform across heterogeneous applications and data environments. Responsibilities include designing APIs, event streams, data contracts, shared platform services, ETL/ELT pipelines, presentation layers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code. The role partners with distributed data teams, evaluates consolidation and federation strategies, supports deployment reliability, and communicates technical tradeoffs through architecture documents and business cases.
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.

We are looking for a Platform Integration Engineer to join our engineering team and take on one of our most strategically important challenges: unifying a diverse ecosystem of analytics applications under a coherent, scalable technology platform.
Our analytics landscape has grown organically across multiple teams and products. The result is a collection of powerful but siloed tools — each with its own technology stack, data contracts, and deployment patterns. You will be the connective tissue that brings these applications together, making pragmatic decisions about when to consolidate and when to preserve the right tool for the right job.
This role is for an engineer who is energized by ambiguity, skilled at reading distributed systems, and opinionated (but flexible) about platform design. You will work directly with engineering leads and data teams, and you will be empowered to use AI-assisted development tools as a first-class part of your workflow.

What You’ll Do 

Platform Unification & Integration 

  • Audit existing analytics applications to understand their underlying technology choices, data flows, and integration points 

  • Design and implement integration patterns (APIs, event streams, shared data contracts) that allow siloed applications to interoperate without unnecessary rewrites 

  • Evaluate build vs. consolidate vs. federate tradeoffs for components across the platform, documenting your rationale and driving alignment 

  • Build and maintain shared platform services — authentication, observability, configuration management, logging — that reduce duplication across applications 

Data Pipeline & ETL Engineering 

  • Develop a deep understanding of existing data pipelines owned by distributed teams — including their data sources, transformation logic, and dependencies  

  • Design and build a unified presentation layer that surfaces data from heterogeneous compute environments — including large-scale distributed systems (e.g., Spark) and traditional relational databases — in a consistent, accessible way  

  • Partner with domain teams who have the deepest knowledge of their own data — acting as an integration architect and collaborator rather than a centralized pipeline owner; identify unification opportunities but defer to domain expertise on data semantics and processing logic 

Cloud Infrastructure 

  • Deploy and manage platform services on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP experience a plus) 

  • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi 

  • Collaborate with DevOps/SRE to define deployment pipelines and reliability standards for integration services 

  • Construct evidence-based business cases for cloud feature adoption — translating technical requirements into business value, risk reduction, and compliance language that resonates with IT governance and procurement stakeholders 

What We’re Looking For 

Required Qualifications 

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 years focused on integration, platform, or infrastructure work 

  • Proficiency in at least one backend language commonly used in data-intensive systems (Python, Go, Java, or similar); proficiency in two or more languages strongly preferred 

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred) including compute, storage, networking, and managed services 

  • Experience building and operating data pipelines (ETL/ELT), including schema management and data quality monitoring 

  • Working experience with AI-assisted development tooling in a professional engineering context 

  • Strong written communication skills — able to produce clear architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and design documents 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience evaluating and rationalizing heterogeneous technology stacks — i.e., inheriting systems you didn’t design and making them work together 

  • Familiarity with analytics or ML platform tooling (e.g., Airflow, dbt, MLflow, Spark, or SaaS equivalents) 

  • Experience with API gateway management, service mesh, or distributed tracing tooling 

  • Background working with both structured (SQL) and semi-structured (JSON, Parquet, Avro) data at scale 

How You Work 

We care as much about how you think as what you’ve built. The ideal candidate for this role: 

  • Is pragmatic over dogmatic — you reach for the right solution given real constraints, not the theoretically perfect one 

  • Communicates tradeoffs clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders 

  • Is comfortable making a recommendation and defending it, but genuinely updates when presented with better information 

  • Brings structure to ambiguous problems — you can walk into a complex legacy system and produce a clear map of what’s there 

  • Understands that “don’t touch what works” and “build it right” are often both correct answers, depending on context 

  • Takes ownership of quality and reliability — you care about what happens after you ship 

 

What We Offer 

  • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience 

  • Flexible remote-first or hybrid work environment 

  • Opportunity to define integration and platform patterns that will shape the organization’s technical direction 

The estimated base salary for this job is $100,000 - $130,000 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 $112,000 - $153,400 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 LevelAssociate

CountryUnited States of America

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year focused on integration, platform, or infrastructure work
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language commonly used in data-intensive systems, such as Python, Go, or Java
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services
  • Experience building and operating ETL or ELT data pipelines, including schema management and data quality monitoring
  • Professional experience using AI-assisted development tooling
  • Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce architecture decision records, runbooks, and design documents
  • Experience evaluating and rationalizing heterogeneous technology stacks
  • Familiarity with analytics or ML platform tooling such as Airflow, dbt, MLflow, Spark, or SaaS equivalents
  • Experience with API gateway management, service mesh, or distributed tracing tooling
  • Experience working with structured and semi-structured data, including SQL, JSON, Parquet, or Avro, at scale

Huron Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • 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
HQ: 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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