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.
Huron seeks a highly motivated and independent engineer to design and build solutions across its healthcare capabilities.
The Lead Data Engineer’s overarching role is translating business and analytical requirements into reliable, scalable, production-grade data solutions. This role focuses on designing, building, deploying, and operating data pipelines, services, and applications that support critical business use cases. You will define technical standards, architectural patterns, and operational practices that engineering teams use to deliver and support data solutions as longlived services. This includes designing data workflows, APIs, processing logic, and the supporting infrastructure required to operate these solutions at scale. The Lead Data Engineer will work closely with a Solution Architect to own and implement large scale technical implementations providing technical mentorship to other Data Engineers.
The Lead Data Engineer must demonstrate strong software engineering discipline, experience shipping production systems, and a mindset of ownership through the full solution lifecycle. You must be able to communicate architectural approaches clearly, lead implementation efforts, and ensure solutions meet expectations for reliability, performance, and supportability. A strong computer science foundation and the ability to learn and adapt quickly are essential.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and providing level of effort estimates for changes to the Insights applications.
- Developing high quality modifications to the application source code, processes, and architecture.
- Delivering fully tested code prior to prod-deployment when appropriate.
- Troubleshooting bugs and issues in the application.
- Coordinating with other engineers to ensure comprehensive changes to the platform meet business needs.
- Recommending and implementing enhancements that streamline processes and improve platform performance, availability, or functionality.
- Assisting in the creation of project plans and capability roadmaps to ensure development of technical solutions are adequately structured and represented.
- Maintaining updated documentation of system and solution designs.
- Providing applicable training to various internal functional SMEs and stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership to engineers working on data solutions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- U.S. work authorization is required.
- A technical (math, engineering, computer science) B.S. degree or equivalent work experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- 6+ years of professional Python and SQL experience.
- 6+ years of professional experience with Cloud Technologies (i.e. Amazon Web Services)
- Experience working with VCS (Git, Subversion, etc.).
- Excellent written and verbal communication and problem-solving skills.
- Motivated, self-starter with ability to learn quickly.
- Ability to work within a highly driven and multi-discipline engineering and product team.
Preferred:
- Experience in an agile development process experience with Scrum preferred.
- Experience working with PostgreSQL.
- Experience working with Data Build Tool (DBT)
- Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation)
- Experience working with UNIX based operating systems (Linux, Ubuntu, etc.)
- Experience working with Snowflake, CloudFront, API Gateway/Lambda, ECS, Application Load Balancer, EC2, S3, VPC, etc.
- Experience working with Git.
- Experience working with Analytics driven applications.
- Experience with Healthcare Data
- EDI/FHIR standards.
- This position can be Full-Time Remote.
Technologies We Use:
- Cloud (AWS) / Data Platforms (Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, S3) / Data Processing (Spark, Athena, Glue) / APIs and Services / Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) / RDBMS and NoSQL / Python / SQL / Monitoring and Observability Tools
The estimated base salary for this job is $140,000 - $190,000 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 $168,000 - $228,000 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.
Skills Required
- U.S. work authorization
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- 6+ years of professional software development experience
- 6+ years of professional Python experience
- 6+ years of professional SQL experience
- 6+ years of professional cloud technology experience, including AWS
- Experience with version control systems such as Git or Subversion
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn quickly and work independently
- Ability to work within a driven, multidisciplinary engineering and product team
- Experience with Agile development processes, preferably Scrum
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with dbt
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as CloudFormation
- Experience with Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux or Ubuntu
- Experience with Snowflake, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Application Load Balancer, EC2, S3, and VPC
- Experience with analytics-driven applications
- Experience with healthcare data and EDI/FHIR standards
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.
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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.
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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.
Huron Insights
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.
