Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.
Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.
You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
Primary responsibilities
Architecture and technical leadership
· Lead design reviews, and drive technical decisions on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
· Translate product requirements into clean, well-tested implementations; author architecture decision records (ADRs) and developer documentation.
· Define and govern engineering quality standards, coding conventions, and peer review norms across the team.
AI-assisted and agentic development
· AI-assisted development: Leverage GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and comparable agentic coding assistants across code authoring, review, test generation, and documentation to increase quality and velocity.
· AI agent development: Design, build, and maintain AI agents and multi-agent workflows; define agent instructions, skills, memory, and tool integrations; evaluate agent behavior in production.
· MCP and tool integrations: Apply Model Context Protocol (MCP) or equivalent patterns to connect AI models to internal tools, APIs, and data sources for agentic workflows.
· Stay current with the agentic AI landscape; bring forward-looking proposals to the engineering team.
Full-stack development and collaboration
· Build high-quality client-side and server-side code using modern frameworks; design RESTful APIs (OpenAPI standard); develop microservices on Azure or AWS.
· Write and execute comprehensive unit and integration test cases; troubleshoot deployment and environment issues across multiple projects.
· Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and contribute actively to sprint ceremonies in a globally distributed Agile team.
Required qualifications
Core
· Bachelor’s in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience); 6+ years of progressive software development experience on a commercial product.
· Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed computing.
· Production-quality C# (.NET); React or comparable front-end framework; NUnit/xUnit testing; Git/Azure DevOps source control.
· Relational database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) with query optimization; RESTful API design; Agile/Scrum methodology.
· Demonstrated experience with performance engineering, scalability design, and observability practices (logging, metrics, distributed tracing) in production systems.
· Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and related cloud-native tooling.
AI and agentic development tools
· Hands-on use of GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor to write, refactor, and review production code; ability to craft effective prompts and system instructions.
· Solid understanding of AI agents, skills, and tool-calling; ability to configure and evaluate agentic workflows for multi-step development tasks.
· Working knowledge of an LLM API or agent orchestration framework (Anthropic API, OpenAI API, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar) is a strong plus.
Preferred qualifications
· HTML5, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript with React or Next.js; cloud-native development on Azure or AWS; Docker and Kubernetes.
· TDD/BDD methodologies; AI observability tooling; familiarity with the Microsoft development ecosystem.
Position LevelAssociateCountryIndia
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of progressive commercial software development experience
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed computing
- Production-quality C# and .NET experience
- React or comparable front-end framework experience
- NUnit or xUnit testing experience
- Git and Azure DevOps source control experience
- Relational database experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server, including query optimization
- RESTful API design and Agile/Scrum experience
- Performance engineering, scalability design, and production observability experience
- Hands-on AWS experience with Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and related cloud-native tooling
- Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor for production code development
- Ability to craft effective prompts and system instructions
- Understanding of AI agents, skills, tool-calling, and agentic workflow evaluation
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript with React or Next.js
- Cloud-native development on Azure or AWS
- Docker and Kubernetes experience
- TDD or BDD methodology experience
- AI observability tooling familiarity
- Familiarity with the Microsoft development ecosystem
- Working knowledge of Anthropic API, OpenAI API, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar framework
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.
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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.
