Data Platform Engineer, Associate

🕒 June 26

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $100k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🚰 Data Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Huron

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2002

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Logistics • Marketing

Huron Consulting Group is a global consultancy that provides a wide range of services including strategy, operations, advisory, digital, technology, and analytics solutions to various sectors such as healthcare, education, energy, and financial services. Huron helps organizations navigate complex challenges and drive growth through tailored solutions and innovative strategies. The company employs a team of experts dedicated to delivering high-impact solutions that address the unique needs of each client, focusing on areas such as managed services, outsourcing, and leadership development.

📋 Description

• Audit existing analytics applications to understand their technology choices, data flows, and integration points • Design and implement integration patterns including APIs, event streams, and shared data contracts • Evaluate build, consolidate, and federate tradeoffs and document rationale • Build and maintain shared platform services for authentication, observability, configuration management, and logging • Develop understanding of distributed data pipelines, sources, transformation logic, and dependencies • Design and build a unified presentation layer across heterogeneous compute environments, including Spark and relational databases • Partner with domain teams as an integration architect and collaborator • Deploy and manage platform services on cloud infrastructure • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi • Collaborate with DevOps/SRE on deployment pipelines and reliability standards • Construct evidence-based business cases for cloud feature adoption

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year 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, including producing architecture decision records (ADRs), 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 • Background working with structured (SQL) and semi-structured (JSON, Parquet, Avro) data at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Medical, dental and vision coverage • Other wellness programs • Eligibility to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program