Lead Data Platform Engineer – Manager, Architect

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $140k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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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

• Set technical direction for a small team of platform engineers • Translate requirements and architecture guidance into well-scoped, sequenced work • Mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and design feedback • Coordinate delivery across contributors and surface risks and dependencies • Contribute hands-on to complex integration and platform work • Audit analytics applications, technology choices, data flows, and integration points • Design and implement APIs, event streams, and shared data contracts • Build and maintain shared platform services for authentication, observability, configuration management, and logging • Understand existing data pipelines, sources, transformation logic, and dependencies • 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 or CDK • Collaborate with IT platform teams on deployment pipelines and reliability standards • Construct business cases for cloud feature adoption using business value, risk reduction, and compliance considerations

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • At least 3 years focused on data engineering, integration, platform, or infrastructure work • 2+ years in a technical lead role • Proficiency in Python • Strong SQL skills, including working with large or complex datasets • Hands-on experience with AWS, including compute, storage, and at least one managed data service • Experience with AI-assisted development tools or coding agents in a professional context • Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly • Strong written communication skills • Preferred: experience with dbt and Snowflake • Preferred: experience with Apache Iceberg • Preferred: additional language proficiency, especially Spark or Java • Preferred: experience leading or coordinating engineering work across distributed or multi-location teams • Preferred: experience with ETL/ELT data pipelines, schema management, or data quality monitoring • Preferred: exposure to structured and semi-structured data at scale • Preferred: familiarity with Airflow, MLflow, or SaaS equivalents

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive compensation program • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Wellness programs