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Sr. Lead Data Engineer


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 140000 - 190000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 youll 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.

The Huron Data Engineering team is looking to hire a Lead Data Engineer who is experienced in developing new features and improvements for data-driven web applications and working with common AWS web application services. The Insights Platform is a suite of healthcare analytics products focused on revenue cycle supply chain pharmacy and other healthcare capabilities. As the platform grows to deliver more insights new data pipelines APIs server-side processes and services will need to be designed developed deployed and maintained to deliver those insights to our clients. The Lead Data Engineer will be working daily with product leadership and data engineers on the team to help support and drive that growth.

Huron seeks a highly motivated and independent engineer to design and build solutions across its healthcare capabilities.

The Lead Data Engineers 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 $140000 - $190000 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 Hurons annual incentive compensation program which reflects Hurons pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity the total estimated compensation range for this job is $168000 - $228000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Hurons 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.

Position Level
Manager

Country
United States of America

Required Experience:

Senior IC


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