[Hiring] Healthcare Data Operations Architect @Huron

Role Description

The Data Operations Architect’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.

• Define technical standards, architectural patterns, and operational practices for engineering teams.
• Design data workflows, APIs, processing logic, and the supporting infrastructure required to operate solutions at scale.
• Demonstrate strong software engineering discipline and experience shipping production systems.
• Communicate architectural approaches clearly and lead implementation efforts.
• Ensure solutions meet expectations for reliability, performance, and supportability.
• Possess a strong computer science foundation and the ability to learn and adapt quickly.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable, maintainable data solutions.
• Design and implement data pipelines, services, and applications owned and operated by the team.
• Ship production-grade software that enables data ingestion, transformation, validation, and access.
• Design and implement APIs and services that expose data and processing capabilities.
• Define and apply architectural patterns that support reliability, scalability, and ease of operation.
• Own deployment, monitoring, alerting, and ongoing support for team-owned solutions.
• Establish operational practices for incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Design integrations with upstream and downstream systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers working on data solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Governance, Security, IT, and Client Services stakeholders.
• Evaluate and improve solution performance, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data services, or software engineering roles.
• BA or BS required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology-based discipline.

Travel Expectations

• Ability to travel as needed up to 4 times per year.

Additional Qualifications

• Hands-on architect comfortable building, deploying, and supporting production systems.
• Strong software engineering skillset with experience shipping and maintaining services.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines, APIs, or data-enabled applications.
• Understanding of system reliability, observability, and incident management.
• Familiarity with service-based and API-driven architectures.
• SQL and Python experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems, preferably AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and access control concepts.
• Familiarity with traditional application and service design patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile or service-oriented teams.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage time effectively and balance delivery with operational responsibilities.
• Motivated self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

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

Salary and Benefits

The estimated base salary for this job is $155,000 - $215,000 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 $178,250 - $268,750 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.