Data Engineer (DevOps / DataOps / Delivery Engineering) — Sr. Associate
Huron Consulting Group17 days ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$110k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and monitor production data pipelines across 10+ client environments, triaging failures and escalating complex issues.
- Set up, configure, deploy, and support client-facing application environments through go-live and post-launch stabilization.
- Build and maintain SFTP and S3 ingestion pipelines, event-driven triggers, file validation, and reusable data-quality scripts.
- Provision client infrastructure and manage AWS services, access controls, database setup, certificates, encryption, and secure file delivery.
- Build data-integrity alerts, monitoring, QC dashboards, and operational runbooks for pipeline health.
- Build and maintain Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and support Docker-based deployments across client environments.
- Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, implement remediation, and support client offboarding.
- Support Posit Connect administration, compliance activities, PHI classification, audit documentation, and credential rotation.
- Coordinate with client IT teams on file formats, schedules, encryption, delivery issues, and data-quality questions.
- Support the migration of the data lake and core tables to Snowflake.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2–3+ years of experience in data engineering, DevOps, or DataOps, including hands-on production data pipeline support.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS data pipeline infrastructure, including S3, Athena, Lambda, EC2, and SNS/SQS event-driven architectures.
- Strong Python scripting skills and comfort with Bash for ingestion, validation, and pipeline automation.
- Experience with Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tools and Git-based version-control practices such as branch protection and pull-request workflows.
- Experience configuring and supporting application deployments, not only writing pipeline code.
- Experience managing multi-client or multi-tenant data environments, onboarding environments, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to work as a generalist across infrastructure, data engineering, and DevOps in a client-driven environment.
- Preferred experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses, Posit Connect, R/Shiny, Docker, SAML/SSO, IAM key rotation, PGP encryption, healthcare data, HL7/ADT, monitoring systems, and direct client IT coordination.
- U.S. work authorization is required.
Benefits
- Estimated base salary is $110,000–$150,000 USD, with eligibility for Huron's annual incentive compensation program.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and other wellness programs.
- The role is listed as remote and is based in the United States.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that provides strategy, operations, digital, and technology consulting to healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial organizations. Revenue comes from advisory and implementation engagements, including cloud transformations on platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, and Oracle, and software like the Huron Research Suite for universities. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ.