Data Operations Analyst

Huron • Chicago, IL

5d

About The Position

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 you’ll 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. Our Data Operations Analysts join us from a variety of backgrounds and make an immediate impact by supporting the delivery of high‑quality, reliable healthcare data solutions. In this role, you will develop hands‑on experience working independently and in team settings, building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, and contributing to solutions that enable accurate analytics and operational decision‑making. As a Data Operations Analyst, you will help our teams adapt to the evolving healthcare data landscape by ensuring data integrity, stabilizing ingestion processes, supporting platform operations, and enabling downstream analytics that improve business performance.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to assess data quality and identify root causes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team‑based environment across multiple projects and priorities.
• Experience or familiarity with healthcare data formats, data ingestion workflows, or SQL‑based data processing preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Excel and Outlook; experience with documentation and process design a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• U.S. work authorization required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a steward of data quality, ensuring client data is stable, reliable, and meets platform and user expectations.
• Analyze incoming client data for completeness, structure, and reasonableness, synthesizing findings to inform ingestion readiness and downstream use.
• Communicate data quality insights, risks, and remediation needs to internal delivery teams and leadership.
• Review client data formats and design mapping logic to support ingestion and SQL‑based processing.
• Create, maintain, and document client‑specific mapping sheets that drive import logic and support scalable ingestion.
• Perform structured data QA checks prior to downstream use, validating schema, values, and transformation logic.
• Support secure client data intake via SFTP, including access provisioning, credential management, and troubleshooting file or connectivity issues.
• Work with multiple data formats and ingestion patterns, including flat files, JSON, and healthcare transaction files (837/835) using third‑party parsing tools.
• Act as a primary liaison between clients and the client delivery team to ensure data files meet quality and processing requirements.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to configure and maintain supporting file artifacts such as mappings, crosswalks, and reference files.
• Support Azure‑based environments used for client data operations, including SQL databases, Azure Data Factory pipelines, SFTP resources, and related infrastructure.
• Manage user access and licensing within the Eclipse Legacy Azure tenant.
• Coordinate Microsoft Teams access and setup to support secure data intake and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Collaborate with internal team members to troubleshoot ingestion issues, resolve mapping questions, and improve platform reliability.
• Present findings, recommendations, and operational updates to internal stakeholders as needed.
• Contribute to the development of improved data ingestion practices, documentation, and operational standards.

Benefits

• Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.
• All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level