Healthcare Data Platform Architect (Director)

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • $175,000 - $240,000 • Remote

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. The Data Platform Architect’s overarching role is translating business and product requirements into scalable platform and technology solutions. This role focuses on designing, building, and operating cloud-native data platforms and platform services rather than point solutions or single data tools. You will define platform standards, principles, and reference architectures that engineering teams use to build and operate platform capabilities. This includes software-defined platform services, APIs, authentication and authorization patterns, data access layers, and the underlying infrastructure required to scale and operate them reliably. The Data Platform Architect must demonstrate strong software engineering and distributed systems knowledge, with experience designing microservice-based platforms and self-managed cloud infrastructure. You will apply data mesh principles to enable domain-oriented data ownership, self-service platform capabilities, and federated governance. You must be able to communicate platform design strategies clearly, lead architectural decisions across teams, and ensure implementations meet scalability, reliability, and security requirements. A strong computer science foundation and the ability to learn and evolve with new technologies is required.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform, software, or data architecture roles.
• BA or BS required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology-based discipline.
• Ability to travel as needed up to 4 times per year.
• Hands-on architect comfortable working closely with engineers to translate requirements into production-ready platform solutions.
• Strong software engineering skillset with experience in distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience designing and scaling self-managed platforms and shared services in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of API design, authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Ability to design for scalability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with data platform concepts and data mesh principles.
• Experience working with modern data and processing platforms, including Snowflake and Apache Iceberg.
• SQL and Python experience.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with containerized and serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Familiarity with traditional application and platform design patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments and with cross-functional or global teams.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage time effectively and operate as a technical leader.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn quickly, make informed architectural decisions, and provide technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Apply platform and system design principles to architect a scalable, cloud-native data platform supporting multiple domains and use cases.
• Design and evolve platform services implemented as microservices, exposing capabilities through well-defined, API-first interfaces.
• Define reference architecture patterns for platform services, APIs, authentication, authorization, and data access.
• Architect self-managed platform infrastructure in AWS, including provisioning, scaling, reliability, and operational patterns.
• Translate business and strategic requirements into high-level platform designs including services, APIs, data access layers, and processing workflows.
• Define patterns for integrating data and processing platforms, including Snowflake and Apache Iceberg, into the broader platform architecture.
• Enable data mesh adoption through self-service platform capabilities, domain-oriented ownership, and standardized integration patterns.
• Design patterns for connecting authentication services to platform components such as APIs, semantic layers, and data access services.
• Create and maintain platform documentation including architecture diagrams, design standards, and reference implementations.
• Educate and lead engineering teams in implementing platform services according to architectural standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Governance, Security, IT, and Client Services to align platform strategy and execution.
• Evaluate and optimize platform scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

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.

What This Job Offers

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