Huron Consulting Group

Lead Engineer, Analytics Platform & AI

Huron Consulting Group • $130K — $155K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience in full stack development.
  • 3+ years in a leadership or mentoring role for engineers.
  • Experience implementing AI or machine learning in analytics products.
  • Proficient in front end technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React.
  • Skilled in back end development using Python and related analytics API languages.
  • Strong relational database knowledge, particularly SQL and AWS services.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, particularly AWS CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead full stack product development from front end to data layer.
  • Set architectural standards for AWS-based analytics solutions focusing on scalability and performance.
  • Collaborate with product teams on feature prioritization using Agile methods.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into products for predictive modeling and data insights.
  • Work with data scientists to productionize machine learning models.
  • Design data pipelines for reporting and client-facing dashboards, ensuring data quality compliance.
  • Mentor engineers and improve team practices, code standards, and communication with stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Hands-on leadership role with significant technical responsibility.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including data science.
  • Opportunity to embed AI technologies directly into analytics products.
  • Professional development and mentorship for growing engineers.
  • Focus on healthcare analytics, impacting client data insights.
  • Exposure to state-of-the-art cloud services and AI tools.
Full Job Description
Market Insights is Huron's analytics product suite, built on a foundation of tens of billions of medical claims, millions of clinical providers, and hundreds of millions of unique patient lives. We are looking for a Full Stack Lead Engineer to guide the technical direction of this platform end to end, from the data layer through the user interface, with a mandate to embed AI directly into how our analytics products are built and how they deliver insight to clients.

This is a hands on leadership role. You will write and review code, set architecture and technical standards, and lead a team of engineers, while partnering closely with product management, data engineering, and data science to bring intelligent, AI enabled analytics capabilities to market faster.

Responsibilities

Full stack product development
  • Lead design and development across the stack: responsive front end interfaces, APIs and services, and the underlying data layer for analytics products.
  • Set technical direction and architecture for scalability, security, and performance of AWS based analytics solutions.
  • Collaborate with product management on roadmap, prioritization, and feature delivery using Agile practices.


AI and machine learning in analytics
  • Identify and lead opportunities to embed AI and Agentic AI capabilities into analytics products: predictive models, natural language interfaces over data, automated insight generation, and generative AI features that help clients act faster on their data.
  • Partner with data scientists to move machine learning models from prototype into reliable, production grade services.
  • Evaluate and apply large language model based tools where they add measurable client value, with attention to data privacy, accuracy, and healthcare compliance requirements.


Data engineering
  • Design and maintain ETL and data pipeline processes that feed dashboards, models, and client facing reporting.
  • Work with cloud data services, including S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, and Athena, to build scalable data infrastructure.
  • Uphold data governance, quality, and healthcare data handling standards across the platform.


Team leadership
  • Support, and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and career development.
  • Establish and continuously improve engineering practices, code quality standards, and delivery processes.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly to product leadership and cross functional stakeholders.


Qualifications

Required:
  • 8 or more years of professional software engineering experience, including full stack development across both front end and back end technologies.
  • 3 or more years leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI or machine learning within a production analytics or data product, such as predictive modeling, recommendation systems, or generative AI features.
  • Strong front end development skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.
  • Strong back end skills in Python, and an equivalent language used for analytics and API development.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.
  • Working knowledge of core AWS services relevant to data and analytics, including Lambda, IAM, S3, Redshift, Glue, and Athena.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CDK.
  • Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
  • Experience delivering software using Agile methodologies.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.


Preferred:
  • Familiarity with healthcare data interoperability standards, such as ANSI X12, HL7, and FHIR.
  • Experience with healthcare claims data is a plus.
  • Hands on experience with large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, or vector databases.
  • Experience with MLOps practices for deploying and monitoring machine learning models in production.
  • Experience with SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with row based databases such as Amazon RDS and Aurora.
  • Experience with columnar or data warehouse platforms such as Redshift, Athena, and Snowflake.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
  • Experience with a broader range of AWS services beyond the core set, and with Azure DevOps for build and release pipelines.
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, or infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
  • Background in healthcare or higher education analytics.
  • AWS certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Developer.
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


Position Level
Senior Associate

Country
United States of America

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm offering services to the healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial sectors. The company provides consulting, technology, and analytics solutions to drive operational and financial performance. Huron Consulting Group was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol HURN.
Learn more about Huron Consulting Group
Size
4,609 employees
Market Cap
$1.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$23.8 million
Founded
2018
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$871 million
NASDAQ

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