Data Platform Lead & Platform Architect

Huron; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Wellness programs

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to provide technical leadership for our engineering team. You will unify a diverse analytics ecosystem into a coherent, scalable platform and guide distributed data teams.

You will mentor engineers, design integration patterns, build shared platform services, and drive cloud infrastructure with IaC practices using Terraform or CDK. Experience with AWS required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years in data/infra work.
• 2+ years in a technical lead role: mentoring and design reviews.
• Proficiency in Python with production-quality coding experience.
• Strong SQL skills with large/complex datasets.
• Hands-on AWS experience with compute, storage and data services.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools in a professional setting.
• Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar systems and pipelines.
• Strong written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a small team of platform engineers.
• Audit analytics apps and design integration patterns to interoperate.
• Develop deep understanding of data pipelines and collaborate with domain teams.
• Deploy and manage platform services on cloud infrastructure and IaC tooling.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

AI-assisted tools

Written communication

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

Airflow

Job description

Huron is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to provide technical leadership for our engineering team. You will unify a diverse analytics ecosystem into a coherent, scalable platform and guide distributed data teams.

You will mentor engineers, design integration patterns, build shared platform services, and drive cloud infrastructure with IaC practices using Terraform or CDK. Experience with AWS required.