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Huron Consulting Group Data Operations Analyst in Chicago, Illinois
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.
Key Responsibilities
Data Quality & Analysis
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.
Data Mapping, QA & Processing
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.
Client Data Intake & Collaboration
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.
Platform & Environment Support
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.
Team Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
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.
Requirements & Qualifications
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.
Position Level
Analyst
Country
United States of America
At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.
Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.
Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.
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.
Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.