Data Platform Integration Lead

About the American College of Surgeons

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a professional and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and improve the quality of care for surgical patients. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 90000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. For more information visit .

Summary : This individual will own the data and technical integration roadmap serve as the technical lead across vendors and act as the primary architect and operational owner ensuring the platform is technically cohesive scalable and aligns with industry standards. While much of the engineering will be executed by vendors this role requires deep technical expertise and literacy and will have technical oversight of vendor resources to ensure correct execution integration and data quality.

This exempt position will report to the Associate Vice President Data Strategy in the Division of Executive Services. It is based in our Chicago office and is a hybrid role : 3 days per week in the office / 2 days per week remote.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $132000 - $165000 (commensurate with related experience).

Responsibilities :

• Own and maintain the technical roadmap for platform integration across ingestion transformation identity resolution and interoperability layers.
• Oversee day-to-day technical coordination with multiple vendor partners responsible for platform components.
• Integrate and validate vendor-built solutions ensure alignment with enterprise standards and quality benchmarks.
• Inform and co-design the ACS data warehouse and broader data architecture strategy (likely Azure-based).
• Lead and contribute to evaluations of data pipeline tooling and transformation layers offering informed recommendations to help guide strategic decisions.
• Provide subject matter expertise on healthcare data models interoperability frameworks and system configuration.
• Ensure seamless and secure integration of all platform components.
• Lead the operational handoff and monitoring of vendor-built pipelines and services.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for vendors internal product teams and clinical stakeholders.
• Drive delivery timelines technical checkpoints and cross-functional collaboration.
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering and data science teams.

Required Education and Experience :

Preferred Experience :

Comprehensive Benefits :

Were committed to attracting and retaining top talent via valuable benefits!

The American College of Surgeons is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If because of a medical condition or disability you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please send an e-mail to or call and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Key Skills

APIs,Jenkins,REST,Python,SOAP,Systems Engineering,Service-Oriented Architecture,Java,XML,JSON,Scripting,Sftp

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1