Remote AWS Data Engineer II – Healthcare Analytics

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to lead cloud data platform modernization in a remote role. You will architect and implement AWS-based storage, processing, and reporting layers for healthcare data, enabling stakeholders to run SQL queries efficiently.

Required are 8+ years in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus, experience migrating data platforms, and deep AWS data services expertise. U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Proven experience architecting and executing cloud data platform migrations in production environments.
• Experience delivering reporting or analytics solutions for non-technical users.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across data services: S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Familiarity with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, transforming XML at scale.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Implement the evolution to a cloud-native AWS data architecture enabling SQL-based reports.
• Evaluate AWS data strategy for the platform and advise on storage/Query architecture.
• Design and build reporting layer for non-technical users to run relational SQL queries.
• Architect migration path for XML object store data from MSSQL to AWS, with proper storage formats.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.

Skills

AWS data engineering

SQL

XML data handling

CI/CD

IaC

Data modeling

ETL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to lead cloud data platform modernization in a remote role. You will architect and implement AWS-based storage, processing, and reporting layers for healthcare data, enabling stakeholders to run SQL queries efficiently.

Required are 8+ years in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus, experience migrating data platforms, and deep AWS data services expertise. U.S. citizenship is required.