Remote AWS Data Engineer II — Healthcare Analytics

Socket.dev; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering to modernize a healthcare data platform. You will lead architecture decisions, implement cloud-native patterns, and migrate XML data from MSSQL into AWS with a focus on performance and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders and a back-end .NET team, drive CI/CD pipelines, and apply IaC practices using CDK/CloudFormation or Terraform. Remote work is available for this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of software or data engineering with strong AWS focus.
• Experience architecting cloud data platforms and migrations in enterprise/healthcare environments.
• Ability to design relational query layers over XML/JSON and to translate business reporting needs into data models.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of the healthcare data platform on AWS.
• Design and implement cloud-native data architecture with S3, Athena, Redshift, OpenSearch, etc.
• Architect migration of XML object store data from MSSQL to AWS.
• Build data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
• Collaborate with .NET engineers to ensure data flows through EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tooling and IaC (CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Document architecture decisions and data flows for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

AWS

Data architecture

SQL

XML processing

CI/CD pipelines

Data modeling

Stakeholder comms

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitHub

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering to modernize a healthcare data platform. You will lead architecture decisions, implement cloud-native patterns, and migrate XML data from MSSQL into AWS with a focus on performance and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders and a back-end .NET team, drive CI/CD pipelines, and apply IaC practices using CDK/CloudFormation or Terraform. Remote work is available for this opportunity.