Remote AWS Data Engineer II — Healthcare Data Platform

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization on AWS. You will architect cloud-native data pipelines, migrate XML object stores, and enable SQL-based reporting for business users.

The role requires extensive AWS experience, data modeling, and collaboration with analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Proven experience architecting cloud data migrations in production enterprise or healthcare environments.
• Track record of evaluating and selecting AWS data services to meet business reporting and query requirements.
• Experience delivering reporting or analytics solutions that serve non-technical business users.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Implement the evolution from MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Evaluate and recommend the optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for SQL queries against healthcare data.
• Architect the migration path for XML object store data into the target AWS platform.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL/Relational queries

XML data handling

CI/CD tooling

Git/GitHub workflows

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

S3

Athena

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization on AWS. You will architect cloud-native data pipelines, migrate XML object stores, and enable SQL-based reporting for business users.

The role requires extensive AWS experience, data modeling, and collaboration with analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions and cost efficiency.