Remote AWS Data Engineer II - Healthcare Data Platform

Socket.dev; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering for healthcare data platform modernization. Remote work option with a strong emphasis on building scalable, cloud-native data architectures and SQL-based reporting.

You will lead migrations, architect data strategies, and collaborate with analysts and engineering teams to ensure performant data models. The role requires 8+ years in data engineering with a solid AWS background, experience with XML

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Proven experience architecting 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, etc.).
• Strong SQL skills to design relational query layers over XML/JSON.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and transformation at scale.
• Familiarity with BI tooling like QuickSight or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD using AWS-native tooling.
• IaC experience (CDK/CFN/TF).
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of the healthcare data platform.
• Architect and migrate from MSSQL/XML to AWS-native data architecture.
• Evaluate AWS data strategies and storage/compute options.
• Design reporting layers for SQL-based querying by business users.
• Plan XML object-store migration, storage formats, and partitioning.
• Maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into data models.
• Coordinate with .NET engineers to ensure clean data flows from EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS tooling.
• Apply IaC practices using CDK/CFN/TF.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS Data Engineering

SQL proficiency

XML data processing

Data modeling

Communication to stakeholders

Agile (Scrum/Kanban) & JIRA

Cloud data architecture

Git

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS services (S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)

Git/GitHub

CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy

AWS CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering for healthcare data platform modernization. Remote work option with a strong emphasis on building scalable, cloud-native data architectures and SQL-based reporting.

You will lead migrations, architect data strategies, and collaborate with analysts and engineering teams to ensure performant data models. The role requires 8+ years in data engineering with a solid AWS background, experience with XML