Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer for Healthcare

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Shreveport (LA)

Remote

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of a healthcare data platform in a remote capacity. You will migrate XML object stores to AWS, design scalable data architectures, and enable SQL-based reporting for stakeholders.

The role requires deep AWS experience, SQL proficiency, and familiarity with services like S3, Athena, Redshift, and OpenSearch. You will collaborate with developers, analysts, and the VA department to deliver secure, cost-efficient

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 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.
Deep hands-on AWS experience across data-oriented services – S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, and Cloudwatch.
Strong SQL skills with the ability to design relational query layers over semi-structured or non-relational data (XML, JSON).
Experience working with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, and transforming XML at scale.
An ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS data services and make architecture recommendations based on cost, performance, and business requirements.
Familiarity with AWS analytics and reporting services, including Athena, QuickSight, RedShift, or equivalent BI tooling.
Proficiency with Git and GitHub - branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows.
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy).
IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolutions with limited direction.
Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA.
Strong documentation habits – architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, migration runbooks

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 for SQL-based reporting.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Assess options like S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch for performance and cost.
Design and build the reporting layer for relational SQL queries against healthcare data.
Architect the migration path of XML object store data from MSSQL into AWS, including formats and partitioning.
Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models.
Coordinate with back-end C#/.Net engineers to ensure data flows from EDI pipelines into the new layer.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
Apply Infrastructure as Code using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions and data flows for technical and non-technical audiences.