Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer – Healthcare

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Augusta (GA)

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 the healthcare data platform in a 100% remote U.S. role. You will design a cloud-native AWS architecture, migrate from MSSQL XML stores, build a scalable reporting layer, and collaborate with stakeholders and a .NET backend team.

The position requires 8+ years in data engineering with strong AWS experience. Applicants must be U.S.

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 Business Intelligence (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 a MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for fast SQL-based reporting.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Design and build the reporting layer that allows business users to run relational SQL queries.
Architect the migration path for XML object store data from MSSQL into the AWS platform.
Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models.
Work with .NET engineers to ensure data flows from EDI processing into the new data layer.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS-native tooling.
Apply Infrastructure as Code practices using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions and data flows for technical and non-technical audiences.