Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer (Healthcare)

Talentify; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer for a remote position serving the Veterans Affairs department. The role focuses on modernizing the healthcare data platform and migrating data to AWS-based architectures for scalable, SQL-driven reporting.

Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in software or data engineering with strong AWS experience, and a proven track record of data migrations and cost-aware architecture decisions. U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.

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.

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.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for SQL queries against healthcare data.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

Data architecture

XML data handling

CI/CD

IaC

C#/.Net integration

Cloud cost optimization

Data cataloging

Communication to stakehldrs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

AWS Glue

S3

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer for a remote position serving the Veterans Affairs department. The role focuses on modernizing the healthcare data platform and migrating data to AWS-based architectures for scalable, SQL-driven reporting.

Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in software or data engineering with strong AWS experience, and a proven track record of data migrations and cost-aware architecture decisions. U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.