Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer II

Socket.dev; Severna Park (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) for the VA healthcare data platform modernization. This 100% US-based remote role focuses on migrating XML object stores to cloud-native AWS data architecture with SQL-based reporting.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, architect scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders and .NET engineers to ensure seamless EDI-to-data flows while delivering efficient BI reporting capabilities.

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 for SQL-based reports.
• Evaluate the right AWS data strategy for the platform and components.
• Design and build the reporting layer enabling SQL queries for non-technical users.
• Architect migration paths for XML object stores into the AWS platform with optimal formats and partitioning.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services through tuning and best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models.
• Coordinate with .NET engineers to ensure clean data flows from EDI pipelines into the data layer.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS tooling and IaC practices.

Skills

AWS data engineering

SQL proficiency

Cloud architecture

CI/CD practices

IaC (CDK/CF/TF)

XML data handling

Communication to stakeholders

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Git & GitHub workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

SQL

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) for the VA healthcare data platform modernization. This 100% US-based remote role focuses on migrating XML object stores to cloud-native AWS data architecture with SQL-based reporting.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, architect scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders and .NET engineers to ensure seamless EDI-to-data flows while delivering efficient BI reporting capabilities.