Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer II

Socket.dev; Towson (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) with a strong cloud data focus to lead modernization efforts for healthcare data platforms. You will migrate from MSSQL XML to a scalable AWS data architecture, enabling SQL-based reporting for business stakeholders and analysts.

You will evaluate AWS data services, design storage and query patterns, and implement IaC and CI/CD pipelines. Strong collaboration with stakeholders and backend teams is essential.

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.
• Track record of evaluating AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
• Experience delivering reporting solutions for non-technical users.
• Hands-on AWS data services including S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Strong SQL and data modeling for relational layers over XML/JSON.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and data migrations.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with BI tooling (Athena, QuickSight) and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and IaC (CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Ability to translate business reporting needs into technical models.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of healthcare data platform and migrate XML object store to AWS.
• Evaluate AWS data storage and query architectures for cost and performance.
• Design and build SQL-based reporting layers for business users.
• Architect XML object store migration paths and data organization.
• Maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize queries and costs across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into data models.
• Coordinate with back-end C#/.Net teams for data flows from EDI processing to data layer.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tooling and IaC practices (CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS data engineering

SQL design

communication with stakeholders

Agile methodologies

Git/GitHub workflows

CI/CD practices

Infrastructure as Code

data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) with a strong cloud data focus to lead modernization efforts for healthcare data platforms. You will migrate from MSSQL XML to a scalable AWS data architecture, enabling SQL-based reporting for business stakeholders and analysts.

You will evaluate AWS data services, design storage and query patterns, and implement IaC and CI/CD pipelines. Strong collaboration with stakeholders and backend teams is essential.