Remote AWS Data Platform Engineer II

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS Data Engineering to advance a healthcare data platform modernization. The role emphasizes building a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for efficient, SQL-based reporting and analytics against healthcare data.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths for XML object stores, and collaborate with stakeholders and a back-end C#/.NET team to ensure seamless data flows. U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Proven experience architecting and executing cloud data platform migrations in production environments.
• Track record of evaluating and selecting AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
• Experience delivering analytics solutions for non-technical business users.
• Hands-on AWS data services experience (S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Strong SQL skills for relational queries on semi-structured data (XML, JSON).
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores, parsing and transforming at scale.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS data services based on cost and performance.
• Familiarity with BI tools (Athena, QuickSight, RedShift) and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
• Design a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for reporting and analytics.
• Evaluate and decide the optimal AWS data strategy and storage options.
• Build reporting layers enabling SQL queries against healthcare data.
• Architect data migration from MSSQL XML object store to AWS platform.
• Develop and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models.
• Coordinate data flows from EDI processing pipelines into the new data layer.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tooling and IaC practices.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL proficiency

Cloud architecture

Data modeling

CI/CD

XML data experience

Healthcare data

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Git/GitHub

Athena

S3

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS Data Engineering to advance a healthcare data platform modernization. The role emphasizes building a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for efficient, SQL-based reporting and analytics against healthcare data.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths for XML object stores, and collaborate with stakeholders and a back-end C#/.NET team to ensure seamless data flows. U.S.