Remote AWS Data Platform Lead — Healthcare Modernization

Talentify; Beaumont (TX); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform. The role focuses on migrating an MSSQL XML object store to a scalable, cloud-native AWS architecture, enabling efficient SQL reporting for business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has extensive AWS experience across data services, strong SQL skills, and the ability to design data models for reporting.

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 the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for users to run relational SQL queries against healthcare data.
• Architect the migration path for XML object store data into the AWS platform.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.

Skills

AWS

SQL

Data architecture

XML data

CI/CD

IaC

Data catalog

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

GitHub

CodePipeline

CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform. The role focuses on migrating an MSSQL XML object store to a scalable, cloud-native AWS architecture, enabling efficient SQL reporting for business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has extensive AWS experience across data services, strong SQL skills, and the ability to design data models for reporting.