Remote AWS Healthcare Data Platform Engineer

Talentify

New Orleans (LA)

Remote

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a fully remote role. You will drive migration from MSSQL XML stores to cloud-native AWS architecture, enabling SQL-based reporting for business users and analysts.

Responsibilities include selecting AWS data services, designing scalable storage and query layers, and building data catalogs. Collaboration with C#/.Net teams and IaC/CDK/CFN/Terraform are 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 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.
Strong SQL skills with the ability to design relational query layers over semi‑structured or non‑relational data (XML, JSON).
Experience working with XML‑heavy data stores – parsing, querying, and transforming XML at scale.
Familiarity with AWS analytics and reporting services, including Athena, QuickSight, RedShift, or equivalent BI tooling.
Proficiency with Git and GitHub - branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows.
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade‑offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolutions with limited direction.
Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA.
Strong documentation habits – architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, migration runbooks

Responsibilities

Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
Implement the evolution from MSSQL XML object store toward scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for reporting and queries.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Evaluate and recommend optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
Design and build the reporting and query layer enabling business users to run relational SQL queries.
Architect the migration path for XML object store data from MSSQL into the target AWS platform.
Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services through partitioning, compression, and formats.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models.
Work with back-end C#/.Net engineers to ensure data flows from EDI pipelines to the new data layer.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS-native tools.
Apply IaC practices using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries for all audiences.