Remote Data Platform Engineer — AWS Cloud for Healthcare

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Panama City (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of our healthcare data platform and migrate MSSQL XML data into a scalable AWS cloud architecture. You will design data models, build reporting layers, and collaborate with analytics and backend teams to deliver performant, SQL-based queries across cloud stores.

This remote, U.S.-based role requires deep AWS expertise, experience with S3/Athena/Glue/Redshift/OpenSearch, and strong IaC/CI/CD practices. U.S.

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 CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and 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 a MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for SQL-based reports and queries.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Evaluate and recommend the optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture for the XML object store data.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for 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.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services with partitioning, compression, formats, and pattern tuning.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models.
• Work with back-end C#/.Net engineers to ensure data flows from EDI processing pipelines into the new data layer.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS tooling.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code practices using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

Data modeling

Cloud architecture

XML data handling

CI/CD

IaC

Git & GitHub

Communication with stakeholders

Agile methodologies

ETL data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

MSSQL

XML processing

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of our healthcare data platform and migrate MSSQL XML data into a scalable AWS cloud architecture. You will design data models, build reporting layers, and collaborate with analytics and backend teams to deliver performant, SQL-based queries across cloud stores.

This remote, U.S.-based role requires deep AWS expertise, experience with S3/Athena/Glue/Redshift/OpenSearch, and strong IaC/CI/CD practices. U.S.