Remote Data Platform Engineer — AWS Data Modernization

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Marietta (GA); 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 our healthcare data platform. You will drive the shift from MSSQL XML object storage to a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture, enabling analysts to run performant SQL reports against healthcare data.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design the reporting layer, and migrate XML data into the AWS stack. Collaboration with a C#/.NET team and CI/CD automation are essential to success.

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 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.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS data services and make architecture recommendations based on cost, performance, and business requirements.
• 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, 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.
• Represent evolution from MSSQL XML object store to cloud-native AWS architecture for SQL-based reporting.
• Evaluate AWS data strategy for the platform and recommended storage/query options.
• Design and build a reporting layer for SQL queries against healthcare data using familiar tooling.
• Architect migration path for XML object store data into the AWS platform and define storage formats.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services with partitioning, compression, and formats.
• Work with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models and patterns.
• Collaborate with back-end C#/.Net engineers to ensure smooth data flow from EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS-native tooling.
• Apply IaC practices using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions and data flows for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

AWS

SQL

XML

C#/.Net

CI/CD

IaC

Data Modeling

Communication

BI Reporting

Git/GitHub

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

Git

GitHub

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of our healthcare data platform. You will drive the shift from MSSQL XML object storage to a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture, enabling analysts to run performant SQL reports against healthcare data.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design the reporting layer, and migrate XML data into the AWS stack. Collaboration with a C#/.NET team and CI/CD automation are essential to success.