Remote Data Platform Engineer — AWS for Healthcare

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

San Antonio (TX)

Remote

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a 100% U.S.-based remote role. You will architect a cloud-native AWS data solution, migrate XML data from MSSQL, and build scalable reporting layers for business users.

The role requires deep AWS expertise across S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, and OpenSearch, plus strong SQL skills and experience with XML data. Collaboration with stakeholders and EDI pipelines is essential.

Qualifications

8+ years of software or data engineering experience 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.
An 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 Business Intelligence (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.
Implement the evolution from MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for performant reports.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Evaluate and recommend the optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture.
Design and build the reporting and query layer for SQL queries by business users.
Architect the migration path for XML data from MSSQL to AWS, defining storage formats and partitioning.
Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into data models.
Work with back-end C#/.Net to ensure data flows from EDI to the new data layer.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS tooling.
Apply IaC using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions and data flows clearly.