Remote Data Platform Engineer - AWS Healthcare Analytics

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Blacksburg (VA)

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. The role focuses on evolving from MSSQL XML storage to scalable AWS data architecture, enabling SQL-based reports for business users.

The ideal candidate will design migration paths, build data catalogs, optimize performance and costs, and work with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data models. Remote, US-based position with strong VA department alignment.

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.
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.
Implement the evolution from MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for performant, SQL-based reports.
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 relational SQL queries against healthcare data using familiar tooling.
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.
Work with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models and query patterns.
Collaborate 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-native tooling.
Apply IaC practices using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions and data flows clearly for technical and non-technical audiences.