Remote Data Platform Engineer - AWS Healthcare Modernization

Talentify; Clearwater (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of the healthcare data platform. This is a remote, U.S.-based role supporting the Veterans Affairs department. The candidate will drive AWS-native architecture, data cataloging, and scalable reporting for business users.

Citizenship and Public Trust (MBI) clearance are required. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in data engineering with AWS, strong SQL, XML/JSON handling, and experience with data migrations.

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
• 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 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 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 optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch) based on patterns, reporting needs, cost, scalability.
• 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 AWS platform, defining storage formats and partitioning.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services (partitioning, compression, file formats, patterns).
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into data models.
• Coordinate with back-end C#/.Net engineer to ensure data flows from EDI pipelines into the data layer.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• Apply IaC practices using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries for technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

AWS

SQL

XML/JSON

Data migrations

CI/CD

IaC

Git/GitHub

Data catalog

OpenSearch

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/Engineering

Tools

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Athena

S3

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of the healthcare data platform. This is a remote, U.S.-based role supporting the Veterans Affairs department. The candidate will drive AWS-native architecture, data cataloging, and scalable reporting for business users.

Citizenship and Public Trust (MBI) clearance are required. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in data engineering with AWS, strong SQL, XML/JSON handling, and experience with data migrations.