Remote Data Platform Engineer, AWS Modernization Lead

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is hiring a Data Platform Engineer to advance a healthcare data platform modernization from MSSQL XML to a scalable AWS data architecture. You will enable SQL-based reporting for business users and collaborate with stakeholders to define data models.

The role focuses on selecting AWS data services, building data catalogs, and optimizing performance and costs while working with a C#/.Net integration team in a remote, U.S.-based setting.

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 with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, and transforming XML at scale.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
• Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Evolve MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for SQL-based reporting.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Design and build the reporting layer enabling SQL queries over healthcare data.
• Architect the XML object store migration to the AWS target platform.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models.

Skills

AWS data architecture

SQL proficiency

XML data handling

CI/CD on AWS

CloudFormation / Terraform

C# / .NET

Data modeling

Data catalog / metadata

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is hiring a Data Platform Engineer to advance a healthcare data platform modernization from MSSQL XML to a scalable AWS data architecture. You will enable SQL-based reporting for business users and collaborate with stakeholders to define data models.

The role focuses on selecting AWS data services, building data catalogs, and optimizing performance and costs while working with a C#/.Net integration team in a remote, U.S.-based setting.