Remote Data Platform Engineer - Cloud Data Architect

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 70,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is actively seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead healthcare data platform modernization in a remote, U.S.-based setting. You will architect AWS-based data architecture, migrate XML stores, and enable SQL-based reporting for business users.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in data engineering with strong AWS experience, and can translate complex data requirements into scalable models and cost-efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of 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 for non-technical users
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across data-oriented services – S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch
• Strong SQL skills to design relational query layers over XML/JSON
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, transforming XML at scale
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS data services and make architecture recommendations
• Familiarity with AWS analytics/BI tools like QuickSight
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub and collaborative workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD using AWS-native tooling
• IaC experience (CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform)
• Strong ability to communicate architecture to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience translating business reporting requirements into data models
• Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolution
• Experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and JIRA
• Strong documentation habits

Responsibilities

• Lead the healthcare data platform modernization initiative
• Implement an AWS-native data architecture for SQL-based reporting
• Architect migration of XML object store from MSSQL to AWS platform
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata for discoverability
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services
• Collaborate with back-end engineers to ensure clean data flows from EDI pipelines
• Apply CI/CD practices for data infrastructure using AWS tooling
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

SQL & data modeling

Data platform modernization

Stakeholder communication

Git/GitHub

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

AWS CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is actively seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead healthcare data platform modernization in a remote, U.S.-based setting. You will architect AWS-based data architecture, migrate XML stores, and enable SQL-based reporting for business users.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in data engineering with strong AWS experience, and can translate complex data requirements into scalable models and cost-efficient solutions.