Remote Data Platform Engineer – Healthcare Data

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a remote role, supporting the Veterans Affairs department.

You will design and implement scalable AWS-based data architectures, migrate XML object stores, and develop reporting capabilities for business users. Collaboration with a .NET team and rigorous CI/CD practices are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
• Migrate XML object store data to the AWS platform with scalable architecture.
• Design and build reporting and query layers for SQL-based access by non-technical users.
• Architect data migration paths, storage formats, and partitioning for performance and cost.
• 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.
• Coordinate with .NET engineers to ensure data flows from EDI to the new layer.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS-native tools.

Skills

AWS services

SQL

Data engineering

CI/CD

Git/GitHub

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a remote role, supporting the Veterans Affairs department.

You will design and implement scalable AWS-based data architectures, migrate XML object stores, and develop reporting capabilities for business users. Collaboration with a .NET team and rigorous CI/CD practices are essential.