Remote Healthcare Data Platform Engineer

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Warner Robins (GA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive modernizing the healthcare data platform on AWS. The role focuses on moving from MSSQL/XML object stores to scalable cloud-native architectures, enabling business users to run SQL-based reports with ease.

Key tasks include selecting AWS data services, designing storage and query patterns, building a robust data catalog, and ensuring cost-efficient performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering with strong AWS focus.
• Experience architecting cloud data platform migrations.
• Proven ability to design reporting/analytics for non-technical users.
• Hands-on AWS data services expertise and SQL over XML/JSON.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and healthcare data a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of a healthcare data platform on AWS.
• Evolve MSSQL/XML object store to cloud-native AWS architecture.
• Design reporting/query layer for SQL-based access by non-technical users.
• Architect data migration path and storage formats for performance.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and back-end developers to integrate EDI workflows.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and IaC for data infrastructure.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

Data architecture

CI/CD

IaC

ETL/ELT

XML data

Data modeling

Cloud governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive modernizing the healthcare data platform on AWS. The role focuses on moving from MSSQL/XML object stores to scalable cloud-native architectures, enabling business users to run SQL-based reports with ease.

Key tasks include selecting AWS data services, designing storage and query patterns, building a robust data catalog, and ensuring cost-efficient performance.