Remote Healthcare Data Platform Engineer (AWS)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Pensacola (FL)

Remote

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform. This 100% U.S.-based remote position requires strong AWS skills and experience with data migrations, SQL reporting, and data cataloging.

You will architect a cloud-native AWS data platform, migrate XML object stores, and build a SQL reporting layer. Collaboration with .NET backend and EDI pipelines is essential to ensure seamless data flows.

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 performant SQL-based reports.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Evaluate and recommend the optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
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 via partitioning, compression, file formats, and query tuning.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into durable data models and query patterns.
Work with backend C#/.Net to ensure data flows from EDI processing to the new data layer.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS-native tooling.
Apply IaC practices using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries for technical and non-technical audiences.