Remote Senior AWS Data Engineer II — Healthcare Data Platform

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the evolution of a healthcare data platform on AWS, driving a scalable cloud-native architecture and SQL-based reporting for stakeholders.

With 8+ years in data engineering and deep AWS experience, you will define data strategies, migrate XML stores, and collaborate with BI tools while implementing CI/CD and IaC across the stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Experience migrating cloud data platforms 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.
• Strong SQL skills for relational queries over XML/JSON.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and transformations.
• Familiarity with BI tooling like Athena, QuickSight, Redshift, etc.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and AWS-native tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
• Design a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for reporting and queries against healthcare data.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy and storage/query options.
• Architect migration of XML object store data from MSSQL into AWS.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into data models and query patterns.
• Coordinate with back-end C#/.Net for data flow from EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS tooling and IaC practices.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS data architecture

SQL

XML data handling

AWS data services

Git / GitHub

CI/CD

IaC

Stakeholder communication

Agile / Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the evolution of a healthcare data platform on AWS, driving a scalable cloud-native architecture and SQL-based reporting for stakeholders.

With 8+ years in data engineering and deep AWS experience, you will define data strategies, migrate XML stores, and collaborate with BI tools while implementing CI/CD and IaC across the stack.