Senior AWS Data Architect - Healthcare Platform

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering to advance our healthcare data platform remotely for the Veterans Affairs department. The role emphasizes designing scalable, cloud-native data architectures, migrating XML-based stores to AWS, and enabling business users to run SQL-based queries with familiar tools.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in AWS data engineering, strong SQL, and experience with BI tooling and CI/CD practices.

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 environments.
• Track record of evaluating and selecting AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
• Experience delivering analytics solutions for non-technical users.
• Hands-on AWS experience across data services: S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Strong SQL skills and relational query design over XML/JSON.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and data transformation at scale.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS services for cost/performance.
• Familiarity with AWS analytics/BI tools: Athena, QuickSight, Redshift or similar.
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub, CI/CD practices, and AWS-native tooling.
• IaC experience: AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Strong communication of architecture decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience translating business reporting requirements into data models.
• Comfort making decisions in ambiguous architecture scenarios.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and JIRA.
• Strong documentation habits: architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of the healthcare data platform.
• Architect cloud-native AWS data architecture for reporting and analytics.
• Design and implement scalable reporting layers for SQL queries over healthcare data.
• Migrate XML object stores from MSSQL to AWS with optimal storage formats.
• Build and 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 data flow from EDI processing into the new data layer.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS tools.
• Apply IaC practices using CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries for all audiences.

Skills

AWS data engineering

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

XML processing

BI/reporting tooling

Git/GitHub

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

Git

GitHub

OpenSearch

S3/Athena/Glue

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering to advance our healthcare data platform remotely for the Veterans Affairs department. The role emphasizes designing scalable, cloud-native data architectures, migrating XML-based stores to AWS, and enabling business users to run SQL-based queries with familiar tools.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in AWS data engineering, strong SQL, and experience with BI tooling and CI/CD practices.