Senior AWS Data Engineer - Healthcare Platform (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering for a healthcare data platform modernization. The role emphasizes architecting cloud-native data solutions and enabling analysts to run SQL-based reports against healthcare data.

The position requires extensive AWS experience, data modeling, and collaboration with stakeholders. This is a 100% remote, W-2 opportunity supporting Veterans Affairs (VA) with a strong emphasis on security and performance.

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 business reporting needs.
• Experience delivering reporting or analytics solutions for non-technical users.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across data services (S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Strong SQL skills to design relational query layers over XML/JSON data.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and transformations at scale.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS services for cost/performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Architect AWS data architecture for XML object store to support SQL-based reporting.
• Evaluate AWS data strategies and storage options (S3+Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift).
• Design and build reporting layer for business users to run SQL queries.
• Plan migration of XML data from MSSQL to AWS with optimal formats and partitioning.
• Maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata for discoverability.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.

Skills

AWS

Data engineering

SQL

CI/CD

IaC

Data modeling

Cloud architecture

Communication

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

QuickSight

Job description

Syms Strategic Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS data engineering for a healthcare data platform modernization. The role emphasizes architecting cloud-native data solutions and enabling analysts to run SQL-based reports against healthcare data.

The position requires extensive AWS experience, data modeling, and collaboration with stakeholders. This is a 100% remote, W-2 opportunity supporting Veterans Affairs (VA) with a strong emphasis on security and performance.