Senior AWS Data Engineer II - Remote Healthcare Data

Socket.dev; Blacksburg (VA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to lead modernization of a healthcare data platform. This remote, W-2, full-time role focuses on migrating XML object stores to AWS and building scalable data architectures to support SQL-based reporting for business users.

You will work with S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch, and other AWS services, while implementing CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and IaC with

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).
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
• Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Architect migration from MSSQL XML object store to a scalable AWS data platform.
• Evaluate AWS data strategy and storage options (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Design reporting layers enabling SQL queries against healthcare data.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and analysts to translate reporting requirements into data models.
• Ensure data flows from EDI processing pipelines into the new data layer.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

XML data handling

BI/reporting experience

communication with stakeholders

C#/.Net integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to lead modernization of a healthcare data platform. This remote, W-2, full-time role focuses on migrating XML object stores to AWS and building scalable data architectures to support SQL-based reporting for business users.

You will work with S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch, and other AWS services, while implementing CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and IaC with