Senior AWS Data Engineer II — Remote Healthcare Platform

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the healthcare data platform modernization using AWS services. You will evolve from MSSQL XML object stores to a scalable, cloud-native architecture enabling performant SQL-based reporting for stakeholders.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths, and build a robust data catalog while collaborating with a .NET backend team and implementing CI/CD with AWS tooling.

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 data (XML, JSON).
• Experience working with XML-heavy data stores.
• Familiarity with BI tooling like Athena, QuickSight, Redshift, or equivalents.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub, CI/CD practices, and AWS-native tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
• Design and implement a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for reporting.
• Evaluate AWS data strategy and storage/query options (S3+Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Build the reporting and query layer for relational SQL access via familiar tooling.
• Architect migration of XML object store data from MSSQL into AWS with optimal formats and partitioning.
• Develop and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services through partitioning and file formats.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting needs into durable data models and patterns.
• Coordinate with back-end .NET engineers for smooth data flow through EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy and IaC (CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

CI/CD

IaC

XML data handling

Stakeholder comms

C#/.NET

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Redshift

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the healthcare data platform modernization using AWS services. You will evolve from MSSQL XML object stores to a scalable, cloud-native architecture enabling performant SQL-based reporting for stakeholders.

You will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths, and build a robust data catalog while collaborating with a .NET backend team and implementing CI/CD with AWS tooling.