Senior AWS Data Engineer — Remote Healthcare Data Platform

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Charlottesville (VA)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to advance a cloud-centric healthcare data platform for Veterans Affairs. This 100% remote role reports to the VA department and requires robust AWS data services expertise.

You will design scalable data architectures, migrate XML/object stores to S3/Athena/Redshift, implement IaC, and collaborate with C#/.NET engineers while maintaining CI/CD pipelines and data catalogs.

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.

Responsibilities

Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
Migrate from MSSQL XML object store to cloud-native AWS data architecture for SQL-based reports.
Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
Design and build reporting and query layers for business stakeholders.
Architect migration of XML object store data into AWS with storage formats and partitioning.
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 requirements into data models.
Work with .NET engineers to ensure data flows from EDI processing into the data layer.
Implement CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS tooling.
Apply IaC using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries clearly.