Senior AWS Data Engineer - Remote Healthcare Data Platform

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

Tampa (FL)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 117,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer) to lead healthcare data platform modernization in a remote role supporting the Veterans Affairs department. The role requires deep AWS data services expertise and hands-on migration experience.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software or data engineering, strong SQL skills, and experience building scalable, cost-efficient data architectures using AWS services. Public Trust (MBI) clearance is a noted requirement.

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).
Experience with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, and transforming XML at scale.
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.

Responsibilities

Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
Architect and migrate XML object stores to scalable AWS data architecture for SQL-based reporting.
Evaluate and select AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
Design the reporting layer to support SQL queries by business users.
Collaborate with back-end engineers to ensure clean data flows from EDI pipelines.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure using AWS tooling.
Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries clearly.