Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer (Healthcare)

Talentify; Virginia Beach (VA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native data architecture for healthcare data. Remote work with a focus on AWS services, data cataloging, and scalable reporting capabilities. Strong SQL and experience migrating XML data into AWS are essential.

The role collaborates with VA stakeholders, handles CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools, and emphasizes data modeling, performance optimization, and cost management in a modern data platform environment.

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.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to design relational query layers over XML/JSON data.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management for discoverability.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for SQL-based reporting by business users.
• Architect the migration path from MSSQL XML object store to AWS platform.
• Collaborate with back‑end developers to ensure clean data flows.

Skills

AWS

SQL

XML

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Agile

JIRA

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native data architecture for healthcare data. Remote work with a focus on AWS services, data cataloging, and scalable reporting capabilities. Strong SQL and experience migrating XML data into AWS are essential.

The role collaborates with VA stakeholders, handles CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools, and emphasizes data modeling, performance optimization, and cost management in a modern data platform environment.