Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Socket.dev; Columbus (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the AWS data platform modernization for healthcare data. This role focuses on migrating from MSSQL XML stores to a scalable cloud-native architecture and enabling SQL-based reports for business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will design data models, optimize performance and costs across AWS services, and collaborate with back-end engineers while adhering to security and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Experience architecting 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 for 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 working with XML-heavy data stores – parsing, querying, and transforming XML at scale.
• Familiarity with AWS analytics and reporting services, including Athena, QuickSight, RedShift, or equivalent BI tooling.
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub - branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows.
• IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
• Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of the healthcare data platform on AWS.
• Migrate XML MSSQL object store to cloud-native AWS architecture with SQL-based reporting.
• Evaluate and decide AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Design reporting layer enabling SQL queries by business users.
• Architect data migration path from MSSQL XML to AWS platform.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, metadata management.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.
• Apply IaC using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Document architectures and data dictionaries for diverse audiences.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL skills

CI/CD pipelines

IaC practices

Data modeling

XML data experience

Data architecture

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Git

GitHub

AWS

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the AWS data platform modernization for healthcare data. This role focuses on migrating from MSSQL XML stores to a scalable cloud-native architecture and enabling SQL-based reports for business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will design data models, optimize performance and costs across AWS services, and collaborate with back-end engineers while adhering to security and compliance requirements.