Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to advance a healthcare data platform modernization from MSSQL XML to a cloud-native AWS architecture. This remote, full-time role supports the Veterans Affairs department and requires strong AWS skills.

You will lead data strategy choices, design reporting layers, optimize queries, and build CI/CD IaC pipelines with CodePipeline, CloudFormation, or Terraform, collaborating with business stakeholders and a back-end team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Implement the evolution from MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for SQL-based reports.
• Evaluate the right AWS data strategy and storage/query options (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Design and build a reporting layer enabling business users to run relational SQL queries with familiar tooling.
• Architect migration paths for XML object store data into the target AWS platform.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

XML processing

Data modeling

CI/CD

IaC

GitHub

OpenSearch

S3

Athena

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

GitHub

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to advance a healthcare data platform modernization from MSSQL XML to a cloud-native AWS architecture. This remote, full-time role supports the Veterans Affairs department and requires strong AWS skills.

You will lead data strategy choices, design reporting layers, optimize queries, and build CI/CD IaC pipelines with CodePipeline, CloudFormation, or Terraform, collaborating with business stakeholders and a back-end team.