Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer AWS Healthcare Remote

Talentify; Panama City (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a 100% remote, US-based role supporting Veterans Affairs with a Public Trust (MBI) clearance.

The role emphasizes designing cloud-native AWS architectures, migrating XML object stores, and delivering a scalable reporting layer using S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, and Lambda. Strong SQL and IaC skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Proven experience architecting and executing cloud data platform migrations in production environments.
• Experience delivering reporting or analytics solutions for non-technical users.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization.
• Architect migration from MSSQL XML object store to an AWS-based platform.
• Design and build a reporting layer for SQL-based queries.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.

Skills

AWS

SQL

XML data stores

CI/CD

IaC

Data modeling

Git/GitHub

Cloud data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

S3

Athena

Glue

Aurora

DynamoDB

Redshift

OpenSearch

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to drive the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a 100% remote, US-based role supporting Veterans Affairs with a Public Trust (MBI) clearance.

The role emphasizes designing cloud-native AWS architectures, migrating XML object stores, and delivering a scalable reporting layer using S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, and Lambda. Strong SQL and IaC skills are essential.