Senior Data Platform Engineer — AWS Cloud Data (Remote)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG); Ocala (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization. The role centers on migrating from MSSQL XML object stores to a scalable, cloud-native AWS architecture that enables business users to run SQL-based reports and queries with ease.

The successful candidate will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths, and implement cost-efficient, performant data pipelines with CI/CD and IaC best practices.

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.

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.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for SQL-based reports for business users.
• Architect the migration path for XML object store data into the AWS platform.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

XML data

CI/CD

Git & GitHub

IaC

Terraform

CDK/CloudFormation

Data catalog

BI tooling

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

S3

Athena

OpenSearch

Redshift

Lambda

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the next phase of healthcare data platform modernization. The role centers on migrating from MSSQL XML object stores to a scalable, cloud-native AWS architecture that enables business users to run SQL-based reports and queries with ease.

The successful candidate will evaluate AWS data strategies, design migration paths, and implement cost-efficient, performant data pipelines with CI/CD and IaC best practices.