Senior Data Platform Engineer - AWS Healthcare (Remote)

Talentify; Saint Petersburg (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a remote capacity. You will design cloud-native AWS architecture, migrate XML object stores, and empower analysts with SQL-based reporting.

This role requires strong AWS expertise and experience with data warehousing, CI/CD, IaC, and stakeholder collaboration. Responsibilities include architecting the migration path, building data catalogs, and optimizing performance and cost

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.
• 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.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and AWS-native tooling (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy).
• IaC experience (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).
• Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade‑offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.
• Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolutions with limited direction.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA.
• Strong documentation habits – architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, migration runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Implement the evolution from a MSSQL XML object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture for performant SQL-based reports.
• Evaluate and decide the right AWS data strategy for the platform.
• Evaluate and recommend the optimal AWS-native data storage and query architecture (S3 + Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Design and build the reporting and query layer for relational SQL queries against healthcare data.
• Architect the migration path for XML object store data from MSSQL into the target AWS platform.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into data models and query patterns.
• Coordinate with back-end C#/.Net engineers to ensure data flows from EDI processing to the new data layer.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure with AWS tooling.
• Apply IaC practices using CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries clearly.

Skills

AWS data services

SQL

XML data

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Data platform modernization

Data modeling

Architecture decisions

Healthcare data

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Git/GitHub

OpenSearch

Athena

QuickSight

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform in a remote capacity. You will design cloud-native AWS architecture, migrate XML object stores, and empower analysts with SQL-based reporting.

This role requires strong AWS expertise and experience with data warehousing, CI/CD, IaC, and stakeholder collaboration. Responsibilities include architecting the migration path, building data catalogs, and optimizing performance and cost