Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote (AWS)

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform. This remote role requires building a cloud-native AWS architecture, migrating an XML object store, and enabling SQL-based reporting for business users.

Responsibilities include selecting AWS data services, designing migration paths, and developing CI/CD pipelines with IaC. U.S. citizenship and Public Trust clearance are required; Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Experience architecting cloud data platform migrations in production.
• Proven ability to select AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
• Experience delivering analytics for non-technical users.
• Hands-on AWS data services: S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch.

Responsibilities

• Lead the healthcare data platform modernization.
• Evolve MSSQL XML object store to scalable AWS data architecture.
• Decide AWS data strategy and storage/ query architecture options.
• Design reporting layer for SQL queries by business users.
• Migrate XML object store data from MSSQL to AWS with partitioning strategies.
• Build data catalog, schemas, and metadata management.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into data models.
• Integrate data flows from EDI pipelines into the new data layer.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools; apply IaC with CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries.

Skills

AWS cloud

SQL

Data architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitHub

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

Athena

Redshift

OpenSearch

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform. This remote role requires building a cloud-native AWS architecture, migrating an XML object store, and enabling SQL-based reporting for business users.

Responsibilities include selecting AWS data services, designing migration paths, and developing CI/CD pipelines with IaC. U.S. citizenship and Public Trust clearance are required; Veterans are encouraged to apply.