AWS Data Engineer

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Systems Engineer (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Engineer) to lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization, continue the evolution from a Microsoft Structured Query Language Server (MSSQL) eXtensible Markup Language (XML) object store toward a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture, and enable business stakeholders and analysts to run performant, SQL-based reports and queries against the healthcare data seamlessly.

Requirements

• 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
• A 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, Identity Access Management (IAM), Cloudwatch)
• Strong SQL skills, with an 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)
• An ability to evaluate trade-offs across AWS data services and make architecture recommendations based on cost, performance, and business requirements
• Familiarity with AWS analytics and reporting services, including Athena, QuickSight, Redshift, or equivalent Business Intelligence (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, Cloud Formation, or Terraform)
• A 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 resolution with limited direction
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA
• Strong documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks
• Professional CertificationsNone required however AWS Certification(s) are a plus
• Years of Professional Experiencen/aDesired experienceElectronic Data Interchange X.12 (EDI) Medical Claims
• X.12, Medical Claims (837, 835, 277CA, etc), Health Level (HL7), Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• Familiarity with C#/.Net backend services for integration touchpoints
• Experience with Entity Framework migration or depreciation projects
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture
• Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations
• Experience working with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)
• Formal EducationBachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Citizenship RequirementU.S. Citizenship required for this specific opportunity
• Security Clearance RequirementsMust possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI)

Benefits

• Full Time position
• Remote work
• Opportunity to work with a experienced team
• Able to work with a variety of technologies