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. The ideal candidate will have 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 enterprise or healthcare environments, and a track record of evaluating and selecting AWS data services to meet business reporting and query requirements.

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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Life insurance