Senior Systems Engineer (AWS Data Engineer)

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Engineer) to lead the next phase of the healthcare data platform modernization, implementing a scalable, cloud-native AWS data architecture and migrating XML object store data to AWS-native data storage and query architecture.

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
• Experience delivering reporting or analytics solutions that serve non-technical business users
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across data-oriented services
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to design relational query layers over semi-structured or non-relational data
• 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, CloudFormation, or Terraform)
• Strong ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan