Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elios AI is seeking a Senior AWS Data Engineer to lead the development of a cloud-native data platform for a major federal healthcare modernization program. This role involves evaluating AWS data strategies, migrating existing data architectures, and designing user-friendly reporting layers for stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate AWS-native data storage and query architectures against query patterns, reporting needs, cost, and scalability
- Architect the migration path from an MSSQL XML object store into the target AWS platform, including storage formats, partitioning, and data organization
- Design and build the reporting and query layer that lets stakeholders run relational SQL queries against healthcare data
- Build and maintain AWS data catalogs, schemas, and metadata so data is discoverable and queryable
- Optimize query performance and cost across chosen AWS services through partitioning, compression, and file format choices
- Partner with backend C#/.NET engineers to make sure data flows cleanly from EDI processing pipelines into the new data layer
- Maintain CI/CD for data infrastructure using AWS-native tooling
- Document architecture decisions, data flows, and data dictionaries for technical and non-technical audiences
Skills
- 8+ years of software or data engineering experience with a strong AWS focus
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (equivalent practical experience considered)
- Deep AWS data services: S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch
- Strong SQL skills, including designing relational query layers over semi-structured or non-relational data
- Experience parsing, querying, and transforming XML-heavy data stores at scale
- Familiarity with Athena, QuickSight, Redshift, or equivalent BI tooling
- Proven experience leading cloud data platform migrations in enterprise or healthcare environments
- Track record of evaluating AWS data services and recommending architecture based on cost, performance, and business need
- Experience delivering reporting or analytics for non-technical business users
- IaC with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform
- CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- Git/GitHub collaborative workflows
- Strong ability to communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable resolving ambiguous architecture decisions with limited direction
- Agile delivery and JIRA, with strong documentation habits
- US Citizenship required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Experience with X12 EDI (837, 835, 277CA), HL7, or FHIR
- Familiarity with C#/.NET backend services for integration touchpoints
- Entity Framework migration or deprecation experience
- HIPAA compliance in cloud data architecture
- Healthcare payer/PBM, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations background
- AWS certification
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