Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Ashburn, VA

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is hiring an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs (VA) department opportunity. This remote role leads the Edifecs application support organization, ensuring operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The position provides technical oversight, manages staffing, drives roadmap execution, and partners with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams. The role guides architecture decisions, modernization efforts, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. It configures and maintains Edifecs XEServer, XEngine, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), SpecBuilder, and related modules, and guides EDI Analysts in building, deploying, and optimizing Edifecs processing rules, routing logic, and batch workflows. It also supports troubleshooting, performance tuning, release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades in collaboration with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, and business teams. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote, W-2 position. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Applicants residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. Selected applicants are subject to a government security investigation and other background screening. Interviews are conducted on Microsoft Teams with cameras on. Applicants will be asked to provide a LinkedIn profile link.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations, software or data engineering, with strong AWS experience.
Strong knowledge of EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles.
Strong experience in AWS cloud environments.
Hands-on understanding of Edifecs XEServer, XEngine, TPM, EDI Gateway, and SpecBuilder architecture and operational behavior.
Experience managing EDI integration and inbound/outbound connectivity using AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, API-based integrations, and gateway services.
Experience conducting EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of transaction failures, mapping defects, partner rejections, batch flow failures, and performance degradation.
Experience optimizing job throughput and engine performance; tuning JVM and memory; supporting high availability and failover orchestration; and using monitoring dashboards for proactive detection.
Understanding of AWS EC2 sizing, OS tuning, storage I/O patterns, file transfer endpoints, routing, firewall coordination, network path debugging, and SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management.
Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows.
Knowledge of compliance, audit, and partner governance.
Infrastructure-as-code experience with Ansible and Terraform.
Ability to communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolution with limited direction.
Experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and JIRA.
Strong documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Ability to collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production operations.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).

Nice To Haves

EDIFECS certification.
Deep hands-on EDIFECS experience with healthcare X12 transactions, including medical claims transactions such as 837, 834, and 277, as well as 270/271 and 278 transactions.
Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture.
Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations.
AWS certification.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead the Edifecs application support organization as Platform Manager, ensuring operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment.
Provide technical oversight, manage staffing, and drive roadmap execution.
Partner with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams.
Guide architecture decisions, modernization efforts, cloud scalability, and performance strategies.
Configure and maintain XEServer, XEngine, TPMs, SpecBuilder, and related modules.
Guide EDI Analysts in building, deploying, and optimizing Edifecs processing rules, routing logic, and batch workflows.
Analyze and resolve mapping issues, validation failures, functional errors, and performance bottlenecks.
Manage system logging, JVM tuning, and certificate and keystore configurations.
Support release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades.
Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, and business teams.
Troubleshoot EDI transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejections, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks, and collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to support production operations.