Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

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

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to lead the Edifecs platform for a Veterans Affairs department opportunity. This is a full-time, 100% U.S.-based remote W-2 position. Candidates residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. U.S. citizenship is required, and the selected applicant must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). The salary range is $109,623–$126,790. The role acts as the Edifecs Platform Manager, leading the application support organization and ensuring operational stability, scalability, compliance, and alignment with strategy. It provides technical oversight, staffing management, roadmap execution, architectural guidance, and hands-on platform configuration and support. The developer partners with product, architecture, vendors, business teams, EDI analysts, DevSecOps engineers, and cloud teams. The position requires extensive experience with Edifecs architecture and EDI transaction lifecycles, AWS environments, platform operations, integration channels, troubleshooting, performance optimization, compliance, and infrastructure as code. The role also calls for strong stakeholder communication, documentation, and the ability to resolve architecture decisions with limited direction. Ten or more years of relevant professional experience is required. An Edifecs certification and a master's degree in a relevant technical discipline are listed, along with preferred healthcare transaction, HIPAA, payer/PBM, clearinghouse, pharmacy operations, and AWS certification experience.

Requirements

At least 10 years of professional 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 behaviors.
Experience with EDI integration and interface management for inbound and outbound connectivity, including AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, API-based integrations, and gateway services.
Experience troubleshooting EDI transaction failures, mapping or alignment defects, partner rejection patterns, batch job-flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience with job-throughput optimization, engine and JVM performance tuning, memory management, high availability, failover orchestration, and monitoring dashboards.
Understanding of AWS EC2 instance 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, audits, and partner governance.
Infrastructure-as-code experience with Ansible and Terraform.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Comfort driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolution with limited direction.
Experience with Agile methodologies (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.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Applicants selected are subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
A master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is listed under Formal Education.

Nice To Haves

Edifecs certification.
Deep hands-on Edifecs experience with X.12 EDI standards, including medical claims transactions such as 837, 834, and 277.
Experience with 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.

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, Trusted Platform Modules (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, Java Virtual Machine (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 rejection patterns, batch-flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Optimize job throughput and engine performance, support high availability and failover orchestration, and use monitoring dashboards for proactive detection.
Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Work collaboratively with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production system operations.