Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Tampa, FL

3d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for its Veterans Affairs (VA) department. This full-time position is 100% U.S.-based remote, though applicants from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. The role is a W-2 position and requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). The salary range is $109,623–$126,790. The role leads the Edifecs application support organization, with responsibility for operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The developer provides technical oversight, manages staffing, drives roadmap execution, and partners with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams. The position guides architecture and modernization decisions, cloud scalability, and performance strategies while supporting platform configuration, EDI workflows, troubleshooting, releases, and production operations. The position requires substantial experience with Edifecs and AWS, including platform operations, EDI connectivity and integrations, transaction troubleshooting, performance tuning, infrastructure as code, compliance, and collaboration across development, operations, and security teams. A master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is listed as formal education. Edifecs certification is listed under professional certifications. Ten or more years of relevant professional experience are required. Applicants must provide resume-supported answers to mandatory screening questions. Recruiters and third parties will not be considered. Interviews are conducted on Microsoft Teams with the camera on, and candidates will be asked to provide a LinkedIn profile link. Selected applicants are subject to a government security investigation and may undergo background checks, drug testing, and creditworthiness review. SSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Requirements

10 or more 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.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Hands-on understanding of Edifecs XEServer, including orchestrations, batch flows, and execution contexts.
Hands-on understanding of XEngine, including validation, rulesets, and canonical structures.
Hands-on understanding of TPM, including trading partner configuration, routes, and agreements.
Hands-on understanding of EDI Gateway visibility, audit, search, and reprocessing.
Hands-on understanding of SpecBuilder, including Implementation Guide definitions and map development.
Experience managing technical aspects of inbound and outbound EDI connectivity using AS2, SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS channels.
Experience with API-based integrations and gateway services.
Experience troubleshooting EDI transaction failures, mapping and misalignment defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience optimizing job throughput and tuning engine performance and JVMs, managing memory, supporting high availability and failover orchestration, and using monitoring dashboards for proactive detection.
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, 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.
Ability to collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless production system operations.
U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.
Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is listed under formal education.
EDIFECS certification is listed under professional certifications.

Nice To Haves

Deep hands-on EDIFECS experience with X.12 EDI transaction standards and key workflows, 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 or PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations.
AWS certification is a bonus.

Responsibilities

Lead the Edifecs application support organization as the Edifecs 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.
Support inbound and outbound EDI connectivity, integrations, troubleshooting, throughput optimization, and production system operations.
Communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.