Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Virginia Beach, VA

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is hiring an experienced Full Stack Developer to act as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs (VA) program. This remote role leads the Edifecs application support organization and is responsible for 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, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. It configures and maintains Edifecs components, guides EDI Analysts in building and optimizing processing rules and workflows, and troubleshoots mapping, validation, functional, and performance issues. The position also supports logging, JVM tuning, certificate and keystore configuration, releases, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades while collaborating with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps, cloud, and business teams. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote W-2 position supporting the VA. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Applicants in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. Applicants selected are subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. The stated salary range is $109,623–$126,790.

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, 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 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 or misalignment defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience with job throughput optimization, engine and JVM 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, audit, and partner governance.
Experience with infrastructure as code using 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 skills, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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 X.12 EDI transaction standards, 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 or 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, 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 issues and determine root causes of transaction failures, mapping defects, partner rejections, batch workflow failures, and performance degradation.
Optimize job throughput and engine performance; support high availability, failover orchestration, and proactive monitoring.
Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Document architecture, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Work collaboratively with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production operations.