Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Detroit, MI

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group is hiring an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for its Department of Veterans Affairs work. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote, full-time, W-2 position requiring U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Candidates residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. The salary range is $109,623–$126,790. The role leads the Edifecs application support organization, providing technical oversight, managing staffing, supporting roadmap execution, and ensuring operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The position partners with product, architecture, vendor, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud teams on architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, performance, and production operations. The developer configures and maintains Edifecs components, guides EDI Analysts in developing and optimizing processing rules and workflows, and troubleshoots transaction and performance issues. Duties also include managing logging, JVM tuning, certificates and keystores, supporting releases and infrastructure maintenance, and maintaining strong technical documentation. The role requires extensive EDI, healthcare or enterprise application operations, and AWS experience, as well as strong stakeholder communication and collaboration.

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.
Experience with EDI integration and interface management for inbound and outbound connectivity, including AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, API-based integrations, and gateway services.
Experience with EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific 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.
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.
Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Ability to resolve ambiguous architecture decisions with limited direction.
Experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and JIRA.
Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and documentation skills.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Must be based in the U.S.; candidates from CA, CO, IL, MN, NJ, NY, OR, or WA are not eligible.

Nice To Haves

EDIFECS certification.
Deep hands-on EDIFECS experience with X.12 EDI transaction workflows, including medical claims transactions such as 837, 834, and 277, and 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 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 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 transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Maintain documentation such as architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production system operations.