Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs engagement. This full-time, 100% U.S.-based remote position leads the Edifecs application support organization, with responsibility for operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The role provides technical oversight, manages staffing, drives roadmap execution, and partners with product, architecture, vendor, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud teams. The position guides architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. It configures and maintains Edifecs components and supports EDI analysts in developing, deploying, and optimizing processing rules, routing logic, and batch workflows. The role also troubleshoots transaction and performance issues; manages logging, JVM tuning, and certificates; and supports releases, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. The opportunity requires U.S. citizenship and possession of or eligibility for a Public Trust (MBI). Candidates residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. This is a W-2 position. Applicants selected may undergo a government security investigation and other background checks.
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, as well as 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 optimizing job throughput; tuning engine performance, JVMs, and 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 across development, operations, and security teams.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Nice To Haves
- EDIFECS certification.
- Deep hands-on experience with X12 EDI transaction standards and workflows, 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, 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/keystore configurations.
- Support release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades.
- Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, and business teams.
- Support reliable production operations in collaboration with development, operations, and security teams.
- Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
- Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
