Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

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

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to lead its Edifecs platform operations for the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote, full-time W-2 position requiring U.S. citizenship and a Public Trust (MBI) clearance or eligibility to obtain one. Candidates residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. Salary range: $109,623–$126,790. The role serves as Edifecs Platform Manager, leading the application support organization and ensuring operational stability, scalability, compliance, and alignment with strategic goals. The developer provides technical oversight, manages staffing and roadmap execution, partners with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams, and guides architecture, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance decisions. The position involves hands-on configuration and support of Edifecs modules and EDI workflows, resolving transaction and performance issues, managing system operations and releases, and collaborating with EDI analysts, DevSecOps, cloud, security, development, and business teams. The role calls for extensive EDI, healthcare or enterprise application operations experience, strong AWS experience, and deep Edifecs platform knowledge. A master's degree and Edifecs certification are listed, along with preferred healthcare transaction and payer/PBM experience and AWS certification as a bonus.

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, XEngine, TPM, EDI Gateway, and SpecBuilder architecture and operational behavior.
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 transactions, including root-cause analysis of failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejections, batch flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience optimizing job throughput and engine performance, tuning JVMs and memory, managing high availability and failover orchestration, and using monitoring dashboards.
Understanding of AWS EC2 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 documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Ability to collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless production system operations.
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/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.