Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs (VA) opportunity. This remote, full-time 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, supports EDI Analysts in developing and optimizing processing rules and workflows, diagnoses platform and transaction issues, and supports deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. The position collaborates with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, and business teams. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote W-2 position. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Applicants selected are subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Candidates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. Interviews are conducted on Microsoft Teams with cameras on, and applicants will be asked to provide a LinkedIn profile link.
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, and HTTPS channels.
- Experience with API-based integrations and gateway services.
- Experience troubleshooting EDI and conducting root-cause analysis of transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
- Experience optimizing job throughput, tuning engine and JVM performance, 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.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Ansible and Terraform.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including communicating technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to drive ambiguous architecture decisions to resolution 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.
- U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.
- 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 workflows 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 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 transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejections, batch-flow failures, and performance degradation.
- Support EDI connectivity, including inbound and outbound integrations and API-based integrations and gateway services.
- Maintain documentation such as architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
- Translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
