Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Bethesda, MD

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs program. This remote, full-time role leads the Edifecs application support organization and ensures operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The position provides technical oversight, manages staffing, drives roadmap execution, and partners with product, architecture, vendor, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud teams. The role guides architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. It configures and maintains Edifecs components, supports EDI analysts in building and optimizing processing rules and workflows, troubleshoots transaction and performance issues, and manages logging, JVM tuning, and certificate and keystore configurations. Responsibilities also include release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, upgrades, and production operations. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote W-2 position. U.S. citizenship is required, and the candidate must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Applicants located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. Candidates selected will be subject to a government security investigation and other background checks. Interviews are conducted on Microsoft Teams with camera enabled, and candidates 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, 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 through AS2, SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS channels.
Experience with API-based integrations and gateway services.
Experience troubleshooting EDI transactions, mapping and alignment defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience optimizing job throughput and engine performance, tuning JVMs and memory, supporting high availability and failover orchestration, and using monitoring dashboards for proactive detection.
Understanding of AWS EC2 instance sizing, operating system 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.
Strong documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Ability to communicate effectively and engage stakeholders.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Must be based in the U.S.; candidates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington are not eligible.
Candidates' responses to mandatory screening questions must be supported by their resumes.

Nice To Haves

Edifecs certification.
Deep hands-on Edifecs experience with X.12 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 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 transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejections, batch-flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Document architecture decisions and systems through architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Work collaboratively with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production system operations.