Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG)•Ann Arbor, MI

2d•$109,623 - $126,790•Remote

About The Position

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs. This full-time position is 100% U.S.-based remote, with candidates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington excluded. The role leads the Edifecs application support organization and is responsible for operational stability, scalability, compliance, and strategic alignment. The position requires U.S. citizenship and possession of, or eligibility to obtain, a Public Trust (MBI). Selected applicants are subject to a government security investigation and may undergo background checks that include criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness. The Edifecs Platform Manager provides technical oversight, manages staffing, drives roadmap execution, and partners with product, architecture, vendors, and business teams. The role guides architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategy. It configures and maintains Edifecs components, guides EDI Analysts in creating and optimizing processing rules and workflows, troubleshoots transaction and performance problems, manages logging and JVM tuning, and supports releases, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. The position collaborates with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, and business teams to maintain production operations. The successful candidate will bring substantial EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations, software, or data engineering experience, with strong AWS experience and hands-on knowledge of Edifecs architecture and platform operations. Edifecs certification is listed under professional certifications. A master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline is listed under formal education. The posting describes that degree as formal education but does not explicitly label it as a mandatory requirement. This is a W-2 position. Interviews are conducted on Microsoft Teams with camera on, and applicants will be asked to provide a LinkedIn profile link. SSG does not consider recruiters or third parties, and applicant screening answers must be supported by the resume.

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, including AS2, SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS channels.
Experience with API-based integrations and gateway services.
Experience conducting EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for transaction failures, mapping and alignment defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Experience with job throughput optimization, engine and JVM performance tuning, memory management, high availability and failover orchestration, and 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.
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 work collaboratively 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 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 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 (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 failures, mapping defects, partner rejection patterns, batch-flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
Optimize job throughput and engine performance; support high availability, failover orchestration, and proactive monitoring.
Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production operations.