Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is hiring an experienced Full Stack Developer to lead the Edifecs platform supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. This remote role provides technical and operational leadership for the Edifecs application support organization, including platform stability, scalability, compliance, and roadmap execution. The developer will work with product, architecture, vendor, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud teams to guide architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. The role includes configuring and maintaining Edifecs components, guiding EDI analysts in developing and optimizing processing rules and workflows, diagnosing transaction and performance issues, and supporting releases, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. The position requires strong EDI and AWS experience, hands-on familiarity with the Edifecs platform, and the ability to communicate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This is a full-time, 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 from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. A government security investigation and other background checks may apply.
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 troubleshooting EDI and conducting root-cause analysis of transaction failures, mapping defects, partner rejection patterns, batch failures, and performance degradation.
- Experience optimizing job throughput, tuning engine performance and JVMs, managing memory, and supporting high availability, failover orchestration, and 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.
- 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 collaborate with 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 X.12 EDI transaction standards, including medical claims workflows 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, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud 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, JVM tuning, and certificate and keystore configurations.
- Support release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades.
- Troubleshoot EDI transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejections, 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 decisions and systems using architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless production system operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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