Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is hiring an experienced Full Stack Developer to serve as the Edifecs Platform Manager for a Veterans Affairs (VA) program. This remote 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, business, EDI, DevSecOps, and cloud teams. The role guides architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies. It configures and maintains Edifecs components, guides EDI Analysts in developing and optimizing processing rules and workflows, troubleshoots transaction and mapping issues, and supports logging, JVM tuning, certificates, releases, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote, W-2, full-time position. U.S. citizenship is required, and the candidate must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). Candidates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington will not be considered. Selected applicants are subject to a government security investigation and other background screening.
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.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Hands-on understanding of Edifecs XEServer, XEngine, TPM, EDI Gateway, and SpecBuilder.
- Experience with EDI integration and management of inbound and outbound connectivity, including AS2, SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS channels.
- Experience with API-based integrations and gateway services.
- Experience in EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Experience optimizing job throughput, tuning engine performance and JVMs, managing memory, supporting high availability and failover, and using 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.
- Experience gathering and translating business reporting requirements into technical data models.
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Edifecs application support organization as 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 transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch-flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
- Support job-throughput optimization, engine and JVM performance tuning, memory management, high availability and failover orchestration, and monitoring dashboards.
- Communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
