Senior Software Developer (EDI)
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group is seeking a Senior Software Developer specializing in EDI for a full-time, 100% U.S.-based remote position supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. The role owns functional EDI workflows, partner requirements, and data validation rules to ensure accurate transaction processing and support business operations. The developer interprets and troubleshoots healthcare transaction sets, analyzes SNIP compliance and partner-specific validation rules, documents mapping requirements, and works with business stakeholders to resolve issues and assess operational impact. The position also supports audits and compliance reviews, maintains data-quality guardrails, and collaborates with EDI analysts, DevSecOps engineers, cloud teams, integration specialists, and business teams. Work includes assessing AS2, SFTP, and HTTPS flows; validating data exchanged with non-X.12 partners; identifying middleware or API issues; querying SQL transaction details; validating payloads, timestamps, statuses, and error flags; and reconciling raw EDI with stored data. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI). The position is a W-2 role. 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 checks.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of Edifecs product experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations.
- At least 8 years of EDI/HIPAA experience.
- Strong understanding of payer/provider workflows.
- Ability to interpret EDI loops, segments, and element-level errors.
- Familiarity with Edifecs Transaction Management or equivalent tools.
- Strong experience in AWS cloud environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong understanding of EDI X.12 loop, segment, and element interpretation; SNIP validations Levels 1–7; companion guide interpretation; and segment- or element-level error analysis.
- Experience interpreting Edifecs XEngine validation results and understanding processing rules and transaction profiles.
- Experience working with SpecBuilder maps and implementation guides.
- Ability to identify issues sourced from Edifecs routes, profiles, or rulesets.
- Ability to interpret Edifecs logs and error codes at the functional layer, not the platform-administration level.
- Proficiency in identifying transaction-error root causes, resolving mapping mismatches, troubleshooting payer or state-system rejections, and reviewing parsed EDI structures stored in SQL databases.
- Ability to understand inbound and outbound workflow architecture.
- 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 creating transaction-flow documentation and error-trend reports, handling escalations, and updating SOPs and partner reference guides.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience is considered.
Nice To Haves
- Edifecs certification.
- Deep hands-on Edifecs experience with X.12 medical claims transactions, including 837, 834, 835, and 276/277; 270/271 and 278; 820; and 999/277CA.
- Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture.
- Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations.
- AWS certification.
Responsibilities
- Own functional EDI workflows, partner requirements, and data validation rules.
- Ensure accurate transaction processing and support business operations.
- Interpret and troubleshoot transaction sets, including 270/271, 276/277, 278, 820, 834, 835, 837, and 999/277CA.
- Analyze SNIP compliance, companion guides, and partner-specific validation rules.
- Document mapping and logical requirements for new partners and integration changes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to resolve issues and assess operational impact.
- Support audit and compliance reviews and maintain data-quality guardrails.
- Collaborate with EDI analysts, DevSecOps engineers, cloud teams, and business teams.
- Work with integration specialists on AS2, SFTP, and HTTPS flows.
- Validate data sent to and received from non-X.12 partners.
- Identify issues introduced by middleware layers or APIs.
- Query SQL for transaction details.
- Validate payloads, timestamps, statuses, and error flags.
- Reconcile mismatches between raw EDI and stored data.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
