Senior Software Developer
About The Position
Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Software Developer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a 100% U.S.-based remote, W-2, full-time position. Candidates residing in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered. U.S. citizenship is required, and the selected applicant must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI) and meet applicable government investigation and clearance eligibility requirements. The role administers, configures, troubleshoots, and enhances the Edifecs platform to ensure reliable, compliant EDI transaction processing. The developer works with Edifecs modules and workflows, resolves mapping and transaction issues, tunes platform performance, and supports deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades. The position collaborates with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, cloud teams, business teams, and other development, operations, and security stakeholders. The position requires substantial experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations and software or data engineering with AWS. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is requested, though equivalent practical experience is considered. An EDIFECS certification is listed under professional certifications. Desired qualifications include hands-on experience with healthcare X12 transactions, HIPAA compliance in cloud data architecture, healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations; AWS certification is a bonus.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations.
- At least 8 years of experience in software or data engineering with strong AWS experience.
- Strong knowledge of EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles.
- Hands-on understanding of Edifecs XEServer orchestration, batch flows, and execution contexts; XEngine validation, rulesets, and canonical structures; TPM trading partner configuration, routes, and agreements; EDI Gateway visibility, audit, search, and reprocessing; and SpecBuilder implementation guide definitions and map development.
- Experience managing technical aspects of inbound and outbound EDI connectivity using AS2, SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS, as well as API-based integrations and gateway services.
- Experience with EDI troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, job throughput optimization, engine performance tuning, JVM tuning and memory management, high availability and failover orchestration, and monitoring dashboards.
- 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.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to explain 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.
- Ability to work collaboratively with development, operations, and security teams to support seamless production operations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI).
Nice To Haves
- EDIFECS certification.
- Deep hands-on experience with EDIFECS and X.12 EDI transactions, including medical claims transactions such as 837, 834, 835, and 277; 270/271 and 278 transactions; and 999 transactions.
- Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture.
- Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations.
- AWS certification.
Responsibilities
- Administer, configure, troubleshoot, and enhance the Edifecs platform to ensure reliable and compliant EDI transaction processing.
- Configure and maintain XEServer, XEngine, TPM, SpecBuilder, and related modules.
- Build, deploy, and optimize 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, business teams, and development, operations, and security teams.
- Troubleshoot EDI issues and provide root-cause analysis for transaction failures, mapping defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput or performance degradation.
- Optimize job throughput and engine performance, support high availability and failover orchestration, and use monitoring dashboards for proactive detection.
- Gather and translate business reporting requirements into technical data models.
- Communicate technical architecture decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Document architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
