Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC (SSG); Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead) for a 100% remote U.S.-based role. The candidate will act as the Edifecs Platform Manager, overseeing the Edifecs application support organization, ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance while aligning with product roadmaps and business goals.

Required experience spans Edifecs architecture, AWS cloud environments, EDI integration, and strong communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles
• AWS cloud environments experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
• Hands-on platform architecture and operational behaviors
• Edifecs XEServer orchestration and batch flows
• XEngine validation and rulesets
• TPM partner configuration
• EDI Gateway visibility and reprocessing
• API-based integrations and gateway services
• Experience with EDI troubleshooting and performance tuning
• JVM tuning and memory management for high availability
• IAM, SSL/TLS cert lifecycle management
• Git and GitHub workflows
• Infra as code: Ansible and Terraform
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical data models
• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and Jira
• Documentation of architecture and runbooks
• Collaborative with dev/ops/security teams

Responsibilities

• Act as the Edifecs Platform Manager ensuring stability, scalability, compliance, and alignment
• Provide technical oversight, staffing, and roadmap execution
• Partner with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams
• Guide architecture decisions, modernization, and cloud scalability
• Configure and maintain Edifecs modules (XEServer, XEngine, TPMs)
• Guide EDI Analysts in building and optimizing Edifecs processing rules
• Analyze and resolve mapping, validation, and performance issues
• Manage JVM tuning, logging, and certificate configurations
• Support releases, environment refreshes, patches, upgrades
• Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps, Cloud teams, and business teams

Skills

EDIFECS architecture

AWS cloud

JVM tuning

EDI

Git/GitHub

Security compliance

Agile/Scrum

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder comms

Education

Master renowned?

Tools

Edifecs XEServer

Edifecs XEngine

SpecBuilder

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

Git

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer (Edifecs Lead)

Location: Remote

Department: Veterans Affairs (VA)

Type: Full Time

Min. Experience: Experienced

Security Clearance Level: Public Trust (MBI)

Salary Range: $109,623 - $126,790

Applicants previously applied to Syms Strategic Group (SSG) need not reapply. Applications are still under review.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Act as the Edifecs Platform Manager leading the Edifecs application support organization, 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 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Analysts with the building, deployment, and optimization of 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/keystore configurations
• Support release deployments, environment refreshes, patching, and upgrades
• Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps Engineers, Cloud teams, and business teams

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge of EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles
• Strong experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A hands-on understanding of the platform architecture and operational behaviors across the following:
• Edifecs XEServer (orchestrations, batch flows, execution contexts)
• XEngine (validation, rulesets, canonical structures)
• TPM (trading partner configuration, routes, agreements)
• EDI Gateway (visibility, audit, search, and reprocessing)
• SpecBuilder (Implementation Guide (IG) definitions, map development)
• Experience with EDI Integration and Interface Management of all technical aspects of inbound/outbound connectivity, consistent with the following:
• Applicability Statement 2 (AS2), Secure File Transfer Portal (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS), Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) channels
• Application Programming Interface (API)-based integrations and gateway services
• Experience with EDI troubleshooting providing root-cause analysis of transaction failures, mapping/misalignment defects, partner-specific rejection patterns, batch job flow failures, and throughput/performance degradation
• Experience with job throughput optimization, engine performance tuning, JVM tuning and memory management, high availability and failover orchestration, and monitoring dashboards for proactive detection
• An understanding of AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance sizing, Operating System (OS) tuning, storage Input/Output (I/O) patterns, file transfer endpoints, routing, firewall coordination, network path debugging, and Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate lifecycle management
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows
• Compliance, audit, and partner governance knowledge
• Infrastructure as code experience (Ansible and Terraform)
• A strong 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 (Scrum and Kanban) and JIRA
• Strong documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks
• An ability to work collaboratively with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless production system operations

Professional Certifications

EDIFECS certification

Years of Professional Experience

10+ years of experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations, software or data engineering with strong AWS experience

Desired experience

Deep hands-on EDIFECS experience in Electronic Data Interchange X.12 (EDI) Transactions Standards involving key X12 workflows involving the following transactions:

• X.12 medical claims (837, 834, 277, etc)
• 270/271 and 278 transactions

Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture

Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations

Requirements

AWS certification in a bonus

Formal Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Citizenship Requirement

U.S. Citizenship required for this specific opportunity

Security Clearance Requirements

Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI)

CRITICAL NOTES

• SSG will not make assumptions regarding your qualifications. Your answers to the mandatory screening questions must be supported by the information on your resume. Applications with inconsistencies will not be considered.
• Recruiters or Third parties will not be considered.
• This is a 100% U.S. based remote position. However, candidates from CA, CO, IL, MN, NJ, NY, OR, or WA will not be considered.
• This is a W-2 position
• All interviews will be conducted on Microsoft Teams with your camera on; there will be no exceptions
• As part of our screening process, you will be requested to provide a link to your LinkedIn profile

U.S. Citizenship is required for this specific opportunity. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance. Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.