Principal Software Systems Engineer - Edifecs & AWS (Remote)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Software Systems Engineer Principal for a 100% remote position focused on Veterans Affairs workloads. You will lead the Edifecs platform management, ensuring operational stability, scalability, and compliance while driving roadmap execution in AWS environments.

The role requires 10+ years in EDI or enterprise applications with strong Edifecs expertise, SQL and JVM tuning, and proven ability to communicate architecture decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Act as Edifecs Platform Manager ensuring stability, scalability, compliance, and roadmap alignment.
• Provide technical oversight, manage staffing, and drive roadmap execution.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams.
• Guide architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies.
• Configure and maintain Edifecs components (XEServer, XEngine, TPMs, SpecBuilder).
• Guide EDI Analysts with building and optimizing Edifecs processing rules and workflows.
• Analyze and resolve mapping issues, validation failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage JVM tuning, logging, and SSL/certificates; support deployments and upgrades.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps, Cloud teams, and business units.

Skills

AWS cloud

Edifecs architecture

EDI/AS2/eDI

JVM tuning

Incident management

Documentation

Architecture decisions

Cloud security

Git/GitHub

Terraform

Ansible

JIRA

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Edifecs XEServer

Edifecs XEngine

TPM

Edifecs SpecBuilder

AWS EC2

TLS/SSL

Git/GitHub

Terraform

Ansible

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Software Systems Engineer Principal for a 100% remote position focused on Veterans Affairs workloads. You will lead the Edifecs platform management, ensuring operational stability, scalability, and compliance while driving roadmap execution in AWS environments.

The role requires 10+ years in EDI or enterprise applications with strong Edifecs expertise, SQL and JVM tuning, and proven ability to communicate architecture decisions to non-technical stakeholders.