Remote Edifecs Engineer | AWS & EDI Specialist

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is hiring an Edifecs Application Engineer for a fully remote position supporting the Veterans Affairs department. The role requires EDIFECS expertise, strong AWS experience, and solid communication with stakeholders.

You will work with EDI, API integrations, and cloud-based architectures to ensure secure, compliant data exchange. You will configure and optimize Edifecs components, participate in deployments, and collaborate across DevOps, security, and business teams.

Qualifications

• 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, SpecBuilder, and related modules.
• Experience with EDI integration and interface management (AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS).
• Proficiency with API-based integrations and gateway services.
• Experience with EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Job throughput optimization, engine performance tuning, JVM tuning and memory management.
• AWS EC2 sizing, OS tuning, storage I/O patterns, network routing, SSL/TLS management.
• Git and GitHub collaboration workflows.
• Compliance, audit and partner governance knowledge.
• Infrastructure as code (Ansible and Terraform).
• Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Translate business reporting requirements into data models.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and JIRA.
• Strong documentation habits (diagrams, data dictionaries, runbooks).
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams for production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, troubleshoot, and enhance the Edifecs platform for reliable EDI processing.
• Configure and maintain Edifecs components (XEServer, XEngine, TPM, SpecBuilder).
• Build, deploy, and optimize Edifecs processing rules and batch workflows.
• Analyze mapping issues, validation failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage JVM tuning, logging, and certificate configurations.
• Support release deployments, environment refreshes, patches, and upgrades.
• Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps, Cloud and business teams.

Skills

EDIFECS platform expert

AWS cloud experience

Stakeholder communication

Agile methodologies

Security/compliance knowledge

Git/GitHub

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience considered

Tools

Edifecs XEServer

Edifecs XEngine

TPM

SpecBuilder

EDI Gateway

JVM tuning

AWS EC2

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is hiring an Edifecs Application Engineer for a fully remote position supporting the Veterans Affairs department. The role requires EDIFECS expertise, strong AWS experience, and solid communication with stakeholders.

You will work with EDI, API integrations, and cloud-based architectures to ensure secure, compliant data exchange. You will configure and optimize Edifecs components, participate in deployments, and collaborate across DevOps, security, and business teams.