Remote Edifecs Platform Lead: Ops & Cloud Scale

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Virginia Beach (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking an Edifecs Platform Operations Lead to drive platform stability and scale within a remote setting. This role leads the Edifecs application support group and partners with product, architecture, and business teams to champion modernization, security, and efficiency across EDI workflows.

Ideal candidates bring deep Edifecs expertise, extensive AWS experience, and strong communication skills to steer complex integrations, mappings, and batch processes in a

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, EDI Gateway, SpecBuilder.
• Experience with EDI integration and interfaces (AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS).
• Experience with EDI troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• JVM tuning, memory management, and high availability experience.
• Git/GitHub proficiency including PR workflows.
• Compliance, audit, and partner governance knowledge.
• Infrastructure as code (Ansible and Terraform).
• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and JIRA.
• Strong documentation habits.

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, TPMs, SpecBuilder, and related modules.
• Guide EDI Analysts with 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, 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.

Skills

Edifecs XEServer

Edifecs XEngine

TPM configuration

EDI Gateway

SpecBuilder

AWS Cloud

JVM tuning

Stakeholder communication

Agile / Jira

Architecture documentation

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Git and GitHub

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking an Edifecs Platform Operations Lead to drive platform stability and scale within a remote setting. This role leads the Edifecs application support group and partners with product, architecture, and business teams to champion modernization, security, and efficiency across EDI workflows.

Ideal candidates bring deep Edifecs expertise, extensive AWS experience, and strong communication skills to steer complex integrations, mappings, and batch processes in a