Remote Edifecs Platform Lead - Senior Systems Engineer

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the Edifecs platform operations in a remote setting supporting the VA. You will own architecture decisions, drive roadmap execution, and collaborate with product, architecture, and security teams to ensure scalable, secure healthcare data flows.

Ideal candidates have deep Edifecs experience, strong AWS skills, and a proven ability to optimize EDI processing, JVM tuning, and cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of EDIFECS architecture and transaction lifecycles.
• Strong AWS cloud experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Hands-on platform architecture and operational behavior across Edifecs components.

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 architecture

AWS cloud

Communication

Platform architecture

EDI domain knowledge

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

XEServer

XEngine

TPM

EDI Gateway

SpecBuilder

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the Edifecs platform operations in a remote setting supporting the VA. You will own architecture decisions, drive roadmap execution, and collaborate with product, architecture, and security teams to ensure scalable, secure healthcare data flows.

Ideal candidates have deep Edifecs experience, strong AWS skills, and a proven ability to optimize EDI processing, JVM tuning, and cloud deployments.