Senior Systems Engineer

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for a Remote role within the Veterans Affairs department. The role requires deep Edifecs expertise, strong AWS experience, and proven ability to lead platform architecture and operations.

You will guide engineers, coordinate with vendors and business teams, and ensure scalable, compliant healthcare data integrations. The position is full-time, remote in the United States, with a public trust level requirement and a salary range of

Qualifications

• Extensive Edifecs platform knowledge and EDI lifecycle experience.
• Hands-on AWS cloud experience, including EC2 sizing and OS tuning.
• Strong communication with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Edifecs modules (XEServer, XEngine, TPM, SpecBuilder).
• IaC experience with Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Act as Edifecs Platform Manager, ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance.
• Provide technical oversight, manage staffing, and drive roadmap execution.
• Partner with product, architecture, vendor, and business teams.
• Guide architecture decisions, modernization, cloud scalability, and performance strategies.
• Configure and maintain Edifecs modules and TPMs.
• Guide EDI Analysts with rule-building, routing, and batch workflows.
• Analyze and resolve mapping issues, validation failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage JVM tuning, logging, and certificate configurations.
• Support deployments, environment refreshes, patches, and upgrades.
• Collaborate with EDI Analysts, DevSecOps, Cloud teams, and business teams.

Skills

AWS cloud environments

Communication

Agile methodologies

Documentation

Architecture decision communication

Tools

Edifecs XEServer

Edifecs XEngine

TPM

EDI Gateway

SpecBuilder

IaC: Ansible

IaC: Terraform

Job description

**Syms Strategic Group (SSG)**is seeking a talented Senior Systems Engineer Location: Remote Department: Veterans Affairs (VA) Type: Full Time Min. Experience: Experienced Security Clearance Level: Public Trust (MBI) Salary Range: $109,623 - $126,790

Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply!

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)
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