Administer, configure, troubleshoot, and enhance the Edifecs platform for reliable EDI transaction processing. The role develops processing rules, routing logic, and batch workflows; resolves mapping, validation, performance, and integration issues; manages JVM, certificates, logging, deployments, upgrades, and AWS environments; and supports high availability, monitoring, compliance, and partner governance. The engineer collaborates with analysts, DevSecOps, cloud teams, and business stakeholders while documenting architecture and translating reporting requirements.
The SW Engineer Principal (Edifecs Application Engineer) administers, configures, troubleshoots, and enhances the Edifecs platform, ensuring reliable and compliant EDI transaction processing. This is a 100% Remote role.
Job Description
- Configure and maintain XEServer, XEngine, TPM, SpecBuilder, and related modules.
- Build, deploy, and optimize 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.
Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline required; equivalent practical experience considered.
- EDIFECS certification.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of Edifecs product experience in EDI, healthcare, or enterprise application operations.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software or data engineering with strong AWS experience.
- Strong knowledge of Edifecs architecture and transaction lifecycles.
- Strong experience in AWS cloud environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Requirements
Core Technical
- Deep hands-on Edifecs experience in EDI X12 Transactions Standards involving key X12 workflows with 270/271, 278, 834, 837, 835, 999 and other X12 transactions.
- 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, reprocessing)
- SpecBuilder (IG definitions, map development)
- Experience with EDI integration and Interface Management of all technical aspects of inbound/outbound connectivity, consistent with the following:
- AS2, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS channels
- 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.
- Understanding AWS EC2 instance sizing, OS tuning, storage I/O patterns, file transfer endpoints, routing, firewall coordination, network path debugging, SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management.
- Proficient with Git and GitHub — branching strategies, pull requests, collaborative workflows.
- Compliance, audit, and partner governance knowledge.
- Infrastructure as code experience (Ansible, Terraform)
Process & Soft Skills
- 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.
- Comfortable driving ambiguous architecture decisions to resolution with limited direction.
- Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and JIRA.
- Strong documentation habits — architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, migration runbooks.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in cloud data architecture
- Experience with healthcare payer/PBM systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations.
- AWS certification is a bonus.
Clearance Requirement: US Citizenship required with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
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