Edifecs Application Engineer

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