Edifecs Application Engineer

Description

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.

Qualifications

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.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2617838

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