EDI Specialist Engineer

• This Advisor position is opened for an EDI Specialist Engineer.
• Location preferred is either in Missoula, MT or Plano, TX or remote but available to work in Mountain Timezone with the rest of the team.
• The EDI Specialist Engineer would be responsible for the design, development, enhancement, support, and maintenance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) applications, integrations, and data exchange processes that support business operations.
• The position leverages technologies such as GoAnywhere MFT, SQL Server, SSMS, EDI standards, automation tools, scripting languages, and other development platforms to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.
• The EDI Specialist Engineer partners with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, and engineering teams to analyze requirements and translate them into technical solutions that improve operational efficiency and data integrity.
• This role is responsible for designing and developing EDI capabilities, enhancing existing applications, and implementing automation to eliminate repetitive manual processes and improve throughput, quality, and reliability.
• They will be an individual contributor on an agile team undertaking tasks like file error troubleshooting, testing, maintaining and debugging new and current EDI applications.
• An ideal candidate for this position would proactively identify opportunities to modernize and automate EDI processes while ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and organizational standards.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate actively in story grooming, estimation, sprint planning, PI planning, daily standups, sprint demos, and retrospectives to support predictable delivery and team alignment.
• Review and understand low-level designs before implementation, asking clarifying questions to ensure requirements, dependencies, and technical assumptions are well understood.
• Design, develop, enhance, test, deploy, and maintain EDI applications, integrations, automation workflows, and supporting services based on business and technical requirements.
• Develop clean, maintainable, secure, and scalable code that follows established engineering standards, DevOps practices, and quality expectations.
• Schedule and participate in code reviews for each story, incorporating feedback to improve quality, consistency, maintainability, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Diagnose underlying problems related to data integrity.
• Use SQL Server to access information systems to provide information support.
• Meet with end users to discuss the required information to be extracted from the database or source files.
• Design, develop and support a wide variety of information deliverables in both ad-hoc and production fashion.
• Works with database systems to ensure effective data security and integrity are in place at all times.
• Ensures solutions meet business objectives, and establishes and maintains a high level of user trust and confidence in IT’s knowledge of and concern for users’ business needs.
• Proactively researches and locates necessary tools and processes to identify troublesome trends as they develop.
• Makes decisions that are critical in the areas of throughput analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions.
• Participates in various IT projects intended to continually improve and upgrade the EDI infrastructure.
• Analyze existing EDI processes and identify opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks, improve operational efficiency, reduce defects, and increase reliability for business applications (Including base definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements and operational guidelines).
• Contribute to the daily workflow with regular and punctual attendance.
• Performs software and operating system tests.
• Organize files and reference materials.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance engineering practices, application quality, system performance, and team productivity.

Additional Skills:

• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others.
• Ability to project a professional image and positive attitude in any work environment.
• Ability to comply with privacy and confidentiality standards.
• Ability to be flexible, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Working knowledge of general office procedures.
• Working knowledge of SQL server databases and RESTful APIs, Messaging Patterns such as Queues/Topics and/or streaming technologies like Kafka.
• Experience with Transact-SQL
• Experience developing and supporting EDI transactions and integrations.
• Experience with source control systems such as Git/Azure DevOps.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of healthcare EDI standards (X12 834, 835, 837, 270/271, 276/277) preferred.
• Experience with API integrations, file transfer technologies, and automation platforms.
• Knowledge of applying Generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI solutions to analyze,automate, and optimize manual standard operating procedures while maintaining appropriate human oversight, data privacy, security, and compliance controls.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with five years or more of prior work experience.