What are the responsibilities and job description for the EDI Engineer- Hybrid Montana/Texas position at Conexess Group?
Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for an EDI Engineer in a hybrid capacity. This is a long-term contract opportunity with a competitive compensation package.
**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.**
We are seeking an EDI Specialist Engineer to design, develop, enhance, and support EDI applications, integrations, and data exchange processes. This role will work closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to develop reliable, scalable solutions, improve data integrity, and automate manual processes.
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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5 years of related software development, EDI, integration, or systems support experience.
- Experience developing and supporting EDI transactions and integrations.
- Strong SQL Server / T-SQL experience.
- Experience with APIs, file transfer technologies, and automation platforms.
- Experience with Git/Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with GoAnywhere MFT.
- Healthcare EDI experience, including X12 834, 835, 837, 270/271, or 276/277.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as queues, topics, or Kafka.
- Experience applying GenAI or automation to improve business processes.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum or SAFe environments.