Overview:
This is a hands-on technical role that requires knowledge of EDI and B2B Trading Partner Management, Mapping, and Communication.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, implement, and support B2B integrations using IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (SBI).
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather integration requirements and deliver end-to-end EDI/B2B solutions.
- Create and manage business processes, maps (IBM Mapper), envelopes, and adapters for EDI and non-EDI transactions.
- Onboard and support trading partners for EDI (X12, EDIFACT) and other data formats (XML, CSV, flat .
- Monitor production integrations for performance, failures, and SLA compliance; proactively address issues.
- Perform Sterling Integrator upgrades, patching, and performance tuning.
- Work with security teams to manage certificates, encryption, and secure communications (AS2, SFTP, HTTPS).
- Provide production support, issue troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Setting up and testing Inbound & Outbound EDI trading partners
- Creating and maintaining documentation for maps and process flows
- Understand current EDI solution implementations & provide Level 3 support for Production Environment
- Provide analytical and technical support to internal business and external customers regarding EDI processes
- Monitor Production for proactive maintenance including standard routines such as Security Certificate upgrades, Break fixes, Sustain activities etc.
- Should understand the functional design, gathering requirements and scoping solutions, technical design, requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting and implementing solutions
- Support continuous improvement to solution implementation through analysis of failures and failure modes
Basic Qualifications:
- 6+ years of hands-on technical experience on IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Mapping tool.
- Experience with EDI, B2B system integrations
- Mapping & transformation
- Strong knowledge of EDI Messages, X12, EDIFACT, XML
- Knowledge of communication, authentication and authorization protocols used for AS2, SFTP, MFT, PGP, SSH
- Working collaboratively with others
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed to interface with infrastructure teams, security teams and development teams
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly, even under pressure
Preferred Qualifications:
- IBM Sterling certifications (e.g., IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Sterling B2B Integrator).
- Experience with IBM Control Center, Sterling File Gateway, and Sterling Secure Proxy.
- Knowledge of other B2B integration tools (e.g., Axway, SAP PI/PO, MuleSoft) is a plus.
- Experience in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
- Experience mentoring junior team members or leading small integration teams.
- Supply chain experience with large aerospace OEMs
- Understanding of DNS, TCP / IP protocols, clustering, load balancing, firewalls
- Understanding of SAP ECC Netweaver technologies, i.e. IDOCs, partner profiles, tRFCs, SAP ALE
- Highly analytical and focused on continuous improvement
- Understanding of Azure DevOps, pipelines and deployment
- Communicates effectively, manages multiple tasks, and follows through on commitments
Education:
- Bachelors degree or Masters in Information Technology, Computer Science or related technical field preferred with 6+ years of work experience
- Relevant technical certifications a plus