Job Description
Senior Role Description Experience:5-8 Years The Senior EDI Onboarding Resource / Senior EDI Engineer is responsible for the technical ownership, design, and governance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integrations with customers and business partners in EDIFACT, ANSiX12 or TRADACOM Standard. Mattel operates an IBM iSeries (AS/400) system as its ERP backend. EDI data exchange is managed via the external EDI service provider OpenText (GXS), which exchanges APRF and SNRF files in UTF-8 format with the ERP system. In this senior role, the EDI Engineer leads the design and implementation of complex EDI solutions in close collaboration with OpenText and internal stakeholders, Mattel Global EDI Delivery Manager. Responsibilities include defining technical EDI architecture, designing, and reviewing EDI mappings, managing, and validating mapping requests, coordinating, and executing integration and partner testing, and ensuring stable and compliant production deployments. The Senior EDI Engineer acts as a technical escalation point for complex EDI issues, drives continuous improvement of EDI processes and standards, and provides technical guidance and mentoring to junior EDI resources. Requirements Extensive, hands-on experience with EDI standards and architectures, including ANSI X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, and XML-based industry standards, across multiple versions and complex, partner-specific implementations - globally. Deep technical understanding of EDI message structures, including envelopes, segments, elements, qualifiers, control numbers, acknowledgements, and compliance validation. Understood the EDI Partner Setup Profile creation on iSeries Backend to extract and upload EDI Transactions. Expert knowledge of EDI communication protocols and security concepts, including AS2, X.400, FTP, SFTP, certificates, encryption, and secure data transmission, with practical experience in UNIX / iSeries environments. Strong expertise in character encoding, file formats, and data
