Amazon’s Transportation EDI team aims to automate all transactions with its global partners. The Transportation EDI team meets this critical role by maintaining the EDI technical standards, identifying integration solutions to business needs and constantly improving the effectiveness of our processes. The EDI Engineer partners with Amazon business teams and partners worldwide to identify new offerings and continuously improve the EDI integration process, current offerings and data quality. Additional tasks include maintenance of the Amazon EDI specifications, mapping and partner configurations. The scope of this role includes both operational support as well as new implementation development.
To be successful, this candidate requires mastery of proven problem solving, communication and leadership skills. The ability to coordinate efforts across multiple teams (collaborating with both technical and business) is key to this position. You will be able to manage communication and navigate time zones in a 24/7 production environment across an international team. You will be able to participate in rotating on-call duties and operational defect management for high volume EDI and API traffic.
- 2+ years of professional work experience
- Experience with some of the common integration standards and protocols – AS2, SFTP, HTTPS, API/OAuth, etc.
- Experience with at least one EDI mapping software implementation such as Gentran, Sterling, Contivo, etc.
- Experience with EDIFACT standards, ideally including documents such as IFTMIN, INVOIC, IFTSTA or other logistics/supply chain documents
- Experience with ANSI X12 standards, ideally including documents such as 215, 210, 214 or other logistics/supply chain documents