EDI LEAD
Summary
EDI Technical Lead at the IT arm of a freight-forwarding group: drives EDI/B2B integration strategy, stakeholder and partner engagement, and delivers mappings and data flows using Axway B2Bi/Sentinel, SQL, and protocols like AS2/SFTP/REST, handling X12, EDIFACT, JSON, XML and flat files. Hyderabad-based, 8-13 years' experience, general shift with US-time overlap.
Role & responsibilities
Designation/ Title:
EDI Technical Lead
Job Description:
EDI Technical Lead ensures strong business engagement by aligning EDI strategy with organizational goals, advising stakeholders, driving crossfunctional collaboration, managing partner relationships, communicating risks and impacts clearly, and ensuring that EDI solutions consistently deliver measurable business value.
Skill set Required:
- Logistics and Freight forwarder, Supply Chain domain knowledge
- Any B2B Integration Tool (or) Axway B2Bi 2.x.x, Axway Mapping services [DML], Axway Sentinel and SQL
- Communication Protocols & Security: AS2, SFTP/FTP, HTTPS/REST/SOAP
- JSONtoEDI and EDItoJSON transformations.
- Strong SQL skills to query, validate, and analyze data from relational databases.
- Experience with Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum / SAFe) and tools such as Jira, Postman, and SNOW.
Technical Skill Set Required:
- Basic knowledge of EDI [X12, EDIFACT]
- Non-Standard formats [XML, CSV, Flat File]
Verbal / Written Skills Required:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to clearly articulate business logic, Validation rules, elements mapping, and system behavior to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Good presentation skills, provide status updates, summaries to lead.
Teamwork / Adaptability Requirements:
- Strong team player with the ability to collaborate across crossfunctional and geographically distributed teams.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing business priorities, evolving requirements, and tight timelines.
- Comfortable working in a fastpaced Agile environment.
- Proactive, selfdriven, and accountable, with a strong focus on delivery and quality.
- Adjusts quickly to change, stays calm under pressure, and embraces new challenges with a learning mindset.
- Willingness to continuously learn domain, system, and process enhancements related to logistics and freight forwarding.
- Responds constructively to feedback or new directions.
Shift Work / Travel Required:
General shift with overlap with US Time
Experience (Min ~ Max):
8-10 Years
Education Required:
Bachelors Degree or equivalent; preferably in business administration or engineering/science