Role: Senior EDI Architect
Primary platforms: Axway B2Bi, IBM Sterling Integrator, IBM ITXA
Protocols: AS2, SFTP and related B2B protocols
Experience: 10+ years
Custom platform: CIMS
ERP, Business processes: SAP/ECC/S4, JD Edwards, OTC and OTP
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior EDI Architect with more than 10 years of expertise in enterprise B2B/EDI integration, supply chain business processes, and EDI platform architecture. The successful candidate will lead the design, development, modernization, and support of large-scale EDI ecosystems involving Axway B2Bi, IBM Sterling Integrator (SI), IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (ITXA), Java-based integration applications, and the homegrown CIMS orchestration platform.
The role requires strong technical leadership in trading partner onboarding, EDI transformation, secure partner connectivity, orchestration, and end-to-end Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Order-to-Pay (OTP) processes across supply chain environments.
Experience Requirements
10+ years of hands-on experience in EDI/B2B integration architecture, solution design, implementation, and support.
5+ years of experience leading EDI modernization, migration, onboarding, or transformation initiatives.
Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical B2B transaction environments.
Proven ability to work with suppliers, customers, distributors, carriers, logistics providers, 3PL partners, banks, and internal business teams.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture and Solution Design
Define enterprise EDI and B2B integration architecture, standards, reference patterns, and engineering best practices.
Design scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable solutions for a large trading partner ecosystem.
Create reusable onboarding, transformation, routing, exception-handling, monitoring, and recovery patterns.
Lead EDI platform modernization, consolidation, and cloud migration initiatives.
Design hybrid integration solutions using EDI, APIs, event-driven services, messaging, and microservices where appropriate.
Platform Leadership
Provide architectural and technical guidance across Axway B2Bi, IBM Sterling Integrator, IBM ITXA, CIMS, and Java/J2EE-based integration services.
Drive platform governance, capacity planning, performance tuning, availability, security, and operational excellence.
Establish observability practices covering message tracking, logging, alerting, auditability, SLA monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
Trading Partner Management
Lead end-to-end onboarding and lifecycle management for customers, suppliers, carriers, banks, and logistics partners.
Define connectivity, mapping, testing, certification, cutover, validation, and production support standards.
Create reusable partner templates, implementation guides, checklists, and operating procedures.
Collaborate with business teams and external partners to translate requirements into secure, supportable EDI solutions.
Business Process Integration
Order-to-Cash (OTC)
Customer order intake and validation.
Order acknowledgment and exception management.
Fulfillment, warehouse processing, shipping, and delivery notifications.
Invoicing, payment/remittance, returns, and related downstream processing.
Order-to-Pay (OTP)
Supplier ordering and acknowledgment.
Supplier collaboration and advance ship notice processing.
Receiving, invoice validation and matching, and payment/remittance processing.
Exception handling and status visibility across the procurement lifecycle.