IS Product Support - EDI Specialist

Farrow•North Dumfries, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

A wholly owned subsidiary of Kuehne+Nagel Group, and headquartered in Windsor, Ontario Canada, Farrow brings to the global trade industry over 115 years of expertise in cross-border customs brokerage, trade consulting, and integrated logistics services. Further to its beginnings in customs brokerage, Farrow offers trade consulting — expert advice on import/export and trade management, duty recovery and regulations compliance. With a strong network of locations across North America, Farrow manages over 500 employees with 15 offices and warehouses, including those of acquired company Link+ Corporation. Position Summary The EDI Specialist is responsible for providing direction, development and support of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment at Farrow. They will lead various EDI projects by collaborating with vendors, customers and Farrow Operations and IT team member’s to design and develop EDI solutions to support business strategies and to ensure proper system integration and operation. The EDI Specialist will possess a strong working knowledge and technical expertise in EDI concepts and tools which, combined with related project management and business aptitude will result in best in class EDI solutions.

Requirements

University Degree or College Diploma in Computer Science or relevant work experience
Minimum 3 years EDI development and support
Use of 3rd party EDI translation tools, preferably Altova XML Spy and Map Force.
Extensive knowledge of databases, tables and SQLqueries with understanding of mapping and supporting EDI, ANSI, X12 and EDIFACT standards and well as XML and flat file schemas
Working knowledge of AS2, FTP/SFTP protocols and Value added Networks
Set up and management of trading partner profiles
EDI operations support experience
Programming skills in JAVA/PYTHON
Experience with development using XSLT.
Working knowledge of UNIX, LINUX or OS/400 operating systems

Nice To Haves

Application development background an asset
Experience with Microsoft Azure would be an asset

Responsibilities

Test, implement and maintain all EDI transactions and file problems
Develop and maintain trading partner definitions to include relevant translation objects utilizing EDI translation software tools
Handle communications with trading partners for EDI transaction set up and ongoing maintenance
Coordinate between trading partners and networks to ensure mapping compliance
Develop new business opportunities utilizing EDI
Resolve technical mapping variations or gaps
Trouble shoot issues in production environment
Develop guidelines, checklists, procedures, and training documentation
Communicate at the appropriate level with team members, management and end users.
Interact with clients and outside vendors/consultants in a professional and knowledgeable manner
Monitor the daily processing of EDI transactions