IT Developer - EDI at UniFirst

As an IT EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Developer, you will be responsible for scoping, analyzing, designing, and executing EDI projects for internal and external customers. You will play a critical role in shaping our EDI strategy, managing projects, onboarding new customers, and trading partners, and continually improving our processes. Working with cross-functional teams across , you'll have the chance to apply your broad experience, business acumen, and passion for EDI and IT technologies. In a highly agile and thriving work environment, you'll take ownership of the EDI projects, drive continuous improvements, and ensure the successful implementation of new and existing EDI solutions.

This position requires strong IT, business system analysis, and systems development/design experience. The successful candidate should be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and Support Gentran EDI application on AS/400 system.
• Migrate Gentran customers to new EDI platform.
• Compare and generate new maps for the new EDI Platform.
• Lead EDI onboarding, Production support, EDI monitoring, maintaining, and providing support to all Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) issues.
• Designs, develops, and supports ANSI X12 EDI transactions.
• Consult with stakeholders to determine project scope.
• Work with EDI Customers to validate, test, implement, and maintain EDI transactions.
• Articulates problems and solutions to both internal and external customers
• Analyze operational metrics, identify trends and problem area of responsibility.
• Compare the present state of the business with a conceptual and desired future state and provide gap analysis; recommend process improvements.
• Creates and maintains documentation for all EDI projects and participates in team meetings, conferences, and problem-solving discussions.
• Provide leadership with pros/cons for moving forward with potential development projects.
• Contributes to IT project governance reviews.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Responsible for building a high-performance team.
• Develop excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers.
• Conduct end-to-end testing on applications and technology, to ensure that business, technical, and functional requirements are being met, including the development of test cases, test scripts, and UAT protocols.
• Perform other duties that support the overall objective of the position.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science or 10+ years of hands-on experience in Gentran on AS/400.
• 10+ years of experience as EDI Developer (Gentran AS/400) in Information Systems with a focus on EDI Development.
• Experience with an integration solution, ideally, but not limited to, Gentran, Seeburger, Boomi or new SaaS EDI Platforms.
• Significant experience with SFTP, SOAP, WSDL and REST Web API.
• Experience with ASC X12 4010 standards (850, 856, 810, 812).
• Experience with XML, XSLT, XPath, and JSON.
• Knowledge of EDI Mapping to ERP systems and vice versa
• Good understanding of several functional areas such as Sales, Marketing and Finance.
• Experience with designing and architecting complex enterprise process tools.
• Problem solving, analytical, logic, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with software development life cycles such as Agile or SCRUM.
• Must have experience working on large scale projects, enterprise applications as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business.
• Ability to collaborate horizontally and vertically within an organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations, and procedures to develop effective solutions.
• Overall understanding and knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies (Agile).
• Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time.
• Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Technical Understanding.

Benefits & Perks:

401K with Company Match, Profit Sharing, Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, 30% Employee Discount, Employee Referral Bonuses.

UniFirst is an international leader in garment & Uniform services industry. We currently employ over 14,000 team partners who serve 300,000 business customer locations throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

We were included in the top 10 of Selling Power magazine’s “Best Companies to Sell For” list and recognized on Forbes magazine’s “Platinum 400 – Best Big Companies” list. As an 80-year old company focused on annual growth, there’s never been a better time to join our team. 

UniFirst is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws