B2B Integration Specialist II

Because this position requires regular on-site work at our Creative Studios in Westlake, Ohio, we will focus on candidates who currently reside in Northeast Ohio.

Remote work and relocation assistance are NOT available for this role.

The Senior B2B Integration Specialist works with the B2B team at AGWHQ to support and develop integration pathways between AG and its business partners, retailers and vendors. They are responsible for configuration and support of the IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway platform to deliver automated and reliable integration solutions.

This individual will have highly developed problem solving and analytical skills, be able to deliver technical documentation and communicate and coordinate with business partners and other technical teams to insure appropriate integration of processes across the organization.

The Senior B2B Integration Specialist will support production integrations and B2B/EDI jobs during their working hours.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Develop, deploy and support IBM Sterling B2B Integrator business processes (BPML), services, adapters and configurations.
• Develop, deploy and support Sterling File Gateway partners, templates, routes and custom file protocols
• Support data transfer protocols such as AS2, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, ALE
• Incident resolution and troubleshooting
• Perform unit testing of changes in development environments including regression testing
• Coordinate end to end testing of changes in development and staging environments.
• Provide capability reviews, protoctypes and implementation of new functionality based on business needs

Develop detailed functional and technical specifications for changes

Required Length & Type of Experience:
• 5+ years of experience working with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Experience working with web services, XML, API
• Experience with developing custom protocols in File Gateway
• Experience with business process development, BPML, XML, XPATH, XSLT
• Experience with file transfer protocols SFTP, FTP, AS2, ALE
• Experience with MSSQL queries
• Ability to engage with internationally distributed development teams.
• Ability to create and meet timelines cognizant of business needs and constraints.
• Highly self-motivated, driven work ethic, keen attention to detail and exceptional customer service orientation.
• Strong communication skills including ability to communicate in an understandable manner to non-technical audiences for support and troubleshooting activities.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to perform system analysis and draw conclusions by relating information from different sources, including root-cause analysis and issue resolution.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or equivalent.

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