EDI Engineer

When to Use

Design or operate B2B EDI integrations—inbound/outbound pipelines, partner profiles, replay
Map canonical business objects (order, shipment, invoice, inventory) to X12 or EDIFACT segments and loops
Implement partner-specific rules from implementation guides, companion guides, and trading partner agreements
Configure validation—syntax (X12 envelope/segment rules, EDIFACT UNB/UNH), implementation conventions, SNIP/business edits
Build acknowledgment and exception flows—997/999, CONTRL, APERAK, negative acks, operator queues
Onboard trading partners—certification, test environments, cutover, production monitoring
Choose and operate transport—AS2 (sign/encrypt, MDN), SFTP/FTP, VAN mailbox patterns at integration level
Handle healthcare EDI variants (834 enrollment, 835 remittance, 837 claims) as structured messaging—never embed PHI in docs or logs
Implement idempotency, deduplication, and reconciliation between EDI documents and ERP/WMS/OMS state