Senior EDI & ERP Integration Analyst

EDI Specialists, Inc.; Ela Township (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

First Roles seeks an EDI & EDI Integration Analyst to administer and improve EDI and ERP integrations, ensuring reliable data exchanges with customers, suppliers, and partners using ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XML mappings, and SQL transformations.

You will work with IT and business teams to implement ERP enhancements in Plex, test changes, document procedures, and drive continuous improvement across data flows, interfaces, and reporting. Some after-hours support may be required.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of ERP, EDI, SQL, XML, data integration, and databases.
• Strong knowledge of EDI processing, mapping, acknowledgments, and partner onboarding.
• Advanced EDI formats and standards: ANSI X12 and EDIFACT.
• Experience with XML structures, schemas, validation, parsing, and data transformation.
• SQL programming and relational databases experience.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to work evenings or weekends when required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze EDI requirements and support configuration, testing, debugging, documentation, modification, and implementation of EDI processes.
• Design, configure, test, maintain, and troubleshoot EDI maps and transaction flows.
• Support EDI transactions using ANSI X12 and EDIFACT standards.
• Develop, maintain, and validate XML-based messages, schemas, mappings, and data transformations.
• Establish, maintain, and troubleshoot communication links with customers, suppliers, trading partners, VAN providers, and other external systems.
• Monitor EDI transmissions, acknowledgments, errors, and exceptions to ensure timely and accurate data exchange.
• Investigate and resolve EDI failures, rejected transactions, mapping issues, connectivity problems, and data discrepancies.
• Coordinate EDI activities with customers, suppliers, trading partners, internal departments, and external service providers.
• Review EDI processes periodically to ensure that business and customer requirements are being met.
• Identify opportunities to improve EDI reliability, automation, processing time, data quality, and operational efficiency.
• Manage EDI projects from requirements definition through implementation, testing, documentation, and production deployment.
• Implement new EDI transactions, trading partners, software, and customer requirements through established change control processes.
• Create and maintain EDI procedures, mapping documentation, technical specifications, test plans, support instructions, and process documentation.
• Provide guidance, training, and education to employees regarding EDI standards, transaction flows, business requirements, and system capabilities.
• Remain current with developments in EDI standards, XML technologies, integration tools, and VAN services.
• Work closely with customer service, operations, purchasing, finance, sales, and administrative teams to develop, test, and improve EDI processes.
• Support customer order processing, shipping, invoicing, accounts receivable, and other EDI-related business processes.

Skills

EDI standards

SQL programming

XML

Data mapping

Integration testing

ERP integration

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Plex ERP

Job description

First Roles seeks an EDI & EDI Integration Analyst to administer and improve EDI and ERP integrations, ensuring reliable data exchanges with customers, suppliers, and partners using ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XML mappings, and SQL transformations.

You will work with IT and business teams to implement ERP enhancements in Plex, test changes, document procedures, and drive continuous improvement across data flows, interfaces, and reporting. Some after-hours support may be required.