Company: Optimas Solutions
Position:Senior EDI Programmer – Full Time

Experience: 8–12+ Years

Location: Pune (Hybrid)

Optimas is a global industrial distributor and supply chain solutions provider specializing in fasteners, components, inventory management, and engineering services. Operating across North America, Europe, and Asia, Optimas enables manufacturers to optimize supply chains through technology-driven solutions.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Full Stack Java Developer who can contribute across backend, frontend, database, DevOps, and production support functions while helping drive modernization initiatives across enterprise applications.

The Senior EDI Programmerwill be responsible for leading, managing, and optimizing the organization's Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) ecosystem, integrations, and related business processes. This role will oversee EDI operations, project delivery, change management initiatives, partner onboarding, and integration strategies across customers, suppliers, logistics providers, and internal business applications. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in IBM Sterling, Gata Integration Platform, NetSuite, SQL, and integration technologies, along with proven leadership and project management capabilities.

EDI Strategy & Operations

• Lead the design, implementation, support, and continuous improvement of EDI processes and integrations across the enterprise.
• Day-to-day EDI operations, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance of EDI transactions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and third-party partners to define EDI requirements and solutions.
• Establish and maintain EDI standards, governance, documentation, and best practices.
• Monitor transaction flows, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely resolution of production incidents.

EDI Project & Process Management

• Lead end-to-end EDI implementation projects, including partner onboarding, migration, enhancement, and modernization initiatives.
• Develop project plans, timelines, resource allocation, risk mitigation strategies, and status reporting.
• Manage multiple concurrent EDI and integration projects while ensuring delivery within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
• Coordinate testing activities, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment, and post-implementation support.

Change Management

• Serve as a key leader in organizational and technical change management activities.
• Evaluate change requests, conduct impact assessments, and implement controlled deployment processes.
• Develop communication, training, and adoption strategies for new EDI and integration solutions.
• Ensure proper governance and compliance throughout the change lifecycle.
• Maintain change documentation, release schedules, and stakeholder communications.

Integration & Application Management

• Design, develop, and support integrations between EDI platforms and enterprise applications.
• Manage custom integration solutions involving ERP, warehouse, logistics, and business systems.
• Support integration architecture leveraging APIs, file-based integrations, and middleware technologies.
• Ensure seamless data exchange between NetSuite and external/internal systems.
• Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable integration solutions.

• Act as the primary point of contact for EDI partners, vendors, and service providers.
• Manage relationships with software vendors and integration partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, and IT.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to EDI analysts, developers, and support personnel.

• Education:Bachelor's degree from a recognized university or accredited institution.
• Work Experience:8+ years of professional experience in EDI, enterprise integrations, and business applications, with progressive responsibility in implementation, support, and operational leadership.
• Proven expertise in managing enterprise-scale EDI environments, including trading partner onboarding, transaction processing, and integration platform administration.
• Strong track record of leading EDI transformation initiatives, system implementations, migrations, upgrades, and production support activities.
• Hands-on experience driving organizational and technical change management processes, including impact assessment, release planning, deployment, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience supporting global EDI operations and collaborating with customers, suppliers, logistics providers, and cross-functional business teams.
• Solid understanding of cloud integration platforms, API-based architectures, and modern system connectivity frameworks.
• Knowledge of business process automation, workflow orchestration, and integration are the best practices.
• Experience in system monitoring, performance optimization, incident management, and operational excellence initiatives.
• IBM Sterling certifications such as IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Integrator Administration, Sterling B2B Integrator Implementation, and Sterling File Gateway Administration are highly desirable

EDI Platforms

• Strong hands-on experience with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and related Sterling components.
• Deep understanding of EDI standards including X12, EDIFACT, XML, JSON, and flat-file integrations.
• Experience with AS2, SFTP, FTP, VAN, and API-based communication methods.

Integration Technologies

• Hands-on experience with ETL/Data integration platform.
• Experience designing and supporting custom integrations between enterprise systems.
• Knowledge of API integrations, middleware platforms, and data transformation techniques.

ERP Systems

• Experience integrating and supporting NetSuite ERP environments.
• Understanding