Location: Hybrid - Jacksonville
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8-5
Summary:This role will be responsible for managing the IBM Sterling B2Bi platform to ensure the secure and efficient flow of electronic data between trading partners.
Essential Responsibilities: - Participate in the daily team stand-up to provide update on the assigned projects
- Support B2B developers on complex partner onboarding
- Investigate external communication issues (SFTP, AS2 or HTTPS) with trading partners
- Troubleshoot B2Bi operational problems and restore the services to normal state
- Actively monitor Sterling business processes and adapters ensuring a 24/7 state of operational readiness
- Apply system patches, and upgrade the Sterling B2Bi and Lightwell software as needed
- Ensure data security by managing user accounts and permissions for Sterling servers and Lightwell
- Collaborate with Server team on Linux upgrades
- Support B2B application during off-hours
- Support Disaster Recovery and periodic Sterling maintenance windows
- Other duties as assigned
Required Minimum Experience and Education:- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- 5 years of administration experience managing IBM Sterling B2B integrator
- 3 years of experience with B2Bi, Lightwell, and IBM Secure Proxy Implementation, upgrade, and patching on Linux platform
- 3 years of experience monitoring overall EDI activities with reports and statistics
- 1 year experience with UNIX and/or LINUX
Preferred Experience and Education:- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university
- 6 months experience in Supply Chain Logistics
- 6 months experience in Java/J2EE programming
- 1 year experience with IBM Sterling Integrator cluster setups
- 1 year experience with Sterling B2B Integrator BP and mapping stack
- 1 year experience with XPath, XSLT, SOAP, REST, SQL
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:- Excellent analytical skills and strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to develop complex systems with minimal supervision
- Ability to mentor the other developers on B2B team
- Ability to identify multiple ways to deliver technical solutions and articulate relative strengths and weaknesses of the choices
- Ability to collaborate effectively with IT and business partners
- Ability to assess and tune application performance and system health
- Proficient skills managing system load performance and B2Bi queue management
- Proficient skills with Microsoft SQL Server, and Database technologies
- Proficient skills with B2B design patterns, architecture and integration technologies that go beyond point-to-point integrations and allow for more reuse and flexibility
- Strong knowledge of B2B/EDI terminology & standards (X12, EDI, XML, JSON)
- Knowledge of Agile development practices
- Good understanding of the customer integration testing
