Description
Amazon’s Global AmazonLink team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive leader to lead our efforts in expanding our integration platform. We are heads down in creating new, efficient processes that help all our external business partners integrate quickly and seamlessly with Amazon. We are creating a world class experience in automating business processes for supply chain and providing seamless integration with any order management system and file format.
Amazon Retail team aims to automate all transactions with its partners globally. The AmazonLink Solutions team plays the most critical role in achieving this goal by maintaining the EDI technical standards, identifying integration needs and constantly improving the effectiveness of our B2B/EDI communications and integrations. Solution architects review system and business process requirements and define integration solutions to automate business process execution. Solution Architects also partners with other Amazon business teams and suppliers worldwide to identify new offerings and continuously improve the B2B/EDI integration process, current offerings, and data quality. Additional tasks include maintenance of the Amazon EDI specifications, mapping and supplier configurations. To be successful, this candidate requires mastery of a variety of proven technical, analytical, communication and leadership skills.
Core Job Responsibilities:
Able to understand the technical solutions implemented for business processes. Perform changes of low & medium complexity.Execute technical task to build solutions. Perform Testing of the solutions.
Work with all other global Amazon business teams to understand their integration requirements and collaborate to build solutions for automation.
Work with vendor managers and drive EDI adoption initiatives for vendors.
Configure APIs, proxy endpoints based on Amazon technical specifications
Strong understanding and experience with security implementations (e.g SSL/mutual SSL, mTLS SAML, Auth, OAuth)
Takes an occasional assignment related to developing and/or reviewing technical collateral, under the guidance of a more senior SA.
Manage integration projects and communicate directly with internal and external company resources. Continuously improve our integration processes and data quality.
Responsible for documentation of business processes, solution templates, system processes and information flow.
Able to do data analysis to back up business decisions, utilizing B2B/EDI function/message to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Support Kaizen activities to apply B2B/EDI and Integrations technology and exchanged information with the vendor to contribute to improve operational efficiency and optimize business procedure.
Deliver timely, accurate and professional technical support and information internally and externally; including real-time support, communication, escalation, reporting, defect tracking and root cause analysis of outage events.
Successful candidates will be able to:
Communicate medium complex issues correctly and clearly to both internal and external customers.
Ability to maintain a good level of attention to detail, work with Sr SA support, and work in a continuously changing environment.
Analytical approach to problem-solving and a track record of driving results through continuous improvement
Able to produce various artifacts like BRD, Design Document, Test Cases, B2B/EDI Specifications, Launch/Cut-over plans, Operations documents.
Quickly learn to write functional design documents, troubleshoot EDI failures, unit testing, and end-end testing methods.
Able to deal with high volume systems and designing solutions for reliability and performance at scale.
Scripting knowledge in one or more technology.
Work efficiently with rotational on-call duties and real-time live-system responsibility.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and understand business requirements.
• Understanding of Agile or other project management methodologies.
• Good communication skills are essential for interacting with different stakeholders, including developers, business analysts, and system architects.
• Good understanding of integration system's architecture, security for external and internal communication.
• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and best practices.
• Knowledge of web services (REST, SOAP), APIs, and other integration protocols.
• Familiarity with message queues and middleware systems.
• Understanding of databases and data modeling.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with EDI communications standards and protocols; AS2, standard VAN-based EDI, FTP, SFTP, HTTPS, and Web services.
• Experience working with ANSI X12 standards, especially V4010 and above, including Order and Financial series documents such as 850, 855, 856, 810 and others.
• Experience working with XML, JSON and other message formats.
• Experience writing functional design documents, create/maintain EDI maps and specifications, troubleshooting complex EDI failures, working with external EDI partners, and testing interconnected systems.
• Technical background in middleware technologies or tools: Contivo, Seeburger, Tibco, GIS, Gentran, TLE, BizTalk etc.
• Experience developing integration interfaces, API and Web services.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $78,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $192,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.