Integration Engineer

The Company

Founded in 1955, Yusen Logistics is a global supply chain logistics company that provides ocean and air freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution services, and supply chain management – a seamlessly connected suite of supply chain solutions that delivers superior value, reliability, and expertise. Yusen Logistics is committed to developing employees that deliver consistent quality and service to our customers, and providing them with the skills, training, support, and opportunities they need to be successful. As a company we’re dedicated to a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring everyone who works with us is committed, connected and creative in making us the world’s preferred choice.

About IT At Yusen

It’s an exciting time to join us as we’re transforming the way we deliver IT at Yusen Logistics (Europe). Digitalization, innovation and taking our IT to the next level will be core to our future success, and we’re on a journey to create one European IT organization to take on this challenge. We’re bringing together our talented IT professionals from 12 counties as one team. They’ll be working beyond geographic boundaries, with clear technical career paths and great development opportunities. Our people are the energy behind our IT and we’re committed to making IT a great place to work for everyone. Could you play a part in helping us to achieve our ambitions?

About the Opening:

This role is responsible for the design, development, documentation and support of custom Integration solutions, and for constructing general software solutions both individually and as part of a team.

Duties And Responsibilities:

Technical Customer Support:

• Monitoring and support of Yusen’s EDI applications, ensuring they are responding to requests in a timely manner. Where appropriate taking responsibility for managing the requests.
• Ensuring a professional and effective service with customers and vendors to rectify service incidents.
• Manage priorities according to agreed SLA’s, escalating any potential or realized delays at the earliest opportunity.
• Troubleshooting integrations to determine and fix root cause.
  
  
  

Solution Design:

• Accurately evaluate customer EDI requests for data mapping, transformation, and applicable business logic.
• Apply knowledge of alternative EDI standards to create the optimal solution.
• Document agreed solution.
  
  
  

Development:

• Overseeing the Mapping, configuration, and testing of B2B communications using incumbent tools and applications.
  
  
  

Project Management:

• Support the B2B integration from design through to implementation and support.
• Create test plans and agree go live criteria.
  
  
  

Employee Procedures/Training:

• Provide appropriate levels of documentation to share the knowledge of the integrations and workflows you have designed and managed.
• All HR Policies and procedures are strictly adhered to. Recruitment and selection and training and development of YLUK employees to proactively lead the site team by example
• Ensure all Company procedures, including absence, performance, etc are managed and adhered to
• Identify and recommend subordinate training requirements. Train and develop Managers to maximize their potential and identify ‘future leaders’
  
  
  

QUALIFICATONS:

Required Level Of Education

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or the relevant hands-on experience.
  
  
  

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum two years of hands-on experience with data integration, API integration code development and complex integration projects.
• Design and implementation experience with one or more of the integration technologies (Lobster, Mulesoft, Pentaho, SSIS, Data Stage, Informatica, Kafka, Boomi).
• ERP experience with expertise in Integration and EDI operations.
• Experience with utilizing EDI standards such as Sap iDocs, EDIFACT, flat file.
• Skilled in the production of scope and functional specification documents.
• Experience of creating and executing test scripts.
• Experience with information security from a systems development perspective (OWASP, encryption, etc.).
• Experience with C#, Java, Powershell, AWS, or Azure cloud environments, Windows environments, Git, and relevant IDE’s (Visual Studio, Code, etc.)
  
  
  

Required Skills

• An understanding of https-based communications and modern API design, protocols and technologies.
• Knowledge of standard connection protocols including AS2, FTP, SFTP, FTPS
• Knowledge of web security principals and mitigation for common vulnerabilities.
• SQL knowledge a benefit
• At ease working under pressure to cost and time deadlines
• iSeries (as400) knowledge a benefit, but not essential.
  
  
  

COMPETENCIES:

Connected

• Relays information clearly, concisely, and accurately
• Is receptive to new ideas and different approaches to the work at hand.
• Remains calm and professional when dealing with difficult customer situations.
  
  
  

Committed

• Consistently delivers dependable, quality outcomes.
• Networks with others outside of the team to achieve results; shares best practices.
• Never gives up; overcomes challenges and remains motivated.
  
  
  

Creative

• Gathers and checks relevant information to solve problems.
• Proactively participates in a variety of training and professional development opportunities.
• Is a self-starter that takes initiative.
  
  
  

What we offer.

A unique opportunity to engage, drive and develop yourself in a global company. This role comes with a great deal of freedom, responsibilities and challenges. Naturally we offer a competitive salary and benefits.

Diversity Statement.

At Yusen we are committed to fostering a working environment that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) for all our employees and stakeholders. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. Benefiting from creative solution derived as a result of embracing differences. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment.

This Is How It Works

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Meet potential team members in a friendly interview.

As part of our assessment process (if applicable), complete an assessment to gauge your skills and abilities.

Final stage: negotiate terms, sign, and welcome onboard!