B2B / EDI Integration Engineer — Axway B2Bi & IBM Ecommerce

Overview

Unsere Arbeit bei Lilly ist anspruchsvoll, weil Patienten unsere Medikamente benötigen. Mit unserer Forschungsarbeit verfolgen wir das Ziel, das Leben von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt besser zu machen. Dabei ist uns bewusst, dass jede Entscheidung, jedes Detail und jeder Tag zählt. Unser Hauptsitz befindet sich in Indianapolis im US-Bundesstaat Indiana. Mit über 50.000 Mitarbeitern auf der ganzen Welt stellen wir uns komplexen Herausforderungen, um bahnbrechende Medikamente zu entwickeln und auf den Markt zu bringen, unsere Kenntnisse über Gesundheit und die Behandlung von Krankheiten zu verbessern und Patienten zu unterstützen. Dies ist eine intensive, vordringliche und aufopferungsvolle, aber dennoch erfüllende Tätigkeit. Wenn du motiviert und bereit bist, dein Bestes für eine Aufgabe zu geben, die für Patienten wirklich zählt, würden wir uns freuen, dich in unserem Team willkommen zu heißen.

Lilly’s Purpose

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

The Enterprise Data Platforms Organization enables the business functions with an integrated and intuitive Enterprise platform services in the field of Databases, Integrations, Data Movement and Analytical Platform services.

Role Summary:

Owns Lilly's B2B/EDI trading-partner integration platforms and administer — Axway B2Bi and IBM Ecommerce — ensuring reliable, compliant movement of transactional data between Lilly and its external partners, distributors and suppliers. This role restores and sustains service capability for partner-facing integrations, closing a critical skills gap in EDI standards and B2B protocol support.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Axway B2Bi and IBM Ecommerce platforms, including partner community configuration, translation maps, and message routing.
• Onboard new trading partners: configure AS2/OFTP2/SFTP connections, validate EDI envelopes (X12, EDIFACT), and certify test transactions before go-live.
• Monitor B2B transaction flows end-to-end; triage and resolve failed or delayed EDI transactions within SLA.
• Maintain translation/mapping logic for purchase orders, invoices, ASNs, and other standard EDI document types.
• Partner with upstream application teams (order management, supply chain, finance) to troubleshoot data integration issues across the B2B layer.
• Support platform patching, certificate renewals, and DR/failover testing for both platforms.
• Document partner configurations, runbooks, and standard operating procedures per Lilly IT standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation for partner-integration incidents.
• 5+ years' experience administering or developing on Axway B2Bi (or equivalent B2B integration platform) and IBM Ecommerce.
• Working knowledge of IBM Ecommerce/Sterling-type B2B/order-integration platforms.
• Hands-on experience with EDI standards (X12 and/or EDIFACT) and B2B transport protocols (AS2, OFTP2, SFTP).
• Experience with trading-partner onboarding and certification processes.
• Familiarity with XML/flat-file translation and mapping tools.
• Strong incident troubleshooting skills in a 24×7 production environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, incident-driven environment.
• Team player with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.
• Willingness to work in shifts/on-call rotations as required by business needs.
• Understanding ITIL processes — Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work under pressure during production incidents.
• Exposure to adjacent Data Movement technologies (IBM MQ, Aspera) for cross-team collaboration.
• Scripting skills (Shell, Python) for automation of partner onboarding or monitoring tasks.
• Experience in a regulated/pharma environment with change-control and audit requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• IBM Certified Data Movement tools & platforms.

Required Qualifications:

What Success Looks Like:

Partner transaction failures are resolved within SLA, new trading-partner onboarding time is reduced, and B2B/EDI knowledge is no longer a single-person dependency on the team.

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Lilly setzt sich dafür ein, dass Menschen mit Behinderungen aktiv am Arbeitsleben teilnehmen und bei der Bewerbung um eine Stelle die gleichen Chancen haben.  Wenn für dich Anpas