Senior EDI Engineer

About the role

A full-time Senior EDI Engineer position in Colombo, Sri Lanka, within the Information Technology department. The role owns the end-to-end design, development and maintenance of EDI parsers and generators, leads production troubleshooting and sets engineering standards, while mentoring engineers and sharing AI practices.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design, development and maintenance of EDI parsers and generators across EDIFACT, ANSI X12, XML, JSON and flat-file formats.
• Lead production troubleshooting by tracing failed messages across transport, parsing, mapping and downstream systems, and implement permanent fixes.
• Translate customer mapping specifications into configuration and code, and validate integrations before go-live.
• Review designs and code from mid-level engineers and set standards for error handling, idempotency, reprocessing and observability.
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot and Cursor for development, testing, documentation and log analysis, and build reusable internal tools for mapping configuration, failure pattern detection and regression tests.
• Validate AI-generated output and remain accountable for the quality of all solutions delivered.
• Improve CI/CD, automated testing, release processes, monitoring and development workflows.
• Mentor engineers in EDI knowledge and share AI prompts, development patterns and guardrails.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Backend, DevOps, Platform teams and customers through integration and go-live.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Management, Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of backend or integration engineering experience, including at least 6 years of hands-on EDI experience.
• Demonstrable experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows, with the ability to assess and verify AI-generated output.
• Strong root-cause analysis, problem-solving, knowledge-sharing and mentoring skills, and the ability to work with customers through to go-live.
• Experience in freight forwarding, 3PL or supply chain environments is preferred.

Required skills

• Deep working knowledge of at least one major EDI standard such as EDIFACT or ANSI X12, with the ability to interpret and troubleshoot raw EDI messages.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Java, Node.js or C#, and strong SQL.
• Integration and transport technologies including AS2, SFTP, REST APIs and message queues.
• An advantage: GitHub Enterprise, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Ansible and AWS-based architectures.

To apply, send your résumé to the company's careers team with the contact details of two non-related references, mentioning the job title in the subject line.