CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Senior Role Description
Experience:5-8 Years

The Senior EDI Onboarding Resource / Senior EDI Engineer is responsible for the technical ownership, design, and governance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integrations with customers and business partners in EDIFACT, ANSiX12 or TRADACOM Standard.

Mattel operates an IBM iSeries (AS/400) system as its ERP backend. EDI data exchange is managed via the external EDI service provider OpenText (GXS), which exchanges APRF and SNRF files in UTF-8 format with the ERP system.

In this senior role, the EDI Engineer leads the design and implementation of complex EDI solutions in close collaboration with OpenText and internal stakeholders, Mattel Global EDI Delivery Manager. Responsibilities include defining technical EDI architecture, designing, and reviewing EDI mappings, managing, and validating mapping requests, coordinating, and executing integration and partner testing, and ensuring stable and compliant production deployments.

The Senior EDI Engineer acts as a technical escalation point for complex EDI issues, drives continuous improvement of EDI processes and standards, and provides technical guidance and mentoring to junior EDI resources.

Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on experience with EDI standards and architectures, including ANSI X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, and XML-based industry standards, across multiple versions and complex, partner-specific implementations - globally.
• Deep technical understanding of EDI message structures, including envelopes, segments, elements, qualifiers, control numbers, acknowledgements, and compliance validation.
• Understood the EDI Partner Setup Profile creation on iSeries Backend to extract and upload EDI Transactions.
• Expert knowledge of EDI communication protocols and security concepts, including AS2, X.400, FTP, SFTP, certificates, encryption, and secure data transmission, with practical experience in UNIX / iSeries environments.
• Strong expertise in character encoding, file formats, and data integrity, especially UTF-8, and structured flat-file processing
• Advanced knowledge of standard EDI transaction types, including EDIFACT ORDERS, ORDCHG, DESADV, INVOICE etc. and full understanding of their ANSI X12 equivalents and cross-standard mappings 850, 855, 860, 856, 810.
• Proven experience integrating EDI with ERP backend systems, preferably IBM iSeries / AS400, including high-volume inbound and outbound processing.
• Expert-level experience in EDI mapping design and development, including complex transformations, conditional logic, validations, and error handling.
• Ability to independently interpret and challenge EDI implementation guidelines, trading partner specifications, and business process requirements.
• Strong experience leading end-to-end EDI onboarding projects, including partner coordination, requirement analysis, mapping development, testing strategy, go-live planning, and post-production stabilization.
• Proven capability to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex EDI issues across communication, mapping, application, and data layers.
• Extensive experience working with external EDI service providers and B2B platforms, preferably OpenText (GXS), including governance of mapping requests and service delivery.
• Structured, detail-oriented working style with strong critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external partners.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:
We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:
We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Who We Are:
Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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