Team Data & Process Integration (EDI/EAI)

Our Responsibility
We are the Integration Team! We are software developers in the platform IT domain and take care of the process- and data integrations with external customers, partners, carriers and authorities (EDI). One of our responsibilities is to transform the customer-specific data formats to the Hellmann format while always ensuring that the data arrives reliably in the Hellmann target systems. Data- and process integration are core components of all digitalization and innovation-transformation projects at Hellmann. This makes us an integral part in the development of these strategic projects and topics.

Our Team
We are a team of four software developers in Osnabrück and fifteen colleagues in Budapest. We also have a team leader, a software architect and two colleagues, who take care of the operation, the release and change management as well as the development of our technical DevOps platform. Our team plays crucial part in all strategic transformation projects at Hellmann. Therefore, pretty much all methods that are on the market are used by us when it comes to project management: Scrum, Kanban and OKRs too, of course.

Our Technologies, Tools & Methods
Over 5,000 customer integrations and millions of internal messages are handled by us via standard EDI/EAI/API platforms on which we build the integration and transformation adapters (business logic). These platforms also provide the input channels for external messages like FTP, AS, etc. Wherever it makes sense, we use relevant standard message formats such as X12, or EDIFACT. However, we also model global business objects, generic business objects and the transformation into the application-specific message format. Our legacy EDI EAI platform is Tibco and our target platform is Software AG Webmethods. We write our business logic object-oriented in Java. XML, XSLT, XSD, Git/SVN, Continuous Delivery, Docker and microservice development are other parts of our toolbox and we can move confidently on Windows as well as Linux systems.