About Costco Wholesale: Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in eleven countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience for their members. About Costco Wholesale India: At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing creative solutions that improve members’ experiences and make employees’ jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale. Position: SAP Basis Engineer Work Schedule: Monday
- Friday Position Summary: The SAP Basis Engineer solves technical problems while working on technology initiatives; improving structures, existing tools, systems, components, processes, and solutions. Engineers in this role ensures delivery of high quality artifacts; and adheres to Costco’s SAP best practices. As well as, interact in a highly effective manner with other team members and management; drive innovation; and influence delivery and performance. The successful candidate must have deep knowledge and hands-on experience in enterprise-wide SAP platform; and have strong architectural, leadership, and technical skills. Job Duties/Essential Functions:
• Performs the administration and operation of the SAP HANA systems and associated components and 3rd party tools.
• Serves as technical support for medium to complex problem resolution. Provide technical expertise for resolving escalated system issues. Participate in crisis meetings as necessary.
• Uses subject matter expertise to support industry standard source control and source change management techniques.
• Determines appropriate escalation of issues and supports resolution by following up.
• Resolves incidents affecting the operation/availability of global systems, through troubleshooting and implementing known fixes.
• Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents and standards.
• Enhances automation of applications, systems,



and platforms; and identifies opportunities for streamlining and continuous process improvement.
• Collaborates with architects to plan, design, implement, and improve new capabilities, enhancements, solutions, and/or platforms.
• Partners with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders to establish the rough order of magnitude estimates, to create and maintain a robust framework to support applications, and to deliver quality solutions.
• Contributes, interprets, and communicates enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies to the team.
• Develops team vision to drive new capabilities against a published roadmap.
• Ensures that proposed and existing systems are aligned with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.
• Formulates and directs activities that align short term goals and long term initiatives, while providing accurate and timely estimates (work breakdown schedules).
• Works with teams, management, and stakeholders to conceptualize, design, build, test, and release products.
• Tests and resolves problems; performs root cause analysis; identifies gaps; recommends solution and preventative measures; and leads team members to solution delivery plans.
• Runs proof of concepts and uses diagnostic/debugging skills to solve current challenges in multi-platform systems.
• Provides technical leadership in implementation of applications, strategic planning sessions, and documentation of requirements, tool implementation, database query languages, and programming languages.
• Manages, defines, drives, and executes, as needed, the implementation of configurations across applications and interfaces.
• Provides status reporting to project stakeholders.
• Identifies opportunities and design solutions that continuously extract value from SAP applications.




• Ensures all project artifacts and deliverables are documented, approved, and stored for re-usability, support, and audit purposes in designated project tools.
• Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
• Assists in other areas of the department and company as necessary. Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications: Required:
• 10+ years’ deep SAP Basis experience in a large enterprise environment.
• 10+ years’ in designing, leading, and implementing medium to large scale projects.
• 10+ years’ experience in production support, including problem identification. (Root cause analysis).
• 10+ years’ experience troubleshooting and recommending technical solutions.
• SAP HANA Certification
• SAP TADM Certification
• Flexible in deep diving into project detail when necessary, while keeping the overall picture in mind.
• Team player with strong communication skills, both oral and written, including presentation skills.
• Extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency. Hands-on experience working in the following applications:
• S/4 HANA, HCM, ECC, CRM, CAR, SLT, BW, Fiori, EWM, SSO, ADS, Portals, HANA Sidecar, BODS, BOBJ, PI/PO, LaMa, Content Server, TREX Hands-on experience with:
• Backup and Restore, Failover, and Disaster Recovery procedures
• evaluating, installation, configuration and deployment of SAP applications
• SAP upgrades including Support Packs and Enhancement Packs
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SAP Performance tuning
• Data Archiving and Table Partitioning
• HANA System Replication
• Knowledge of BTP, BDC, Cloud ALM, and Focused Run
• Technically fluent in SQL
• Ability to write Bash Shell
• Ability to adjust priorities in rapidly changing environments; work well under pressure, and work independently. Recommended:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science preferred.
• Documentation and presentation skills catered to a diverse technical and business audience.
• Knowledge of Google products: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides

📌 SAP Basis Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Costco IT
📍 Hyderabad