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Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Platform Engineers translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Solution Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives. Platform Engineers are well versed in modern data, infrastructure and integration platforms, industry/technology best practices and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.

The SAP HR Platform Engineer will be responsible for the successful maintenance and growth of Costco's Human Resource environments/technologies. This position will work closely within IT to ensure Costco's SAP HR platforms have stability, resilience and optimal performance. The SAP HR Platform Engineer will work with Costco's Infrastructure and Architecture teams to ensure that best practices for HR solutions are followed across the enterprise. The Platform Engineer will also coordinate, mentor, collaborate, and potentially lead others on development and delivery of solutions following Costco's change management policies and procedures.

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ROLE

• Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.

• Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and executes updates based on SLAs.

• Manages the platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring, patching and support.

• Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.

• Conducts regular platform checkups and reports inefficiencies to relevant business and technology stakeholders.

• Collaborates with infrastructure and/or provisioning groups to stand up the platform.

• Develops and instruments monitoring dashboards depicting platform health and performance.

• Develops and builds scalable and generalized frameworks to support the integration of internal and third-party APIs.

• Performs analysis on existing platform components to identify improvements to software development processes.

• Develops and implements Platform as a Service (PaaS) Solutions.

• Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

• Participates in the creation of documentation and artifacts used to describe the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring and maintenance.

• Collaborates with Architects and technology team members to define development tasks and activities within technical user stories to support the implementation of Infrastructure as a code solution.

• Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to ensure its reliability.

• Plans and Implements arrangements for Disaster Recovery and conducts related testing of recovery procedures.

• Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering with technology vendors.

• Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services.

• Tests diagnostics (including) automated regression testing.

• Develops and executes integration testing plans (as needed).

• Authors and executes test cases related to supporting the implementation of platform development work.

• Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with the Architects.

• Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices as well as regulatory requirements.

• Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.

• Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

• Evaluates and documents all operating systems according to required standards.

• Participates in the development of continuous integration/continuous development frameworks in support of DevOps and Agile practices.

REQUIRED

• 2-5 years experience supporting HR applications and HR best practices.

• 2-5 years experience supporting SAP SuccessFactors (cloud) and SAP HCM/ERP (on-premise) for Personnel Administration and Organizational Management.

• 2-5 years experience working with technologies such as SAP BTP, ABAP, integration tools (API/OData), data migration, and system security.

• 2-5 years experience in integrating HR systems with third-party apps using APIs, SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), and BDC.

• 2-5 years experience with integration tools such as SAP PI/PO, Informatica ETL, Axway, and UC4.

• Strong HR business process knowledge.

• Good problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Information Technology, or Computer Science.

• SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Application capabilities and integration.

• Familiarity with integration tools such as SAP PI/PO, Informatica ETL, Axway, and UC4.

• Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.

• Ability to explain technical concepts to HR stakeholders clearly.

• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

Cover Letter

Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 1 - $85,000 - $110,000

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

Level SR - $150,000 - $190,000

Level Staff - $180,000 - $225,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.