Senior SAP Basis Engineer
NTT DATA, Inc.
Southfield, MI
Make an impact with NTT DATA Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive. Your day at NTT DATA The Application Managed Services Engineer (L4) is an advanced engineering role, responsible for ensuring a managed service is provided to all clients, ensuring that their Packaged Application technologies such as ERP, Middleware and other business critical software remain operational. This is done through proactively managing, overseeing, monitoring, investigating, and resolving escalated Application-based incidents and problems to ensure the restoration of these services to the clients. The primary objective of this role is to proactively review all client requests or tickets and apply technical process knowledge to provide the clients with almost immediate resolution without breaching service level agreement (SLA) and focuses on forth-line support for escalated incidents and requests with a high level of complexity. The Application Managed Services Engineer (L4) ensures contracted Managed Services outcomes are delivered to the client and may also contribute to / support on project work as and when requi What You'll Be Doing Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively monitors the work queues and provides support to clients where the ticket is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.
- Works independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents/requests in a timely manner within the agreed SLA Provides timely and consistent updates of tickets with resolution tasks performed.
- Proactively identifies, investigates, analyses issues and errors prior to or when they occur and log all such incidents in a timely manner.
- Captures all required and relevant information for immediate resolution.
- Provides forth level support to all escalated incidents, requests and identifies the root cause of incidents and problems, responds to tickets where third line engineer teams were unable to fix the problem.
- Shares such knowledge, to resolve issues, documents them, and pushes the knowledge down to other engineers.
- Communicates with other teams and clients for extending support.
- Acts as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues.
- Ensures that the shift handover process highlight any key escalated open tickets to be focused on along with a handover of upcoming operation critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift.
- Supports, tracks, and documents change implementation.
- Provides timely escalation of all tickets to management with ensuing updates, where applicable.
- Proactively identifies, contributes, implements and works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks.
- Systematically gathers relevant information and applies technical knowledge to analyse and uses highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices.
- Uses operational and diagnostic procedures to resolve escalated tickers in unique and complex client environments.
- Coaches Service Desk, Operations Centre, and L3 teams offering technical expertise and pushing work down to other engineering teams.
- May manage and implement projects within technology domain, delivering effectively and promptly per client agreed upon requirements and timelines.
- May work on implementing and delivering Disaster Recovery functions and tests.
- Performs any other related task as required.
- Excellent proficiency in change management process with an ability to plan, monitor and execute changes with clear identification of risks and mitigation plans to be captured into the change record.
- Deep technical skills in relevant Packaged Application technologies such as ERP, Middleware and other business critical software.
- Excellent client service orientation and passion for achieving or exceeding expectations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups.
- Ability to plan activities and projects well in advance, and takes into account possible changing circumstances.
- Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work.
- Ability to work well in a pressurized environment.
- Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary.
- Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information, and refraining from interrupting.
- Ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to place clients at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements, and create a positive client experience throughout the total client journey.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Information Technology/Computing (or demonstrated equivalent work experience).
- Certifications relevant to the services provided (certifications carry additional weightage on a candidate’s qualification for the role).
- Relevant certifications such as (but not limited to) -
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - OS DB Migration for SAP NetWeaver 7.4.
- SAP Technology Consultant.
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA 2.0.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional.
- IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network.
- Advanced Managed Services experience.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in ticketing tools, preferably Service Now.
- Worked in multiple large Global Enterprise client outsourcing projects.
- Advanced vendor management experience.
- Track record of effective shift left work management skills (moving work to junior levels).
- Advanced experience and understanding of the IT industry and standards for IT service management.
- Advanced experience in more than one area of expertise.
- Advanced experience across Emerging technology and trends impacting IT operations.
- Advanced years of experience managing Packaged Application technologies such as ERP, Middleware and other business critical software.
Posted 2026-02-02
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