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Service Now Solution Architect

The Service Now Solution Architect is a Sr Manager-level role that actively supports our clients business initiatives by building reliable, efficient, scalable and business-oriented solutions based on the Now platform. They are involved in design and architecture of complex systems on all levels, from legacy migrations and other SNOW domain suite tools, through core platform setup, to integrations, automations, and orchestrations.

The Solution Architect is responsible for delivering the Technical Architecture and Design, as well as technical mentoring and enabling the team to deliver world class solutions using the NOW platform.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides top level business and technology architecture consultancy services to our clients.
• Brings thought leadership and innovative solution ideas to clients.
• Responsible for client technical deliverables including client design documents and proposals under the direction of the Project Manager.
• Enforces systems design and architectural standards, maintains best practices and drives the core principles throughout the systems delivery lifecycle.
• Provides input to Statements of Work (SOWs) and assists in presenting proposals to existing and potential clients.
• Works with Customer Managers, Architects, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Designers, and senior levels stakeholders.
• Collaborates with a larger group of Business SMEs, solution, and technical architects to set technical direction for the delivery of solutions.
• Provides input to the design of Service Now-based industry vertical solutions as a recognized Architect leader.
• Supports implementation programs for complex enterprise scale solutions.
• Maintains Service Now certifications with the latest delta exams.
• Achieves additional certifications as dictated by changing business needs.
• Establishes self as, and serves as active technical liaison between client and Service Now product group.
• Assists in gathering and reviewing clients business objectives and provides the appropriate technical design, addressing both their short-term tactical needs, and their long-term strategic needs.
• Reviews business requirement documents and/or user stories and provides technical solutions to align with those requirements.
• Provides technical design details in user stories which are complete, easy for developers to understand, and ready for development.
• Provides guidance, leadership, and technical oversight to technical resources to ensure best practice development on engagements.
• Provides input to the Release Planning sessions and Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Coordinates with QA resources to ensure test cases are properly written / executed from a technical perspective.
• Provide hands-on development, when necessary.
• Accountable for all technology related client facing and internal deliverables.

Knowledge &

Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years overall work experience and at least 2-3 years recent experience on the Service Now platform.
• Ability to design, architect and configure multiple applications / modules in the Service Now platform
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with common web technologies and networking (e.g. XML, HTML, AJAX, CSS, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.)
• Understanding of the key technologies relevant to the Service Now integration solutions including: SSL, REST Web Services, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, SOAP, SCP, FTPS, JSON
• Experience developing and implementing systems using Agile/Scrum methodology
• Micro-services architecture knowledge, enterprise integration patterns
• Ability to design, architect and configure complex integrations between Service Now and third-party applications.
• Strong communication and customer relationship skills at executive level, and ability to adjust for audience appropriately.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Advanced of process mapping software such as Visioli>

Education & Work Experience

• Proven experience in Service Now implementations, acting as a Solution Architect
• Service Now Fundamentals Certification required
• Service Now Implementation Specialist in one domain required, more preferred
• Service Now Developer certification is preferred
• Proven work experience running workshops, building out strategic roadmaps and being able to defend architectural and technical deliverables.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Management, Information Systems or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Technical Skills

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Primary Skill
Proficiency Level *
Rqrd./Dsrd.1

Service NowPL1

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* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level
Generic Reference
PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively…