ServiceNow Technical Architect - ITOM
7 days ago
Newbury
Technical Archiect - ServiceNow ITOM Role Summary: You will be responsible for leading the technical direction, architecture & design, integrations, and platform governance of ServiceNow implementations - ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned with business strategy and best practices. Key Responsibilities • Lead workshops & discovery sessions with stakeholders (business, operations, IT) to understand current-state processes, define future-state vision, uncover requirements, constraints, and opportunities., • Design end-to-end ServiceNow solutions and technical architectures that align with organization’s strategic goals, considering scalability, performance, security, maintainability, integrations, data model, and user experience., • Define roadmap(s) and solution intent / blueprints: translate business goals into architecture, technology decisions, module usage, platform configuration vs custom development., • Ensure adherence to best practices, ServiceNow leading practices, coding standards, design patterns, security standards, data governance, and configuration over customization., • Manage or oversee integrations between ServiceNow and other systems (via REST, SOAP, IntegrationHub, MID Servers, etc.), ensuring reliability, security, latency, error handling, monitoring., • Establish / enforce architecture governance: review designs from development teams/partners, perform code review, ensure technical debt is tracked and managed, monitor instance health., • Mentor and lead junior architects, developers, administrators; elevate team capabilities., • Work with enterprise architects / platform owners to define platform strategy: instance strategy, environment strategy, upgrade/migration plans., • Support presales / proposal efforts by scoping, estimating, and designing reference architectures., • Participate in operational considerations: performance tuning, capacity planning, availability, disaster recovery, security compliance., • Stay up to date with new ServiceNow features, modules, trends (e.g., AI/ML, data fabric, Now Assist), assess applicability, and recommend adoption where relevant Required Qualifications & Skills • Strong experience in IT, of which several years are hands-on with ServiceNow—both in configuration and architecture., • Deep experience across multiple ServiceNow modules/workflows (for example, ITSM, ITOM, Discovery, ITAM, CSM, HRSD, SecOps, GRC, etc.)., • Strong integration experience: REST/SOAP APIs, IntegrationHub, MID Server, custom integrations., • Understanding of data modeling, CMDB, metadata, core data, data governance, security., • Experience in defining and implementing technical governance, architecture operating models, instance strategy., • Good knowledge of IT best practices and frameworks: ITIL, Agile methodologies, DevOps, CI/CD practices., • Strong problem-solving, analytical skills; ability to resolve technical trade-offs (e.g., custom vs. configuration, performance vs. maintainability)., • Excellent communication skills: ability to explain technical designs to business stakeholders, leadership, peers; also effective writing of architectural documentation