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Lead Administrator, ServiceNow Platform

AT Merrill
Merrill

Lead Administrator, ServiceNow Platform

Plano, TX

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

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About the Team:

The Global Technology Service Management function is a new team charted with designing, implementing, and managing next generation Service Management policies, processes and solutions. Our mission is to ensure the appropriate controls and capabilities are in place to enable the delivery of stable, resilient, and available technology services to our customers and employees.

Position Summary:

The ServiceNow Platform Lead Administrator will play a leading role in maintaining the ServiceNow platform as defined by the Product teams. Our Operations team is responsible for level-2 end-user support, code migration/release support as well as production availability for over 10 ServiceNow instances. This role will provide hands on technical expertise to resolve service availability issues which includes coordinating cross team efforts to perform root cause analysis and problem resolution. You will work in a team environment to plan and implement software (or hardware) changes. We participate in various phases of the application lifecycle including plan, server build and software installation, release implementation, continuous improvement, and decommission. At these early stages of our ServiceNow deployment, sharing knowledge and developing a documentation library as a team will be essential to our success.

This job is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities and functions for the assigned team. Key responsibilities include delegating work to team members, supervising work processes, providing informal leadership of sub teams or technology silos, managing on call and support schedules, and providing leadership, mentorship, and direction to team members. Job expectations include solving complex technical and analytical issues and effectively communicating results to senior management and Line of Business partners.

Key responsibilities:

  • Maintain and support the ServiceNow platform while adhering to bank policies and standards
  • Manage ServiceNow code quality control processes and routines
  • Lead and mentor a team of operations specialists assigned to work on ServiceNow
  • Respond to incidents for application availability issues as part of on-call duties
  • Respond to incidents/pages for application functional issues or questions as part of daily duties
  • Use your technical knowledge to triage service availability issues and restore service
  • Research and resolve system defects, lead root cause analysis, and drive permanent resolution
  • Ensure appropriate monitoring is in place and maintained to ensure application availability
  • Participate in software release implementation meetings
  • Participate in and coordinate maintenance activities
  • Prepare and maintain application support/process documentation
  • Develop management jobs, automation routines, or deployment scripts
  • Manages and prioritizes multiple tasks and assignments for the team including tracking tasks and tickets in system(s) of record, ensuring enterprise service level agreements are met, and participating in defect, incident, problem, and change review meetings and release activities
  • Provides point of escalation for team members, peers, and partner teams, and shares the leadership Point of Contact for triage of high priority incidents or consulting engagements
  • Performs all responsibilities of team members from applicable teams
  • Works with appropriate teams to ensure alerts, monitoring, dashboards, and processes are established appropriately for new projects and initiatives
  • Participates and helps with resource interviews and onboarding processes
  • Performs access reviews, conducts compliance activities, and serves as a delegate for administrative processes

Skills:

  • Collaboration
  • Influence
  • Production Support
  • Risk Management
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Innovative Thinking
  • Result Orientation
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Adaptability
  • Automation
  • Project Management
  • Solution Delivery Process

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience a ServiceNow development and engineering with emphasis on platform management.
  • ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) certification, product micro certifications.
  • Proven experience as an administrator in highly regulated environments.
  • Experience in maintaining multiple ServiceNow environments.
  • Experience monitoring and maintaining ServiceNow products, supporting software engineering, maximizing data processing systems, building cloud-compatible services, and operating within an enterprise IT lifecycle.
  • Experience supporting ServiceNow integrations for security, risk, and compliance.
  • Experience with ServiceNow instance cloning and management.
  • Experience maintaining both Windows and Linux MID servers.

Desired skills:

  • ServiceNow certified implementation specialist (CIS).
  • ServiceNow certified application developer (CAD).
  • Experience in financial institution information technology security, compliance with rules, regulations, and financial industry standards.
  • Experience leveraging MID servers for integration and automation.
  • Experience with ServiceNow Discovery and other Configuration Management Database (CMDB)population toolsets.

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Client-provided location(s): Plano, TX, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24031190
Employment Type: Full Time