Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a modern IT leader with a strong customer-centric mindset who drives service-delivery excellence and operational stability. This role requires experience implementing and supporting ServiceNow in large, global environments, including during mergers and acquisitions. You will standardize processes, strengthen platform performance, and continuously improve the employee experience across the organization.

Position Summary

Acuity is seeking a seasoned ServiceNow Systems Engineer and Subject Matter Expert to serve as the primary technical lead during a period of transition. This role is responsible for performing a technical audit of the current environment, stabilizing the platform, and maintaining ServiceNow health while a new support structure is established.

You will lead platform administration, upgrades, integrations, and strategic decommissioning efforts as processes transition to a new ServiceNow instance. The Senior ServiceNow Administrator will manage, optimize, and extend the ServiceNow platform to support critical IT and business workflows, ensuring stability, security, and compliance within a regulated financial services environment.

This role requires deep expertise in ServiceNow administration and development, strong knowledge of ITSM and CMDB best practices, and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams while executing against a defined roadmap and product backlog.

This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week onsite in our St. Louis office.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Stability & Administration

• Serve as the primary technical lead, working closely with the platform owner and lead developer as the new team is formed
• Perform comprehensive environment health checks and technical discovery to understand existing configurations and customizations
• Manage day-to-day ServiceNow administration, including users, groups, roles, and security ACLs
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and integration issues
• Manage upgrades, patches, cloning, and release validation across environments

Module & Capability Management

• Support and maintain core ServiceNow modules, including ITSM, CMDB, ITAM, ITOM, and SecOps
• Ensure CMDB integrity through reconciliation rules, discovery, service mapping, and governance aligned to ITIL v4 and CSDM
• Manage and troubleshoot REST/SOAP integrations, IntegrationHub workflows, and MID Servers
• Develop and maintain integrations with enterprise systems such as Microsoft Intune, Azure, and other SaaS platforms

Architecture, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Act as lead ServiceNow technical architect, defining current-state and target-state architecture
• Own platform governance, security compliance, and standards enforcement
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement remediation strategies
• Collect and analyze metrics to track platform usage, workflow efficiency, and operational health
• Maintain technical documentation covering architecture, data governance, and system design

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work within Agile methodologies to support design, development, testing, deployment, and post-deployment support
• Partner with ITSM, infrastructure, application, asset, and security teams to support impact analysis and root cause analysis
• Mentor ServiceNow and CMDB resources and contribute to roadmap planning

Required Qualifications

• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) required; CAD or CIS certifications preferred
• 8+ years of enterprise ServiceNow administration experience
• Strong understanding of ITSM processes and best practices
• Proven ability to work independently in complex environments
• Strong forensic troubleshooting skills, including reading existing JavaScript, GlideRecord, Business Rules, and Script Includes
• Experience with CMDB, Discovery, Service Mapping, and data governance
• Proven experience with ITSM, CMDB, ITAM, ITOM, SPM, and SecOps
• Integration experience using IntegrationHub, REST APIs, SOAP, and MID Servers
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and ServiceNow configuration tools
• Ability to document architecture, data models, and technical designs

Technical Skills

Required

• Enterprise ServiceNow administration and CMDB ownership
• CSDM and ITIL v4 alignment
• Integration workflows, APIs, MID Servers, and ETL concepts
• ServiceNow Flow Designer, Business Rules, Script Includes, Scheduled Jobs
• Strong understanding of infrastructure components (on-prem, cloud, containers)

Preferred

• Additional ServiceNow certifications (ITOM, Discovery, CMDB, IntegrationHub)
• ITIL v4 Foundation
• Scripting experience (JavaScript, PowerShell, Python)

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• High attention to detail and sound judgment under pressure

Preferred Experience

• ITSM, ITAM, ITOM, and CMDB implementations
• Reporting and dashboard development for operational insights
• ServiceNow update sets, migrations, and performance tuning
• Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)

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This position is an exempt position. The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between $100,000- $125,000 base salary compensation range. Actual base pay could vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, subject matter expertise, geographic location where work will be performed, and the applicant's skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life and 401(k). Please note that the job title is subject to change based on the selected candidate's experience and education.