Principal Technical Consultant-Federal

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

The Team

The Customer Excellence Group at ServiceNow works with customers to help them achieve their business outcomes by providing prescriptive guidance.  As part of the Customer Excellence Group, you will work with our customers to drive consumption, adoption, and customer satisfaction and ultimately help our customers grow their business on the ServiceNow platform by getting them to see the value of their ServiceNow investment.

The Role

The Principal Technical Consultant, Integrations Specialist is the functional and technical expert of a customer engagement team – consulting with customers and configuring ServiceNow Integrations based on configuration best practices – all with the goal of accelerating and driving customer business outcomes.  Integrations consultants design and implement integrations between ServiceNow and third-party software platforms, programs, and applications. They are expert problem solvers with extensive programming skills and abilities in multiple coding languages and frameworks. They also resolve errors, provide support, and develop procedures to navigate complex system overlaps. They will play a crucial role in delivering transformative integration architectures that support AI solutions on the platform.

What you get to do in this role:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry. 
• Devising integration development plans and strategies while formulating architectures for systems integrations.
• Implement the latest ServiceNow AI offerings like Virtual Agent, NLU, AI Search, Issue Auto Resolution, Task Intelligence, Document Intelligence, Generative AI and other upcoming capabilities for various customers
• Developing solutions specific to user requirements gathered in workshops.
• Coordinating activities with other developers to ensure that integrations and platform functionality is designed to support the overall project.
• Ensuring that best practices in integration processes are followed by the organization.
• Act as an SME to solve complex user issues related to Integrations and AI solutions.
• Checking and correcting conflicts in data configurations and overlaps.
• Analyzing and improving current instance configuration and setup to ensure proper design to support future of customer.
• Identifying, debugging, and advising on system errors or architecture issues. 

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we need someone who has:

• Active Security Clearance Required 
• At least 8 years of configuration/development experience for complex, highly capable, integration technologies
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons, and risks) in a complex and varied customer environment, while providing thought leadership to customer sponsors/stakeholders in solving business process and/or technical problems
• Maintain at least 2 ServiceNow mainline CIS certifications
• Maintain ServiceNow Certified Application Developer (CAD) certification
• Act as a technical lead on any engagement
• Experience with architecting systems integrations and creating complex high level architecture diagrams
• Extensive experience with Integration Technologies (Web Services (REST/SOAP), middleware, LDAP, SSO, JDBC, Import Sets, Export Sets, IDR (instance data replication), Remote Tables, Remote Process, etc.) and working with SaaS technologies
• Understanding of AI Models, Deep Learning Models, and Large Language Models with a focus on Generative AI.
• Experience with ServiceNow’s Predictive/Task Intelligence, AI Search, and Virtual Agent is highly valued.
• Experience with development on the ServiceNow platform capabilities (Studio IDE, Mobile, Automated Test Framework, Delegated Development, Flow Designer, Source Control, APIs, and Integrations)
• Experience with data management, database design, and database concepts
• Knowledge and experience with technical components such as LDAP, VPN, SSL, SAML/SSO and other widespread enterprise technologies
• Connect chat, agent chat, and virtual agent configuration and design experience
• Encryption understanding and core design principals with customers (Platform, Edge, Database, Full Disk, etc)
• Understanding and/or development experience with MID Servers, Notify, Orchestration
• Strong Javascript skills with practical experience
• Experience with Self Hosted implementations and/or Domain Separation is a plus
• Experience with data management, database design, and database concepts
• Strong interpersonal skills, customer-centric attitude, and ability to operate within a culturally diverse environment
• Proven team builder with the ability to mentor and develop talent
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to spot and fix errors in complex code
• Ability to perform tasks independently
• Good presentation and report-writing skills
• Up to 30% travel annually

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $165,500 - $289,600, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Additional Information

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity,  veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.  

Accommodations

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [email protected] for assistance. 

Export Control Regulations

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities. 

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