Senior Service Now Consultant

Leidos; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly workplace

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a ServiceNow Consultant to join the Platform Team in Canberra. You will lead improvements and remediation initiatives to maximize value from the ServiceNow investment, translating business requirements into practical designs and delivering end-to-end platform solutions.

The role involves governance, templates, and patterns to guide other teams, with hands-on leadership across the Platform Team to meet service levels and roadmap objectives.

Qualifications

• Requires strong ServiceNow expertise including design, development, and governance.
• Experience translating business requirements into practical platform solutions.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes, security, and governance best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test, and maintain ServiceNow components and workflows.
• Design secure, scalable ServiceNow solutions and integrations.
• Collaborate with product architects and stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Provide leadership and mentoring within the platform team.

Skills

ServiceNow

ITSM

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ServiceNow Platform

Low-code/Automation

Job description

We're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace - we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

Reporting to the ServiceNow Product Owner, the ServiceNow Consultant is a senior member of our ServiceNow Platform team that support ServiceNow capabilities and instances to deliver organisational and customer objectives under operational sustainment contracts.

As a Specialist in the ServiceNow Platform and Product suite, this role will be leading improvement and remediation initiatives designed to gain maximum value from our investment in ServiceNow. This role is responsible for analysing and translating business information and technical requirements into practical designs, proposing solutions to achieve complex business objectives. The position provides guidance on, assists in establishing, and participates in technical governance processes as well as IT Service Management and Operations best practices.

The role collaborates on the design and implementation of a platform operating model that improves likelihood of successful go-lives and end-user adoption. The ServiceNow Consultant role provides technical evaluation of strategic and operational demands against the ServiceNow platform architecture, platform capabilities, and leading practices.

This role will also provide ServiceNow Platform governance, standards, templates and patterns for other teams and individuals contributing to outcomes on the ServiceNow Platform from other operational and project teams

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test, and maintain ServiceNow components, integrations, workflows, and automation solutions aligned to business requirements, licence optimisation, and persona-based designs, while contributing to OCM, training, and documentation.
• Design and implement secure, reliable, and scalable ServiceNow solutions and integrations, ensuring cyber security compliance, platform availability, evergreen upgrades, and alignment with best practice development, deployment, and release standards.
• Collaborate with Product Architects, Platform Teams, Support Teams, vendors, SMEs, stakeholders, and technical resources to consolidate requirements, deliver fit-for-purpose solutions, and support self-service, automation, and process improvement objectives.
• Provide hands-on leadership, mentoring, and workload coordination across the Platform Team, supporting service levels, timelines, priority tasks, continuous improvement initiatives, and the organisation's low-code/no-code maturity.
• Develop operational reporting and analysis, identify process improvement opportunities, contribute to project delivery and roadmap objectives, and ensure high standards of documentation, compliance, and architectural deliverables across the team.

About You and What You'll Bring

Highly skilled ITSM Specialist with ServiceNow Solution Architect, Developer, Technical Business Analyst, or System Administrator experience, combining business process analysis with strong ServiceNow technical capability to deliver customer-driven sustainable solutions.

Experienced in solving complex problems within customised ServiceNow environments using pragmatic, low-code, and ServiceNow OOTB approaches, with accountability for secure, scalable, consistent, and repeatable end-to-end solution design.

Works effectively in proactive and agile environments, including rapid prototyping and collaboration with process owners, while demonstrating strong judgement, prioritisation, decision-making, and the ability to support critical issues and incidents.

Holds or is willing to maintain relevant ServiceNow certifications, with Certified Technical Architect, Certified System Administrator, ITIL certification, and tertiary qualifications in computer information systems or related fields highly regarded.

Demonstrated experience in ServiceNow administration, development, architecture, ITSM operations, stakeholder workshops, cyber security, automation and orchestration, enterprise systems, troubleshooting, documentation, project management, mentoring, communication, and delivering outcomes in complex environments.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV-1 level security clearance and be able to uplift to NV-2.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

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