Director, ServiceNow Engineering (R-19848)

Dnb; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Education assistance

Volunteer days

401k with company match

Health benefits

Job summary

Dun & Bradstreet in Austin, TX is seeking a Director of ServiceNow Engineering to lead the hands-on development of our ServiceNow Platform and guide a team of skilled engineers.

The role requires deep technical depth to challenge designs, estimate work, and drive architecture decisions while growing the team’s capabilities and platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience leading ServiceNow engineering teams and delivering enterprise platform solutions.
• Strong architectural understanding of ServiceNow data models, integrations and securit
• Ability to estimate work, manage budgets, and challenge partner designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead development activities of the ServiceNow Platform, guiding design and architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and coach platform architects, ensuring engineering excellence.
• Define project plans, timelines, budgets, and manage partner relationships.
• Collaborate with process owners to propose architecture for implementations.
• Drive automation and AI features with proper testing and code quality.
• Establish development standards, governance, and release controls.
• Hire, coach, and evaluate engineers; conduct performance reviews.

Skills

ServiceNow Platform

Leadership

Architecture design

JavaScript/REST/SOAP

CI/CD

Team mentoring

Budget management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Discovery/Service Mapping

Job description

Shape the Future with Dun & Bradstreet

At Dun & Bradstreet, we believe data has the power to create a better tomorrow. As a global leader in business decisioning data and analytics, we help companies worldwide grow, manage risk, and innovate. Since 1841, businesses have trusted us to turn uncertainty into opportunity. We’re a diverse, global team that values creativity, collaboration, and bold ideas. Are you ready to make an impact and help shape what’s next? Join us!.

Director, ServiceNow Engineering (hands-on) is responsible for leading the overall development activities of the ServiceNow Platform. The leader needs enough technical depth to challenge designs, estimate work, make architecture decisions and develop/configure as needed. Along with leading a team of highly skilled engineers.

The Director, ServiceNow Engineering will work with various ServiceNow Process Owners and Technology Operations teams to understand their needs and propose appropriate architecture/design for implementation. As the leader of the team, this role will work with the team to grow their skills, drive opportunities of platform adoption, and focus on engineering excellence.

• Drive Core Engineering Excellence to ensure we build, run and operate the ServiceNow Platform and core products with high Availability, Resiliency and operational insights.
• Develop and execute on project plan and timelines, manage budgets with our cloud provides and manage the relationships with internal and external partners.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand their needs and propose appropriate architecture/design for implementation.
• Identify areas for growth with a focus on software development testing and automation.
• Drive automation with AI and other ServiceNow automation features while ensuring the right levels of testing and code quality checks are in place.
• Serve as a coach and mentor to platform architects, engineers, and platform product/process owners.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• Minimum of 8 years of leadership experience on the ServiceNow Platform.
• Understand platform architecture, data models, tables, relationships, scoped applications, integrations, security, upgrade implications, and platform limits.
• The ability to break technical requirements into technical components, identify dependencies/complexity, estimate developer effort, and challenge estimates from the team partners.
• JavaScript, Business Rules, Script Includes, Flow Designer, Integration Hub, REST/SOAP APIs, ACLs, UI configurations, debugging and performance trouble shooting.
• Understanding how major products/capabilities interact (not necessarily be the SME for every module).
• Strong knowledge of Incident, Problem, Request, Change, Knowledge, Service Operations Workspace, CMDB and related workflows.
• Understand CI relationships, Discovery, Service Mapping, CSDM, identification/reconciliation, and data quality.
• Establish development standards, code reviews, technical governance, release controls andguardrails to prevent unnecessary customization.
• Recognize poor queries, inefficient scripting, excessive automation, integration bottlenecks and other platform performance risks.
• Understand Now Assist, GenAI capabilities, AI agents, skills, use cases, governance, security, and value realization.
• Source control, update sets/app repo, automated testing (APM), CI/CD, cloning, environment strategy, release, and upgrades.
• Challenge partner designs, estimates, staffing models, and technical recommendations rather than rely on vendors for technical direction.
• Hire, coach and develop engineers; establish expectations; conduct performance reviews.
• Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication skills with all levels of staff.
• Ability to resolve problems quickly as they arise and lead through obscurity of these problems and build solutions for future.
• Demonstrated experience in leading people and working with diverse development teams.
• Show an ownership mindset in everything you do. Be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action. Be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success.
• Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.

Benefits We Offer

• Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
• Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
• Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
• Education assistance and extensive training resources.
• Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
• Competitive 401k with company matching.
• Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
• Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

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