Senior Solution Architect - ServiceNow

7-Eleven; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

7-Eleven seeks a Senior Solution Developer within the ServiceNow organization to influence enterprise solutions and champion design best practices. You will partner with technology and business leaders to promote reusability and modernization across initiatives.

Role requires hands-on ServiceNow architecture, strong software engineering background, and experience delivering scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ServiceNow architecture and implementations.
• Experience leading solutions design, development, and implementation of ServiceNow applications.
• Bachelor's degree in technology field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology architecture experience.
• Mentored architects and senior developers.
• Experience working within an agile operating model.
• Established technology direction and architecture vision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead technology architecture within the ServiceNow/IT business unit.
• Partner with leadership to set priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in modern architecture and technology modernization.
• Transform technology to minimize debt and drive efficiency.
• Prototype and validate new technology solutions with Engineering.
• Define target state architecture and roadmaps and align IT initiatives accordingly.
• Communicate architectural direction and strategy to stakeholders.
• Attract and recruit top tech talent and optimize resource mix.

Skills

ServiceNow architecture

ServiceNow implementations

Solutions design leadership

Software Engineering

APIs and cloud

Security and resilience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in technology-related field

6+ years enterprise/architecture experience

Tools

AWS

APIs

Accelerators

Job description

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

Role

As a Senior Solution Developer, part of the ServiceNow organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

Apply your extensive Solutions experience by helping to support multiple initiatives across the enterprise and look for opportunities to promote reusability and optimization.

Provide expertise with our division ServiceNow Team and be a champion for helping to design and implement solutions in ServiceNow, along with integrations with multiple systems and organizations.

Help application teams and other critical teams within the enterprise to ensure the completed application and platform architectures align with cybersecurity, resilience, scalability, and availability standards.

Demonstrate a strong passion for following and sharing design best practices and drive continuous technology transformations toward the zero-touch and zero trust models to minimize technical debt.

What Will You Do?

• Development responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the ServiceNow/IT business unit
• Works with the leadership within Technology and Business to develop priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
• Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise
• Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions
• Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies
• Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps
• Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
• Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction
• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
• Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent
• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have

• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow architecture and ServiceNow implementations
• Experience leading solutions design, development, and implementing applications with ServiceNow
• Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology Architecture experience
• Provided mentorship to architects and Sr. Developers
• Organizational and transformational experience in an agile operating model
• Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
• Strong proven Software Engineering experience
• Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Must be passionate about technology transformations
• Has hands-on experience in the last 5 years
• Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy
• Current deep experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators
• Good understanding of security
• Experienced with large scale technology platforms

What is a Must Have

Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.

Six years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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