Senior Solution Architect - ServiceNow

my7elevenhr; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

7-Eleven is seeking a Senior Solution Developer in the ServiceNow domain to influence enterprise architecture and innovate solutions across IT initiatives. You will design, prototype, and lead implementations with ServiceNow, while aligning with cybersecurity, resilience, and scalability standards.

The role requires hands-on architecture experience, mentoring capabilities, and a track record in technology modernization and API strategy, with collaboration across engineering and business teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow architecture and implementations.
• Experience leading solutions design, development, and implementing applications with ServiceNow.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in technology with 5+ years of architecture experience.
• Mentorship to architects and senior developers.
• Agile operating model experience.
• Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision.
• Strong software engineering background.
• Developed target state roadmaps aligned to business goals.
• Experience with cloud-native migration and API strategy.

Responsibilities

• Development responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the ServiceNow/IT business unit.
• Works with leadership to develop priorities and direction for business imperatives.
• Demonstrates thought leadership in modern architecture and technology modernization.
• Drives continuous transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Partners with Senior Software Engineering to execute technologies.
• Defines target state architecture and roadmaps for the enterprise.
• Ensures IT initiatives align with the target state.
• Communicates architectural direction to stakeholders.
• Attracts and recruits top architecture talent.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

ServiceNow architecture

ServiceNow implementations

Solution design

Leadership

Agile

Cloud-native

API strategy

Security

Software engineering

Technology modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology-related field

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.

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.

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