Lead Software Engineer-ServiceNow
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Job Description
Summary
Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions that meet business needs.
Works on more complex, less clearly-defined software projects under limited supervision. Applies a full understanding of established systems software development principles and best practices to analyze complex issues. Updates or modifies working methods in their own role/work area without the benefit of defined procedures.
Lead Software Engineers are expected to have a high level of knowledge of domain technologies, platforms and systems software development principles and best practices to independently resolve problems and make major changes to existing processes/systems.
Responsibilities
- Modifies existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware,, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance.
- Develops and directs software system testing and validation procedures.
- Leads software programming and the development of technical documentation
- Consults with the business on project status, proposals, technical issues, software design, and maintenance.
- Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan installations of a new systems and modifications to existing systems
- Works autonomously and with Associate/Software engineers to support and maintain products the team is responsible for by ensuring availability of all tools and completing customer requests
- Actively participates in agile team and ceremonies.
- Works with other product teams to complete project activities, such as Infrastructure, Architecture and Database teams.
- Breaks down complex requirements into workable technical solutions for Associate/Software Engineers
- Assist in the evaluation of new product tools and maintaining current levels of existing tools
- Ensures support documentation is up to date and communicated to entire team
- Adheres to regulatory, PDP, Change Management and Internet Department processes and standards, ensuring all projects are compliant.
- Document software and perform related duties as assigned or requested.
- Actively contribute to best practices to support a strong software architecture.
- Follows proper handling of sensitive data per security guidelines.
- Identifies and executes opportunities to leverage agile/iterative/lean processes to deliver projects faster.
- Incorporates and supports new technology/frameworks to support our continuous integration efforts.
- Gathers requirements and builds automation/monitoring workflows to eliminate manual work and ensure availability of all applications
- Actively engages in continuous professional development plan
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or Mathematics
- 2+ years of Software Engineering experience
- In lieu of education, 4 years of Software Engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 years of ServiceNow development experience, including Application UI, workflows, notifications, SLAs and Service Catalog forms
- Experience with design, development, deployment, and maintenance of secure integrations using REST, JSON, XML, HTTP, SOAP, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Postman
- Experience with IT integration services and reporting tools.
- Ability to build or modify scripts using JavaScript (MVC: Angular, React, Vue), Angular JS, .NET, HTML or other languages as necessary
- Experience with RDBMS: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced oral, written and presentation communications including the ability to present technical information in a way that non-technical audiences will understand
- Experience with multiple ServiceNow platform products desired
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies
- Experience with ITIL methodology
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