ServiceNow Application Developer - Advanced

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Enterprise Service Management function works to improve how National IT performs at all levels of the organization - - from strategy definition to service delivery, from operational effectiveness to process efficiency, from demonstration of budgetary performance and value generation to client satisfaction. 

As a ServiceNow Application Developer (Advanced), you will work with Product Owners to understand requirements, build high-quality scalable and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture, and help improve application development, deployment, and customization.

What You Will Do:

Develop conceptual, logical and physical IT engineering designs, that support the requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects to be implemented in the ServiceNow Platform. Complete analysis of business requirements, as it relates to technical design, and ensure traceability of the design to the business requirements. Assess testing requirements and prepares testing strategies leveraging ServiceNow’s Automated Test Framework, as well as preparing implementation and operational support plans.

Job Tasks Include:

• Build high-quality, clean, scalable and reusable code in ServiceNow by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)

• Advise team and customers on best practices and how to implement the necessary changes to address their business needs in the ServiceNow Platform.  Recommends alternatives and performs gap analysis to identify unaddressed needs.

• Lead strategic guidance initiatives and leadership to clients and leaders as it relates to the ServiceNow Platform. Key contributor in process improvement and long term technical strategic solution discussions. 

• Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.

• Work with a strong set of teams to improve developing and deploying applications and customizations

• Design software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs

• Contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite

• Collaborate day-to-day with an energetic team of like-minded developers, product managers and quality engineers using agile software development methodology.

• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the team.

• Perform change management using ServiceNow platform following FRIT change management policies and procedures for software propagation to other environments.

• May indirectly lead complex projects and participate on technical/complex projects.

• Provide project updates during Daily Standups as required.

• Assist with monitoring compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working within the ServiceNow Platform.

• 5+ years of software development experience with JavaScript as well as experience working with libraries such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, React and Node.js

• Experienced Full Stack developer with a firm understanding of:

  • Data structures

  • Algorithms

  • Object-oriented design

  • Design patterns

• Deep understanding and experience with Agile software development lifecycle.

• Bachel