ServiceNow Principal Architect

Job description

Are you a ServiceNow Architect looking for a challenging new opportunity?

Sopra Steria's Government and Transport sector are recruiting for a unique ServiceNow Principal Architect role to work across a variety of clients in the public sector. This is a senior role within the ServiceNow Practice that offers the opportunity to influence the technical direction and facilitate the growth of the team moving forward. You will be a ServiceNow expert, and have previous experience working in architecture delivering end-to-end solutions within ServiceNow. We are also looking for an individual that has a proven track record leading and building teams, and be comfortable collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at various levels.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

While you will be working from home a lot of the time there will be some travel associated with the role, more than likely a couple of times a month.

What you'll be doing:

• Technical Leadership and Management of the team with three direct reports currently
• To Define the scope and deliverables for assignments with 'client' (internal or external) for the definition and execution of solutions architectures to integrate all of a client's requirements
• Deliver assignments in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures
• Ensure effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of subcontractors and partners)
• Share personal knowledge of 'expert and specialist areas' through coaching and mentoring, running workshops, establishing 'special interest groups'

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable ServiceNow Architect experience (Workshop Facilitation, Story Validation, designing customer requirements into a functioning solution)
• Demonstrable experience of ServiceNow Implementations
• Experience of writing Solution Design Documents
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior resources in ServiceNow Implementations
• Line Management experience

It would be great if you had:

• Certified Technical Architect
• Experience of Cloud solutions - AWS / Azure

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Can be based anywhere in the UK
Security Clearance Level: SC or eligible to achieve SC clearance
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £110,000
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (couple), life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
We support the UK Government to tackle today's biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We've been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.