Senior ServiceNow CMDB Specialist

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Senior Service Now CMDB Specialist with an active Secret clearance responsible for the end-to-end architecture, implementation, and long-term maturation of the enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This position is located in Arlington, VA and is a hybrid position.

This role places the Service Now CMDB at the center of the IT operational framework, establishing it as the single, authoritative source of truth for the entire IT environment.

This role translates technical infrastructure dependencies into business-aligned services using Service Now's Common Service Data Model (CSDM), configures automated Discovery mechanisms, and builds robust governance models to ensure data integrity. This operational, strategic, and highly collaborative role ensures the CMDB evolves continuously alongside the organization's business needs.

• Own the technical design, schema configuration, and instantiation of the Service Now CMDB, ensuring strict alignment with industry best practices and organizational data standards.
• Define, standardize, and maintain Configuration Item (CI) classes, attributes, and relationship types within the Service Now platform.
• Architect and implement multi-source data ingestion pipelines, leveraging Service Now Integration Hub, Service Graph Connectors, and the Robust Transform Engine (RTE) to unify disparate data streams.

• Govern the deployment of the Common Service Data Model (CSDM) across all four domains (Foundation, Design, Manage Technical Services, and Sell/Consume) to support true service-aware operations.
• Integrate CMDB data structures with core ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management) to enable automated risk assessments, accelerated root-cause analysis, and proactive impact modeling.
• Design and maintain automated service maps using Service Mapping capabilities to illustrate relationships between underlying infrastructure and consumer-facing applications.

• Engineer, configure, and scale automated Service Now Discovery across complex hybrid cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-premise environments.
• Manage and optimize MID Server architecture, credential stores, and custom discovery patterns to maximize visibility and eliminate infrastructure blind spots.
• Configure and enforce the Service Now Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) to govern data priorities, prevent CI duplication, and automatically resolve ingestion conflicts.

• Drive continuous IT environment maturity by defining, tracking, and reporting CMDB health metrics (Completeness, Correctness, and Compliance) through data certification tasks.
• Establish lifecycle governance processes for CIs from procurement through decommissioning to eliminate orphaned data and prevent "configuration drift."
• Author technical documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and configuration management plans to formalize CMDB processes across the enterprise.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Interactions.

The Senior Service Now CMDB Specialist operates at the intersection of infrastructure, development, and business operations. Key interfaces include:

• IT Asset Management (ITAM) Teams:
  Partner closely to align the CMDB with Hardware Asset Management (HAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM) modules, ensuring logical CIs map cleanly to financial and physical assets for compliance audits.
• Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Team:
  Collaborate closely to reconcile the physical lifecycle of hardware assets with the logical lifecycle of Configuration Items (CIs). You will ensure that the HAM module automatically triggers status and relationship updates in the CMDB for physical deployments, location transfers, and secure disposals to maintain audit readiness.
• Software Asset Management (SAM) Team:
  Partner to map discovered software installations and cloud resource usage directly to software models, entitlements, and license allocations. You will establish robust discovery patterns and data structures that allow the SAM team to track installations accurately, calculate compliance, and optimize software spend across the enterprise.
• IT Service Management (ITSM) Process Owners:
  Collaborate with Incident, Problem, and Change Managers to design workflows that leverage CMDB relationships,…