Senior Solutions Engineer - CMDB Discovery Specialist

Overview:

Serves as an advanced technologist within Service Now Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Responsibilities for diagnosing and isolating incidents, developing technical documentation, facilitating projects across the CMDB stakeholders ensuring the accuracy of configuration data.

Primary Responsibilities:

Managing the day-to-day activities of the Configuration Management (CM) process, including establishing priorities and work assignments

Manage CM operational incident and request queues and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met.

Tracking compliance to policies and procedures and resolving or escalating any non-compliance issues

Facilitating and performing CM audits as needed

Facilitating communication and engaging business and IT management to encourage CM efforts and value propositions

Engaging with strategic projects to ensure configuration management can deliver the required CMS functionality within project time frames

Mentoring the organization of CM services, concepts, policies, and procedures. Mentoring and helping direct configuration management specialists

Participating in the configuration control board (CCB) and enacting changes as directed

Providing requirements, use cases, user stories, etc. to support new or improving CMS functionality

Reviewing and approving all requests for the administrator log on credentials and access rights to the CMS infrastructure

Overseeing the design, coding, and testing of reports as needed

Collecting and reporting on metrics as required

Identifying service improvement opportunities

Develop a thorough understanding of technology and its functions, processes and operations. Remain current on business and market trends that may affect the Department and business lines.

Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite.  Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.

Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Service Now Discovery & Service Mappingo   Administer and maintain Service Now Discovery infrastructure, Configure and optimize Discovery Schedules, MID Servers, Discovery Patterns, Credentials, Cloud Discovery, Monitor Discovery performance and troubleshoot failures.o   Expand Discovery coverage across Servers, Network Devices, Databases, Cloud Resources, Containers, Application so   Lead Service Mapping initiatives to improve business service visibility and impact analysis.o   Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to validate discovered relationships.
· Maintain CMDB health, integrity, and compliance with enterprise governance standards.
· Monitor and improve CMDB Health KPIs including:o   Completenesso   Correctnesso   Compliance Complete other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Required:

Combined minimum of 6 years’ higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture.

Education and Experience Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering Minimum 6 years’ professional experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, process design and/or development for complex applications

Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches

Advanced technical and analytical skills

Advanced problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Advanced knowledge and advanced…