Senior Solution Architect - ServiceNow

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

As a Senior Solution Developer, part of the Service Now organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:
Apply your extensive Solutions experience by helping to support multiple initiatives across the enterprise and look for opportunities to promote reusability and optimization Provide expertise with our division Service Now Team and be a champion for helping to design and implement solutions in Service Now, along with integrations with multiple systems and organizations. Help application teams and other critical teams within the enterprise to ensure the completed application and platform architectures align with cybersecurity, resilience, scalability, and availability standards Demonstrate a strong passion for following and sharing design best practices and drive continuous technology transformations toward the zero-touch and zero trust models to minimize technical debt What Will You Do?

Development responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Service Now/IT business unit Works with the leadership within Technology and Business to develop priorities and direction to enable business imperatives Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Hands-on experience with Service Now architecture and Service Now implementations Experience leading solutions design, development, and implementing applications with Service Now Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology Architecture experience Provided mentorship to architects and Sr. Developers Organizational and transformational experience in an agile operating model Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization Strong proven Software Engineering experience Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models Innovation and Continuous Improvement Must be…