ServiceNow Technical Lead

Business Unit

Information Technology

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Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:

HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia‑Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No.

1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions for the past two years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by LSEG.

As a Service Now Technical Lead, you will be a pivotal member of an empowered product team, jointly accountable for driving significant customer and business outcomes within the Service Now domain. Your expertise will ensure that solutions are technically sound, scalable, and of the highest quality. You will continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible, leveraging your deep understanding of the Service Now platform’s capabilities to innovate and deliver exceptional value.

We seek a proactive leader and problem‑solver with a strong product approach mentality, passionate about transforming complex challenges into seamless experiences. You will contribute a strategic vision, guiding the product’s evolution and ensuring alignment with long‑term goals. Your strong product approach mentality will ensure that you consistently prioritize user needs and business value, guiding development with a clear vision of the end‑user experience.

Ultimately, you’ll be passionate about transforming intricate systems and processes into intuitive, efficient, and seamless experiences within the Service Now platform.

• Partner with the Product Manager and Product Designer to jointly own and be accountable for the team's defined business outcomes, not solely feature delivery.
• Actively participate in ongoing customer contact and discovery activities, translating user problems and business opportunities into technical options and constraints.
• Utilize deep Service Now expertise to identify the most feasible, performant, and scalable technical solutions, prioritizing out‑of‑the‑box functionality over customization whenever possible.
• Serve as the team's primary assessor for feasibility risk and a key contributor to viability risk, ensuring all proposed solutions can be built and maintained effectively.
• Design and guide the implementation of complex solutions on the Service Now platform, ensuring alignment with architectural standards for performance, security, and scalability.
• Lead the engineering team in applying best practices for Service Now development, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, version control, and platform maintenance.
• Proactively manage technical debt, balancing rapid delivery with long‑term sustainability, and prioritizing platform upgrades and health checks.
• Remain hands‑on with the platform, leading by example in complex development, code reviews, and providing subject matter expertise on integrations (e.g., APIs, third‑party systems).
• Coach and mentor product engineers on product‑centric development, fostering a culture where engineers understand the ‘why’ behind their work and actively shape solutions.
• Act as a technical obstacle remover for the team, resolving complex integration issues and managing technical dependencies with other platform teams.
• Champion the organization's principles of Trust over Control and Learning over Failure by encouraging intelligent technical risk‑taking, fast prototyping, and leveraging platform capabilities.

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience as a developer or architect on the Service Now platform, with expert knowledge in at least one core domain (e.g., CSM, HRSD, ITSM, App Engine).
• Proven experience working effectively within a product team…