Senior Engineer, ServiceNow Platform

Location: Edgewater Park, NJ

Salary: $ USD Annually - $ USD Annually

Description:
Senior Service Now Engineer and Platform Administrator

Employment Type: Full-Time

Salary Range: $115,000–$125,000 annually

Work Schedule: Hybrid — eight onsite days per month

Location: Edgewater Park, NJ

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

A large enterprise organization is seeking a Senior Service Now Developer and Platform Administrator to oversee the technical design, configuration, development, governance, and daily operation of its Service Now platform.

This position combines senior-level Service Now development with platform administration and technical leadership. The successful candidate will build custom applications, develop complex integrations, automate enterprise workflows, manage platform upgrades, maintain CMDB health, and ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

The role will also partner directly with business users, IT leadership, vendors, and technical teams to translate operational requirements into effective Service Now solutions.

This position requires eight onsite days each month

• Lead the technical design, development, configuration, and administration of the Service Now platform.
• Build custom applications, workflows, and platform features using JavaScript, Glide Record, Glide Ajax, Business Rules, Script Includes, and Client Scripts.
• Develop enterprise automations using Flow Designer, Orchestration, Integration Hub, and legacy workflow functionality.
• Design and support integrations between Service Now and external platforms using REST APIs, SOAP APIs, MID Servers, and related integration technologies.
• Manage platform upgrades, release activities, technical audits, testing, troubleshooting, and environment maintenance.
• Administer users, roles, access controls, system properties, data policies, and platform security.
• Establish and enforce development, data management, access control, and platform governance standards.
• Maintain CMDB accuracy, data quality, configuration-item relationships, and alignment with the Common Service Data Model.
• Define current-state and future-state platform architecture to support scalability and reduce technical debt.
• Gather requirements directly from business users and translate them into technical workflows and platform solutions.
• Partner with internal teams, vendors, and external service providers to implement and maintain tools and integrations.
• Communicate project status, risks, technical dependencies, and issues to management and key stakeholders.
• Support the coordination and communication of major incidents across the enterprise.
• Maintain and improve Incident, Problem, Change, and related IT service management processes in accordance with ITIL practices.
• Define and update service-level agreements, escalation procedures, incident thresholds, and communication templates.
• Use Continual Improvement Management to document, prioritize, and deliver process improvements across ITSM, HRSD, ITOM, and related functions.
• Create Performance Analytics frameworks, executive dashboards, and operational reports measuring incident volume, duration, mean time to resolution, SLA performance, and recurring issues.
• Present platform performance, service trends, and improvement opportunities during operational and quarterly service reviews.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work through automation, self-service tools, and improved platform capabilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Five or…