Service Now Platform Architect
Northern Trust2 days ago
Base Salary
$137k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain ServiceNow platform security architecture, standards, security patterns, guardrails, and roadmap.
- Establish governance and controls for platform access, configurations, applications, integrations, customizations, and security exceptions.
- Architect identity, authentication, authorization, ACL, role, privileged-access, service-account, and least-privilege controls.
- Define secure patterns for REST and SOAP APIs, IntegrationHub, MID Servers, OAuth, certificates, scoped applications, and cross-scope access.
- Establish secure development standards and conduct architecture, security-design, and code reviews for ServiceNow customizations.
- Assess platform configurations, upgrades, patches, plugins, releases, vulnerabilities, and security-sensitive changes, and drive remediation.
- Define monitoring, audit evidence, access reviews, regulatory controls, and security validation for platform operations.
- Serve as the ServiceNow Platform Security SME and provide guidance to architects, engineers, developers, administrators, identity teams, cybersecurity, risk, and product teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
- 15+ years of IT experience, including significant ServiceNow architecture, engineering, or solution-design experience.
- At least 5 years as a ServiceNow Architect in a large enterprise environment focused on platform security, access control, and administration.
- Strong knowledge of ServiceNow ACLs, roles, groups, architecture, configuration, application development, integrations, data, and security practices.
- Experience with identity providers and ServiceNow integrations using SAML, OAuth, SCIM, or LDAP.
- Experience in cybersecurity, risk assessments, audit response, or vulnerability management.
- Experience establishing architecture standards, design patterns, governance, and engineering guardrails.
- Strong understanding of ITSM/ITIL, security, privacy, risk, and enterprise technology practices.
- Strong communication and influencing skills across technology and business stakeholders.
- Preferred: financial-services or other highly regulated-industry experience; experience with ServiceNow ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, IRM, SecOps, HRSD, or DevOps; enterprise-scale ServiceNow modernization or transformation experience; ServiceNow CSA certification and CIS, CAD, or CTA certifications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) and pension, medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal mobility and accessible senior leadership.
- Inclusive workplace culture and opportunities to support community philanthropy.
Tech Stack
JavaScriptSOAP
Categories
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.