Senior Servicenow Architect

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raritan, NJ +2

Senior ServiceNow Architect responsible for the design, delivery, sustainability, and operational readiness of scalable, secure solutions on Johnson & Johnson’s enterprise ServiceNow platform. This role requires a hands-on technical leadership approach in a large, highly governed environment, prioritizing configuration-first solutions, code quality, security, and upgradeability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end-to-end platform architecture and configuration decisions to support process domains.
  2. Implement disciplined server-side logic using Business Rules and Script Includes with emphasis on reuse, encapsulation and testability.
  3. Design and maintain ACLs, role/group strategies and least-privilege access models suitable for a global enterprise environment.
  4. Make pragmatic decisions that prioritize platform sustainability: refactor or remove custom logic that conflicts with out-of-box capabilities and upgrade paths.
  5. Act as the subject matter expert for ServiceNow platform; support backlog refinement, complex incident resolution and architectural guidance to delivery teams.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum 7 years hands-on ServiceNow platform architecture design and implementation experience on large-scale, enterprise platforms
  • Demonstrable experience designing and implementing Business Rules, Script Includes and ACLs in a governed environment
  • Strong functional knowledge and practical experience in at least one ServiceNow process area (e.g., HSRD, Source2Pay, LSD)
  • Strong technical judgment with documented examples of decisions that balanced performance, security, maintainability and upgrade impact
  • Excellent verbal and written communication; able to explain design tradeoffs clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders
  • Prepared to discuss specific real-world examples of technical decisions and implementations during interviews

Nice to have

  • Two or more current ServiceNow certifications such as: Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS) — ITSM, CMDB, ITOM, Certified Application Developer (CAD), Certified System Administrator (CSA)
  • Direct experience planning and executing major ServiceNow upgrades, including remediation of customization-related upgrade issues

What the JD emphasized

  • hands-on ServiceNow platform architecture design and implementation experience on large-scale, enterprise platforms (not delegated work)
  • Demonstrable experience designing and implementing Business Rules, Script Includes and ACLs in a governed environment
  • Strong technical judgment with documented examples of decisions that balanced performance, security, maintainability and upgrade impact
  • Direct experience planning and executing major ServiceNow upgrades, including remediation of customization-related upgrade issues