ServiceNow Senior Developer(Senior Technical Lead)

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Your role

This Service Management role is responsible for the maintenance, configuration and development of the Firm's IT Service Management tool, ServiceNow. This involves working within an agreed governance model to translate the requirements of process owners and other key contacts into a live implementation. There is an aggressive service management roadmap in play, which is aiming to deliver a number of self-service, automation and orchestration initiatives, and this role is crucial to the delivery of these initiatives using the tool.

Who you will work with

• Service Management Team
• Wider IT Team
• Business Users of Custom Applications

What you will be responsible for

Support & Client Focus

• Help deliver the service management roadmap, which is aiming to deliver a number of self-service, automation and orchestration initiatives.
• Ensure that industry knowledge remains up to date.
• Scrutinise all requests for change to ensure that any work to the tool maximises value to the Firm and its clients.
• Maintain a working knowledge of all of the Firm's Service Management processes, and how those processes are integrated with the tool, to ensure that the impact of a change to one module is fully understood across all modules.
• Work with process owners, providing practical input and advice to help rationalise and improve stated requirements whilst at the same time ensuring that any changes do not detrimentally affect other modules or the system as a whole.
• Be an escalation point for ServiceNow admins, as required, to resolve complex issues within OLA.
• As required, ensure technical documentation and training materials for ServiceNow admins remain current.
• Provide ad-hoc specialist training where required.
• Adhere to change management policies, process and procedures to ensure that any bug fixes and upgrades are thoroughly tested in the non-production environments before they are released to production.

Reporting

• Offer expert knowledge of how to build and develop reports from the tool.
• Build ad hoc reports for management upon request.

Systems Administration

• Perform workflow, data management, development and integrations in line with industry standard and Clifford Chance best practice.

Development & Testing.

• Support and, as required, manage the ServiceNow upgrade cycle
• Utilise JavaScripting, HTML, CSS etc., as appropriate, to improve the performance and/or functionality of the tool and maximise value to the Firm and its clients.
• Work with internal and/or external development resources. Ensure that this in-house or 3rd party software integration works effectively with the tool and maximises value to the Firm and its clients.
• Produce and maintain a comprehensive testing protocol for the tool with the purpose of certifying all applications for use after changes have been deployed.
• Plan, perform and manage regular BCP tests for the ServiceNow platform

Offshore Support

• Work with the wider Service Delivery team to ensure that the offshore support teams sufficiently dovetail with the London teams, helping to ensure that the split between onshore and offshore responsibilities is correct.

What you will do

On a day-to-day basis, the role will work on configuration and development tasks in the ServiceNow tool including, but not limited to, security, workflow, data management, development and integration of 3rd party tools. This may be in the ITSM Module (Clifford Chance uses ITSM Pro) or on a variety of custom applications.

As part of this work, the analyst will be responsible for ensuring that core data integrity is maintained by adhering to a common, agreed taxonomy and naming convention.

The role will support the ServiceNow upgrade cycle and will liaise with ServiceNow as and when incidents and/or requests need to be raised. The role will also need to work with internal and/or external engineering and development resources as and when more complex scripting and integration work is required. It is, therefore, expected that this role will build strong relationships with both individuals within ServiceNow as well as key engineering and development resources within Clifford Chance.

It will be the responsibility of the person in this role to track and manage any 3rd party activity affecting the tool.

Your experience

Skills:

• Strong technical development skills in ServiceNow.
• Strong problem solving and entrepreneurial skills to drive solutions to completion.
• Project management and organisational skills including the ability to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously.
• Strong relationship skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communications skills.
• Some form of customer-facing interaction or consulting experience is a plus.

Experience:

• Experience of interacting with global teams.
• Must have performed a similar role with ServiceNow with a similar size user base (approx. 600 IT system users, approx. 80 bespoke application users).
• ServiceNow:
  • ITSM Pro including SAM and HAM Pro
  • Custom Applications (ideally for non-IT business units)
  • 3rd party integrations
  • Employee Centre (or Employee Centre Pro) – or at least Portal
  • ServiceNow Mobile Apps e.g. Agent Mobile
• Experience with some or all the following technologies is a plus: Unix/Linux/Windows environments, PHP, SQL, SOAP, XML, C#, Python.

Knowledge:

• A deep knowledge and experience of using JavaScript, web design, server-side programming, data structures, HTML, CSS, Ajax methodology.

Qualifications:

• The role holder should be a qualified to ITIL Foundation, ideally with some ITIL lifecycle stream certificates, as well as hold the relevant ServiceNow development and implementation certificates
• Educated to degree level

Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. Find out more here.