
business analyst Aberdeen, Scotland
Job description
Connect to your Industry
This is an opportunity to be at the heart of transforming our business. Deloitte has made an industry leading commitment to transform the way we run our business and support our client facing practitioners, using ServiceNow as our “digital backbone”.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
This is an opportunity to join our exciting and growing NSE ServiceNow Product Team as our ServiceNow Development Lead. This Manager-level role spans across the entire development capability of our NSE ServiceNow Product Team, providing technical guidance and overseeing all Developers to deliver high quality solutions. You will also support Platform and Solution Architects in producing detailed application architectures that meet business requirements and adhere to our global standards.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
As our ServiceNow Development Lead, you are responsible for providing technical oversight and development subject matter expertise to the NSE ServiceNow Product Team across our Transform, Grow and Run squads.
The successful candidate will be fluent in ServiceNow development principles and must have hands-on ServiceNow development experience covering the full ServiceNow suite of products.
Key responsibilities:
- As a senior developer, provide oversight across the NSE ServiceNow Product capability, which covers our Transform, Grow and Run squads.
- Liaise with Solution and Platform architects and COE Technical Design Authority to propose new implementations and solutions.
- Oversee the administration, configuration, and customisation of new and existing ServiceNow modules and the NOW scoped applications
- Champion development good practice to protect the platform (e.g., ensuring that advanced configuration does not impact system performance or the ability to upgrade in future)
- Peer review development work done by the squads against leading practice.
- Support Platform and Solution Architects in creating detailed application architectures.
- Effectively manage stakeholder expectations, raising risks, issues, and dependencies in an appropriate and timely manner.
- Define standards and drive maintenance of technical documentation relating to development and ways of working.
- Document solution notes to guide squads in how to deal with novel developments, configuration, and customisation of new and existing ServiceNow solutions.
- Undertake development, configuration, and customisation of new and existing ServiceNow solutions as a team member within the transform projects for c.50% of your time.
- Take training with ServiceNow to ensure that your skills remain at the forefront of development standards and approaches so that you can guide the teams in best/leading practice.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You love nothing more than connecting people to delivery outstanding results. You bring out the best in your team, and work closely with stakeholders to understand and meet their business objectives.
Essentials:
- Excellent development capabilities, with recent implementation experience
- Familiarity with the new features of the latest release of ServiceNow
- Extensive experience leading and providing oversight to ServiceNow Developers.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in ServiceNow development and administration with proven track record in the design and development of complex, large-scale implementations.
- Extensive experience developing and implementing ServiceNow in ITSM, HRSD and scoped applications. Ideally also familiar with ITBM, ITOM and CSM.
- Extensive experience of Business Rules, Script Includes, UI Actions and all scripted aspects of ServiceNow.
- Experience of Low code development, Process automation designer, app engine and flow designer
- Up-to-date industry certifications including two or more of the following: ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA), Certified Application Developer (CAD), Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS), ITIL V4 Foundation.
- Demonstrable experience integrating ServiceNow with other 3rd party or bespoke tools.
- Demonstrable experience in managing version upgrades.
- Demonstrable experience in designing and documenting technical approaches aligned to development good practice.
- Experience working with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies.
- Experience with one or more of the following: JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, XML, JQuery and REST/SOAP Web Services.
- A positive attitude and perseverance required to troubleshoot / resolve complex technical issues whilst balancing multiple priorities
Desirable:
- Industry certifications that include one of more of the following: ITIL Managing Professional, Agile (e.g., ICP), Scaled Agile (e.g., Leading SAFe 5.0), Certified Scrum Master (e.g., CSM) etc.
- Experience of leading geographically dispersed teams, recognising importance of understanding cultural differences in building a one team approach.
Connect to your service line – Central Business Services (CBS)
CBS comprises seven service areas: Business Support Services; Clients & Industries Services; HR Services; IT Business Services; IT Infrastructure Services; Quality, Risk and Security Services; and Workplace Services. We also have two central teams - Delivery Partners and Vendor Management, and Service Management and Continuous Service Improvement. Here is where we deliver world-class business support services for our people, our clients, and our firm. From HR services, technology and digital support and pensions to facilities management, and more - together we are a true enabler for better business. Highly skilled, experienced service delivery professionals, we have complete responsibility for processes that drive efficiency and deliver impact. Not just for our internal customers, but for the clients Deloitte works with too. We are transforming what it means to work in business services; join us and you will experience a career full of fantastic opportunities.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“What we have achieved by using ServiceNow is nothing short of incredible and I am hugely excited by what is still to come. We have an amazing opportunity to improve and support our practitioners and colleagues experience by working collaboratively as one team.” Anita Sanderman, Head of HR Services, a key stakeholder for this role
“The great thing about working as part of the NSE ServiceNow team is opportunity to be part of focussed, supportive, diverse, and well organised team. The team have clear goals and plan so that each squad within NSE ServiceNow team is focussed on delivering quality product. The team is incredibly supportive and always happy to assist each other. Team members are diverse which bring creativity and a broad range of ideas to the table. The team is well organised so that each member of the team is getting the work done efficiently. Not to forget the team is fun loving which leads to relaxed environment.” Nikhil Patel, ServiceNow Test Lead
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading, Southampton, St Albans or Teesside team. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your UK colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers