Principal Consultant Financial Services Customer Industry Workflow

The Principal Consultant is a functional and technical expert consulting with customers on implementing ServiceNows Financial Services Operations (FSO) solutions based on best practices for Banking and Insurance all with the goal of accelerating and driving customer business outcomes. The role requires the person to be laserfocused on solving for the most relevant customer challenges providing support during sales cycles on direct engagements with our Customers and Partners and advocating for customer needs within ServiceNow (e.g. Product Management Customer & Partner Excellence Training & Certification). 

The Principal Consultant brings architectural guidance business acumen in the financial services industry (Customer Service Call Center Information Technology Banking and Insurance Operations Process etc.) and deep product expertise innovation and knowledge capital to our customers and partners. 

What will you be doing in this role  

Project Delivery  

• Serve as primary technical pointofcontact for projects and as the face of the development team to the customer. 
• Ensure quality of work delivered by the technical team serve as escalation point for client concerns and identify and implement technical team process efficiencies to benefit the technical team and clients. 
• Define at an architectural and design level of detail technical solutions aligned with our clients business problems and ServiceNow Implementation Best Practices.  
• Understand customer requirements translate to highquality technical solutions and communicate and deliver them to clients. 
• Write/estimate stories monitor developers work and own overall quality and delivery of development.  
• Lead technical onboarding efforts with new clients to understand their current processes and platform configurations.  
• Deliver any purchased development artifacts documentation and knowledge transfer activities.  
• Collaborate with the engagement manager to monitor for scope creep and resolve critical path technical issues.  
• Mentor developers and technical consultants on technical design standards and best practices.  
• Research technology partner or other vendor solutions in context of client requirements for integration. 

PreSales  

• Maintain and build proficient knowledge of the ServiceNow platform and products.  
• Assist the presales team with scoping service engagements typically involving multiple ServiceNow products and complex integrations with client applications/systems/core banking platforms/core insurance platforms. 
• Evangelize ServiceNow Expert Services by contributing to whitepapers webinars community groups and partnerships.  

Product 

• Engage and collaborate closely with the ServiceNow product teams on new product service offerings and go to market activities. 
• Interface with the product team during new product implementations to gain best practices insights and give feedback on new features and capabilities to enhance the product. 

Qualifications :

To be Successful in this role you will need to have the following qualifications: 

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes decisionmaking or problemsolving. This may include using AIpowered tools automating workflows analyzing AIdriven insights or exploring AIs potential impact on the function or industry. 
• At least 8 years of consultation and/or configuration experience implementing highly configurable technologies (ServiceNow Salesforce Pega etc.) to automate processes in financial services particularly banking operations (eg. card operations transaction dispute management & resolution credit processing loan operations) and insurance operations (eg. claims processing policy servicing). 
• Experience in financial services consulting digital transformation or software implementation within the banking investment or insurance sectors. 
• Familiarity with industryleading software platforms such as ServiceNow Oracle Financial Services SAP Pega Salesforce Service Cloud Temenos or similar.  
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing enterprise architectures and technical roadmaps with integrations with Customer Facing Portals Core Banking Platforms Core Insurance Platforms Transactional Based Systems Document Management Platforms Data Warehouses etc.  
• Strong Understanding of the financial services industry and specific knowledge including system architecture security use cases workflows personas industry standards compliance and regulatory requirements (Ex. HIPPA PHI PII KYC AML PCI DSS Reg E Reg Z etc.) typically found in the financial services ecosystem.  
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult senior leaders (identification of needs providing options with pros cons and risks) in a large organization while also providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving business process and/or technical problems.  
• Understanding of data classifications and impacts to storage and security requestions for various types.  
• Experience creating implementation design artifacts conducting solution presentations and obtaining customer acceptance of solution design. 
• Strong capabilities in forging trust engaging a remote or inperson audience bringing project/program management and leadership expertise.  
• Strong aptitude toward communicating complex business and technical concepts using visualization and modeling aids. Ability to conceptualize and design sophisticated wireframes workflows and diagrams. 
• A passion to continually study new technologies and functionality as well as be involved in projects that push the capabilities of existing technologies. 

Certifications  

As a ServiceNow Expert Services Consultant you will be a continuous learner required to achieve and maintain new accreditations and certifications participate in professional development courses and be passionate about innovation. 

• Required ServiceNow Certifications: (can be obtained within the first 30 days) 
• Certified System Administrator 
• Certified Application Designer 

Required in the first 90 days: 

• Certified Implementation Specialist Customer Service Management  
• Certified Implementation Specialist Field Service Management 

Required in the first 180 days:  

• Financial Services Banking and Wealth Management Suite 
• Financial Services Insurance Suite  

Required in first year: 

• Certified Technical Architect (achieve in first year or similar advance certification) 

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Not sure if you meet every qualification We still encourage you to apply! We value inclusivity welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds including nontraditional paths. Unique experiences enrich our team and the willingness to dream big makes you an exceptional candidate!

Additional Information :

Work Personas 

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible remote or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work. Learn more here.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin or nationality ancestry age disability gender identity or expression marital status veteran status or any other category protected by law. In addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations 

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Export Control Regulations 

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities. 

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