Architect, ServiceNow @ Nüvitek

At Nüvitek, customer success is our Ethos; together, we drive transformational outcomes. We only succeed when our customers succeed. We partner with our customers to achieve business objectives by using our proven customer-centric, value-driven business practices and service delivery methodologies.

As an Architect, ServiceNow specializing in Integrated Risk Management (IRM) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), you will provide technical leadership in designing and delivering enterprise ServiceNow solutions. You will work alongside developers, technical teams, and business stakeholders to build secure, scalable applications that support audit management, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and organizational oversight. This role combines hands-on development with solution architecture, technical decision-making, and team mentorship to ensure platform enhancements align with enterprise standards and long-term business objectives. In assuming this position, you will be a critical contributor to meeting Nüvitek's mission: To deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions and services that enable our customers to rapidly adapt to dynamic environments.

Location: Chantilly, VA (Government/Contractor SCIF) – Remote Clearance: U.S. Citizenship Required. Active Top Secret (TS) clearance required at time of hire. TS/SCI eligibility required; active TS/SCI preferred. Polygraph eligibility preferred for certain assignments.

In assuming this position, you will be a critical contributor to meeting Nuvitek's mission: To deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions and services that enable our customers to rapidly adapt to dynamic environments.

• Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of enterprise ServiceNow applications supporting governance, risk management, compliance, and audit operations.
• Translate approved architecture designs and business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring applications are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with ServiceNow platform standards.
• Develop scoped applications that extend native ServiceNow GRC/IRM capabilities while preserving out-of-the-box functionality and minimizing unnecessary customization.
• Establish application data structures and relationships to support audit engagements, control objectives, evidence management, findings, recommendations, and corrective action tracking.
• Design and implement application security models using access control lists (ACLs), role-based permissions, assignment groups, and record-level security to protect sensitive information.
• Configure application access and visibility rules to ensure users can only view or modify records appropriate to their responsibilities and authorization levels.
• Develop end-to-end workflows that support audit planning, engagement management, fieldwork, supervisory reviews, reporting, findings, and corrective action follow-up.
• Configure and customize ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities to support project intake, prioritization, approvals, and coordination with GRC/IRM processes.
• Build integrations and automated processes that synchronize information across ServiceNow modules and maintain consistency throughout application workflows.
• Develop interactive workspace and Service Portal experiences that improve usability, support business processes, and provide appropriate visibility into operational activities.
• Implement Flow Designer automation for task assignments, approval routing, notifications, review processes, and workflow completion requirements.
• Design and configure risk and compliance solutions that support entity management, control objectives, control assignments, attestations, and testing activities.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of enterprise control frameworks, including mapping controls to applicable entities and business functions.
• Develop solutions for tracking audit findings, recommendations, remediation activities, and corrective action plans.
• Plan and execute data migration activities from legacy systems into ServiceNow, including data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
• Establish technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, development standards, and implementation procedures.
• Lead technical reviews of code, application configurations, and update sets to ensure quality, security, maintainability, and upgrade compatibility.
• Participate in architecture reviews and present proposed solutions, technical recommendations, and implementation decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and development guidance to engineers and developers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with project leadership, business process owners, and technical teams to manage backlogs, assess development priorities, and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Support Agile delivery activities, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical estimation, and retrospectives.
• Oversee technical testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment preparation, knowledge transfer, and post-implementation support.