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The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Team is seeking a highly skilled ServiceNow Platform Engineer to strengthen and evolve CMDB capabilities across an expanding ServiceNow ecosystem. The CMDB team is responsible for delivering a single source of truth for IT assets and services across the enterprise, supporting governance, discovery, integrations, and innovation. This role is designed for an experienced engineer who excels in complex platform environments, enjoys solving challenging technical problems, and wants to play a key role in enabling advanced ServiceNow modules, AI-driven features, and future platform capabilities. As demand for the ServiceNow platform continues to grow, this position provides dedicated engineering capacity to reduce bottlenecks, accelerate delivery, and ensure CMDB-dependent processes remain performant, scalable, and secure. Impact & Growth This is a high-impact, senior technical role with clear influence over how the ServiceNow platform and CMDB evolve across the enterprise. The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, governance, and innovation, helping ensure the platform is prepared for future growth, including AI, automation, and advanced analytics capabilities.
Core Responsibilities
ServiceNow Platform & CMDB Engineering
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Team is seeking a highly skilled ServiceNow Platform Engineer to strengthen and evolve CMDB capabilities across an expanding ServiceNow ecosystem. The CMDB team is responsible for delivering a single source of truth for IT assets and services across the enterprise, supporting governance, discovery, integrations, and innovation. This role is designed for an experienced engineer who excels in complex platform environments, enjoys solving challenging technical problems, and wants to play a key role in enabling advanced ServiceNow modules, AI-driven features, and future platform capabilities. As demand for the ServiceNow platform continues to grow, this position provides dedicated engineering capacity to reduce bottlenecks, accelerate delivery, and ensure CMDB-dependent processes remain performant, scalable, and secure. Impact & Growth This is a high-impact, senior technical role with clear influence over how the ServiceNow platform and CMDB evolve across the enterprise. The role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, governance, and innovation, helping ensure the platform is prepared for future growth, including AI, automation, and advanced analytics capabilities.
Core Responsibilities
ServiceNow Platform & CMDB Engineering
- Design, engineer, configure, and support CMDB functionality within an increasingly complex ServiceNow platform landscape.
- Build CMDB solutions aligned with ServiceNow best practices, performance standards, and long-term platform roadmaps.
- Support the implementation, optimization, and adoption of advanced ServiceNow capabilities, including Now Assist and AI-driven features.
- Ensure CMDB-related services remain stable, secure, resilient, and scalable as adoption and dependency continue to grow.
- Provide dedicated engineering coverage where broader ServiceNow platform teams are capacity constrained.
- Accelerate delivery by reducing cycle time for enhancements, fixes, upgrades, and client requests impacting CMDB-dependent workflows.
- Identify and reduce technical debt to improve maintainability, reliability, and future extensibility of the platform.
- Support ongoing operational excellence for CMDB-related services.
- Partner closely with CMDB governance, operations, platform, and client teams to translate requirements into durable, enterprise-grade technical implementations.
- Act as a trusted engineering advisor for CMDB-related design decisions, trade-offs, and roadmap planning.
- Enable safe and scalable adoption of new ServiceNow capabilities across the organization.
- Accelerates delivery of ServiceNow and CMDB capabilities.
- Eliminates platform bottlenecks and reduces accumulated technical debt.
- Improves platform reliability, scalability, and overall client experience.
- Enables secure and scalable adoption of AI-powered ServiceNow features.
- Minimum of five years related work experience. Three years of service assets and configuration management experience.
- Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
- Deep, hands-on experience engineering solutions on the ServiceNow platform, with strong CMDB expertise.
- Proven ability to design and support scalable, enterprise-grade platform solutions.
- Experience supporting ServiceNow implementations, upgrades, and new feature adoption.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner effectively with governance, product, and operational teams.
- Comfort working in environments with high platform demand and competing priorities.
- Experience with AI-driven features, automation, integrations, or performance optimization within ServiceNow.
- Background supporting CMDB-related initiatives such as discovery, data quality, and platform scalability.
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.