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Senior ServiceNow Engineer

City of New York

New York, NYFull-time$68–143K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$68–143K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Office of Technology and Innovation seeks a Senior ServiceNow Engineer to develop and maintain the city’s enterprise ITSM system, supporting 20 city agencies. The role works with business process owners, service providers, infrastructure teams, and data owners to deliver service management, discovery, and integrations. It also partners with engineering, security, and product teams, provides technical leadership and mentoring, and supports end users.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

ServiceNow DevelopmentITSMITOMCMDBRequirements GatheringWorkflow AutomationInfrastructure DiscoveryAPI IntegrationDevOpsTechnical LeadershipMentoringEnd-User SupportTroubleshooting

Qualifications

MS+3, Bachelor's+4, HS+6 or Equivalent18 Months Management ExperienceCity Employee Permanent in TitleReachable on Civil Service List55-a Program Eligibility

Full job description

Job Description

FOR CITY EMPLOYEES PERMANENT IN THIS TITLE ONLY

The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity, improve public safety, and help government run better across New York City. From delivering affordable broadband to protecting against cybersecurity threats and building digital government services, OTI is at the forefront of how the city delivers for New Yorkers in the 21st century. Follow us on social media @NYCOfficeofTech, and visit www.nyc.gov/oti to learn more.

At OTI, we offer great benefits, and the chance to work on projects that have a meaningful impact on millions of people. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with other passionate professionals who share your drive and commitment to making a difference through technology.

OTI seeks an experienced and forward-thinking Senior ServiceNow Engineer to drive the value, scalability, and security of the city's critical support infrastructure. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, working with internal business process owners and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of an enterprise ITSM system that is the core service management tool for 20 city agencies and the IT Service request system for all agencies.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Develop and maintain solutions in OTI’s ServiceNow system for ITSM, ITOM and CMDB processes.

  • Work with Service Owners to gather complex requirements and implement forms, workflows and automation related to request management.

  • Maintain existing platform implementation, working with process owners to update existing forms and workflows and addressing reported issues.

  • Work with administrators, infrastructure teams and data owners to configure new infrastructure discovery.

  • Maintain existing discovery implementation and proactively troubleshoot issues with data as well as issues reported by class owners.

  • Integrate ServiceNow with external systems using API calls or integration platforms.

  • Maintain documentation related to implemented functionality.

  • Provide support and guidance to end users, demonstrating expected use of the system and troubleshooting reported issues.

  • Partner closely with software engineering, security, and product teams to foster a DevOps culture, providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.

  • Perform special projects and initiatives as needed.

HOURS/SHIFT

Day - Due to the necessary duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.

WORK LOCATION

Brooklyn, NY

TO APPLY

Only permanent employees in the title and those that are reachable on the current civil service list are eligible to apply.

Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #804753

  • Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration

SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW

APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL

This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program.

Please indicate in your cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position under the 55-a program

OTI participates in E-Verify

#LI-DNI

COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER - 1005D

Qualifications

  1. A master's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services. At least eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or

  2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four (4) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

  3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and six (6) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

  4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three (3) years of experience as described in "1" above, including the eighteen (18) months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one (1) year of the required IT experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity as described in "1" above.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary Min: $ 68,214.00

Salary Max: $142,500.00

How this job compares

Set against the 11,702 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$68–143K/yr
  • New York median$116–183K/yr233 salary ranges
  • US median$116–190K/yr8,618 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $105K, is 30% below the New York median midpoint ($151K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 316 open Systems Engineer jobs in New York and 11,702 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,797 postings).
Education
4,445 of the 11,702 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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