IT Asset Architect
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Integration: Design and oversee integrations between ServiceNow and external systems including AWS, Azure, GCP, FinOps tooling, security scanners, and endpoint management platforms. Ensure a reliable, multi-source reconciliation model that keeps data accurate and current. - Full-Spectrum Asset Lifecycle: Ensure end-to-end lifecycle visibility across all asset classes: physical endpoints, data centre hardware (compute nodes, switches, racks, cabling), cloud accounts and subscriptions, SaaS applications, and internal services. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the primary bridge between Infrastructure, InfoSec, Finance, and Cloud Operations. Design the workflows, standards, and governance frameworks that these teams use to manage risk, control spend, and maintain compliance. You will lead through influence and expertise rather than direct authority. - Automation Roadmap: Drive the organisation towards autonomous asset management. Design self-healing workflows and automated discovery
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processes that reduce manual effort and proactively correct data quality issues. - Service Mapping & Dependency Visibility: Lead service mapping initiatives for critical applications, ensuring full visibility into upstream and downstream dependencies to support disaster recovery and business continuity planning. - Executive Reporting & CMDB Health: Develop KPIs and observability frameworks that communicate asset programme health, infrastructure risk, and financial exposure to VP and C-suite stakeholders in clear business terms. Required Experience - Experience: 7+ years in IT Infrastructure or IT Asset Management, with at least 3 years in a lead or architect capacity. Demonstrated experience operating across multiple asset domains, including physical infrastructure, cloud, and application portfolios. - Education: Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent experience. - Governance & Standards: Proven ability to design and enforce enterprise-wide asset governance frameworks, including tagging taxonomies, lifecycle policies, and data quality standards. - ServiceNow: Strong hands-on experience with the ServiceNow platform, including CMDB, Discovery, and Service Mapping capabilities. Familiarity with the Common Service Data Model (CSDM) and asset lifecycle management within ServiceNow is expected. Ability to work at a technical level with platform configuration and integration design. - Cloud & Modern Infrastructure: Solid understanding of multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and how cloud-native resources, accounts, and subscriptions are managed as assets. Familiarity with containerised and episodic infrastructure. - Integration & Automation: Experience designing integrations between asset management platforms and external data sources. Comfortable working with APIs and automation tooling, with or without deep coding expertise. - Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of standards and governance frameworks across teams where you hold influence rather than direct authority. Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. - Analytical Communication: Ability to translate complex infrastructure data into business risk and financial language for senior stakeholders. Nice to Have - ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS) in Discovery, Service Mapping, or Hardware Asset Management - ITIL v4 Managing Professional or Strategic Leader - FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent cloud financial governance experience Why Join Our Team? As a Staff Engineer, you are a technical sovereign. You will have the autonomy to dismantle legacy silos and build a world-class asset
About the company
At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. Learn more at cloudera.com.