Product Owner

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner / Business Analyst – ITOM & CMDB to lead the enhancement, governance, and continuous improvement of IT Operations Management and Configuration Management capabilities. The successful candidate will work with Infrastructure, Cloud, Applications, Service Desk, Security, Operations, Architecture, and business stakeholders to define ITOM and CMDB requirements, prioritize the product backlog, improve configuration-item data quality, and ensure alignment with ServiceNow CSDM principles. The role requires strong knowledge of CMDB governance, ServiceNow ITOM, Discovery, service mapping, configuration-item lifecycle management, and stakeholder-driven product delivery. Key Responsibilities: Product Ownership and Backlog Management: • Own and maintain the ITOM and CMDB product vision and roadmap. • Gather requirements from Infrastructure, Cloud, Applications, Service Desk, Security, Operations, and business teams. • Translate business and operational needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. • Prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, data quality, operational impact, and dependencies. • Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and stakeholder reviews. • Define MVP scope and phased delivery plans. • Coordinate with development, platform, architecture, and implementation teams. • Accept or reject delivered functionality based on agreed acceptance criteria. • Track product benefits, adoption, data-quality improvements, and delivery outcomes. CMDB Governance: • Define and maintain CMDB governance standards, processes, roles, and responsibilities. • Establish configuration-item ownership and accountability. • Define CI naming, classification, lifecycle, relationship, and data-quality standards. • Establish processes for CI creation, updates, certification, retirement, and archival. • Define governance for duplicate, stale, orphaned, incomplete, or incorrectly classified CIs. • Develop CMDB health metrics and reporting. • Monitor completeness, correctness, compliance, conformity, and relationship quality. • Coordinate CMDB audits and remediation activities. • Maintain CMDB policies, procedures, standards, and operating models. ITOM and Discovery: • Support ServiceNow ITO:M capabilities, including:Discovery. • Service Mapping. • Event Management. • Operational Intelligence. • Cloud Discovery, where applicable. • Define Discovery requirements, schedules, credentials, patterns, and data sources. • Analyze Discovery results and resolve identification, reconciliation, and classification issues. • Support mapping of technical infrastructure to business and application services. • Define requirements for service maps, dependencies, and relationships. • Coordinate integration of CMDB data from cloud, network, endpoint, server, database, application, and monitoring tools. • Ensure Discovery and integration data follows CMDB governance and CSDM standards. CSDM Alignment: • Apply ServiceNow Common Service Data Model principles to CMDB and service-management processes. • Define and maintain service, application, technical, business, and supporting-service relationships. • Support alignment of service offerings, business applications, application services, technical services, and infrastructure CIs. • Identify and remediate CSDM data-model gaps. • Guide stakeholders on correct service and CI classification. • Ensure CMDB and ITOM enhancements support the agreed CSDM roadmap. Stakeholder Management: • Act as the primary link between technical teams, service owners, process owners, platform teams, and business stakeholders. • Facilitate workshops and requirements sessions. • Resolve ambiguity and conflicting requirements. • Communicate complex CMDB and ITOM concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Coordinate with vendors, ServiceNow partners, and implementation teams. • Provide product status, roadmap, risk, dependency, and data-quality updates. Testing and Delivery: • Define functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios. • Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, and production validation. • Validate Discovery, service mapping, CI relationships, event data, integrations, and CMDB health. • Manage defects, data-quality issues, and remediation actions. • Support release planning, change management, implementation readiness, and post-release validation.

The posting describes a Product Owner / Business Analyst for ITOM & CMDB with responsibilities across ITOM, CMDB governance, ServiceNow ITOM, Discovery, service mapping, CI lifecycle, and stakeholder-driven delivery. Specific hard requirements are not itemized as distinct sections with bullet-point qualifications (e.g., years of experience, certifications, or degrees).

Product Ownership and Backlog Management: own product vision/roadmap; gather requirements; translate needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria; prioritize backlog; lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, stakeholder reviews; define MVP scope; coordinate with development/architecture/implementation; accept/reject delivered functionality; track benefits and data-quality improvements. CMDB Governance: define governance standards, roles/responsibilities, CI ownership, naming/classification/lifecycle/data-quality standards; CI creation/updates/certification/retirement/archival processes; governance for duplicate/stale/orphaned/incomplete/incorrectly classified CIs; CMDB health metrics and reporting; monitor completeness/correctness/compliance/conformity/relationship quality; coordinate CMDB audits/remediation; maintain policies and procedures. ITOM and Discovery: support ServiceNow ITO:M capabilities including Discovery, Service Mapping, Event Management, Operational Intelligence, Cloud Discovery; define discovery requirements/schedules/credentials/patterns/data sources; analyze results and resolve identification/reconciliation/classification issues; map technical infrastructure to services; define requirements for service maps/dependencies/relationships; coordinate integration of CMDB data from various sources; ensure data follows CMDB governance and CSDM standards. CSDM Alignment: apply CSDM principles to CMDB and service-management processes; define/maintain service/application/technical/business relationships; align service offerings with applications/services/CI classifications; identify/remediate data-model gaps; guide stakeholders on correct service/CI classification; ensure enhancements support CSDM roadmap. Stakeholder Management: act as primary liaison among technical teams, service owners, process owners, platform teams, and business stakeholders; facilitate workshops/requirements sessions; resolve ambiguity/conflicts; communicate CMDB/ITOM concepts clearly; coordinate with vendors/partners/implementation teams; provide status/roadmap/risk/dependency/data-quality updates. Testing and Delivery: define functional requirements/user stories/acceptance criteria/test scenarios; support SIT/UAT/regression/production validation; validate discovery/mapping/CI relationships/related data/integrations/CMDB health; manage defects/data-quality issues/remediation actions; support release planning/change management/implementation readiness/post-release validation.