ITOM Configuration Specialist

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OtherConfiguration Management Specialist

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Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise,

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OtherConfiguration Management Specialist

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

A ServiceNow CMDB Health Administrator is responsible for maintaining the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the Configuration Management Database. They monitor key performance metrics, configure remediation tasks for duplicate or stale Configuration Items (CIs), and govern data integrity across the platform.

Core responsibilities include:

·The Configuration Management Specialist is responsible for the management and compliance of Configuration Management data in the CMDB to support the day-to-day delivery of the BAU processes to ensure that both the Configuration Management service levels are met and that services are always delivered.

·A key responsibility of the ITSM Configuration Management Specialist, is to ensure that reliable and accurate data is stored in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). In addition, a key responsibility of the role is to ensure that the Operating Model, Roles & Responsibilities and Processes related to Configuration Management are understood and communicated across the Technology Organization

•Health Dashboard Monitoring: Tracking the CMDB Health scorecard across three main KPIs: Correctness, Completeness, and Compliance.

•Reconciliation and Remediation: Resolving duplicate CI issues, correcting orphaned records, and tackling stale or outdated CIs (e.g., servers not scanned by Discovery in over 30 days).

•Threshold and Policy Configuration: Setting CMDB health metric thresholds, defining health groups, and configuring data certification audits.

•Data Foundations Management: Aligning CI classes with the Common Service Data Model (CSDM) and optimizing data populated by tools like ServiceNow Discovery.

•Access and Governance: Working within the ServiceNow CMDB Workspace to set policies, govern CI relationships, and maintain security over class definitions

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised