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With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. 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refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.\nCollaborate with stakeholders and the Product Owner to develop, prioritise, estimate, and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.\nPlan sprint commitments based on priorities, dependencies, risks, and team capacity, and track delivery progress and blockers.\nPrepare test scenarios and test data, support system and integration testing, coordinate user acceptance testing, and ensure defects are tracked to closure.\nPlan and coordinate user briefings, training, communications, and operational-readiness activities.\nDevelop rollout and deployment plans, including release readiness, cutover activities, rollback considerations, release documentation, and post-deployment verification.\nSupport production deployment, stabilisation, and handover to operations and support teams.\nSecurity, Compliance & Quality Assurance\nImplement role-based access controls and appropriate safeguards for sensitive employee and workforce data.\nAdhere to IM8, SGTS, organisational security requirements, and applicable data-protection policies throughout the development lifecycle.\nEstablish and maintain automated tests using ServiceNow Automated Test Framework where appropriate.\nSupport code reviews, quality checks, release controls, and CI/CD practices for ServiceNow deployments.\nRemediate vulnerabilities, defects, and audit findings within agreed timelines.\nSystem Maintenance, Support & Documentation\nPerform sprint-based maintenance, including incident resolution, defect fixes, performance tuning, and enhancements.\nMonitor application health, investigate issues, and resolve incidents in accordance with agreed service levels.\nMaintain functional and technical documentation, including requirements, process flows, solution designs, configuration records, integration specifications, test evidence, deployment guides, and support procedures.\nCreate knowledge articles and conduct knowledge transfer to support teams and business users.\nUse operational feedback and sprint retrospectives to improve solution quality, delivery practices, and user experience.\nTechnical Leadership, Reusable UI/UX Capabilities & Design Governance\nDesign, build, document, and govern a reusable library of UI/UX components, widgets, patterns, templates, and supporting utilities that developers across ServiceNow squads can adopt in their applications.\nProvide fit-for-purpose reusable capabilities across Service Portal, Employee Center, and UI Builder, taking account of the distinct architecture, lifecycle, and constraints of each experience technology.\nDefine component interfaces, configuration options, usage guidance, versioning, testing, security, accessibility, performance, and release practices so that shared assets remain reliable, upgrade-compatible, maintainable, and easy to consume.\nEstablish contribution, review, publishing, adoption, and deprecation processes for the shared library; maintain related documentation and reference implementations; and gather developer feedback to improve it.\nPartner with the ServiceNow UI/UX Designer to develop and maintain an internal design system that sets the visual and interaction language for Xponent Hub, the employee front door to application and workflow services.\nTranslate the design system into practical standards, design tokens, patterns, templates, and reusable coded assets that deliver a coherent, accessible, responsive, and user-friendly experience across Xponent Hub services.\nProvide technical guidance to developers on architecture, solution design, platform capabilities, coding standards, reuse, security, performance, maintainability, and upgrade considerations, while enabling teams to retain ownership of delivery.\nLead design and code reviews for higher-risk, shared, or complex solutions; document review outcomes and technical decisions; identify cross-application dependencies; and ensure significant issues are resolved before release.\nEvaluate when to use out-of-the-box capabilities, configure existing components, extend shared assets, or build custom solutions, balancing user needs, delivery effort, platform alignment, technical debt, and long-term supportability.\nStrategic Engineering Enablement\nThe Lead Developer will also work with the team to explore, define, and deliver the following strategic engineering outcomes:\nEstablish a standardised application deployment pipeline to improve release consistency, control, and efficiency.\nExplore and validate a secure approach for transferring ServiceNow Protected Platform (SPP) vibe-coded solutions to the on-premises environment, or, to deploy Build Agent directly onto the on-premises environment.\nDefine and implement an appropriate developer role and access model for ServiceNow developers, balancing delivery needs with security and governance requirements.\nUndertake other ad hoc technical explorations, proofs of concept, or short-term assignments as required to address emerging needs and support the App Dev squads.\nSystem Maintenance, Support & Documentation\nPerform sprint-based maintenance, including incident resolution, defect fixes, performance tuning, and enhancements.\nMonitor application health, investigate issues, and resolve incidents in accordance with agreed service levels.\nMaintain functional and technical documentation, including requirements, process flows, solution designs, configuration records, integration specifications, test evidence, deployment guides, and support procedures.\nCreate knowledge articles and conduct knowledge transfer to support teams and business users.\nUse operational feedback and sprint retrospectives to improve solution quality, delivery practices, and user experience.\n Minimum 5 years of relevant experience delivering enterprise ServiceNow solutions, including substantial hands-on experience in HRSD and App Engine.\nDemonstrated experience as a senior or lead developer providing technical direction, conducting solution and code reviews, and establishing development standards without becoming solely a supervisory role.\nExperience designing and governing reusable UI components, widgets, patterns, or design-system assets for adoption by multiple applications or development teams.\nExperience performing combined business analysis and development responsibilities and working directly with business stakeholders and UI/UX designers.\nHands-on ServiceNow development, solution architecture, technical design, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.\nTechnical leadership, design and code reviews, engineering standards, quality governance, risk identification, and developer coaching.\nReusable UI/UX component engineering, design-system implementation, accessibility, responsive design, performance, documentation, and cross-team adoption.\nBusiness analysis, stakeholder facilitation, requirements elicitation, process mapping, user-story development, and 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We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.\nTogether, we make the extraordinary happen.\nLearn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.\nScam Alert\nWe are aware of fraudulent job offers and impersonations of NCS recruiters. Phishing emails using convincing-looking but fake addresses are also commonly used to trick you into thinking that they come from official NCS sources.\nPlease note that all official communications from NCS Group will only be sent from verified corporate email addresses. Always check that the sender’s email address ends with the genuine NCS domain, @ncs.com.sg and beware of extra letters, symbols or misspellings. 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