Absa Group

ITOM Configuration Specialist

Absa Group  •  Republic of Kenya (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

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, 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.

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  • Reconciliation and Remediation: Resolving duplicate CI issues, correcting orphaned records, and tackling stale or outdated CIs (e.g., servers not scanned by Discovery in over 30 days).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

About Absa Group

Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.

We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
2018
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