About the Role
Elara Caring is seeking a Senior Director of ServiceNow Platform & Development to play a pivotal role in advancing the home care industry. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by developing an amazing team and driving the company's mission of providing the Right Care, at the Right Time, in the Right Place.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the multi-year ServiceNow platform roadmap.
- Establish and enforce governance models across ServiceNow modules, including ITSM, ITOM, HRSD, CSM, SecOps, and GRC.
- Ensure architectural integrity and prevent platform sprawl.
- Align ServiceNow initiatives with enterprise digital transformation strategy.
- Drive adoption of out-of-box capabilities while minimizing over-customization.
- Lead internal developers, administrators, architects, and third-party partners.
- Establish development standards, code review practices, and CI/CD discipline.
- Ensure compliance with ServiceNow best practices and upgrade readiness.
- Oversee integrations with EHR, ERP, and other healthcare systems.
- Maintain documentation, configuration management, and manage technical debt backlog.
- Develop and manage the enterprise ServiceNow demand intake process.
- Prioritize initiatives based on strategic value, compliance, risk, and ROI.
- Implement structured sprint and release planning methodologies.
- Own capacity planning across development, administration, QA, and architecture teams.
- Forecast staffing needs, including FTEs and vendor resources.
- Partner with Finance to manage platform costs and optimize licensing.
- Develop executive dashboards showing roadmap progress, sprint velocity and predictability, backlog health/ageing, budget performance, risk indicators, and value realization metrics.
- Translate technical delivery status into business impact through clear narrative summaries.
- Present regular platform performance reviews to executive leadership.
- Establish KPIs tied to automation gains, ticket reduction, SLA improvement, and workflow efficiency.
- Ensure platform configurations support HIPAA and 21st Century Cures Act interoperability where applicable.
- Partner with Security and Compliance teams for audit readiness.
- Oversee role-based access control, and data governance within ServiceNow.
- Support SOX controls and internal audit documentation as required.
- Manage platform budget, including licenses, vendors, and development resources.
- Track automation ROI and operational efficiency gains.
- Reduce shadow IT workflow tools and drive platform consolidation.
- Deliver measurable reductions in manual processes across departments.
- Promotes Elara Caring’s philosophy, mission statement and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.
- Maintains patient and staff privacy and confidentiality pursuant to HIPAA Privacy Final Rule.
- Performs other duties/projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Experience with enterprise resource capacity planning and allocation.
- Ability to establish and apply project prioritization frameworks aligned to strategic objectives.
- Strong knowledge of risk management methodologies and mitigation planning.
- Experience tracking and measuring benefits realization across programs and initiatives.
- Ability to design and implement enterprise governance structures.
- Expertise in ROI modeling, capital planning, and financial performance analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to drive margin improvement and operational efficiency initiatives.
- Working knowledge of healthcare reimbursement models, including Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care environments.
- Experience developing executive dashboards for reporting, decision-making, and performance tracking.
- Experience supporting EHR optimization initiatives and clinical or operational technology platforms.
- Proficiency with data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Familiarity with HL7 and FHIR integration standards.
- Experience with CRM and care coordination platforms.
- Foundational understanding of data architecture principles and analytics strategy.
- Executive presence with the ability to engage senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Strong structured and concise communication skills.
- Demonstrated change management capability within complex organizations.
- Ability to translate operational and technical details into strategic business insights.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
- Deep expertise across multiple ServiceNow modules, including ITSM, ITOM, HRSD, CSM, SecOps, GRC, CMDB architecture, Integration Hub, Flow Designer, and Performance Analytics.
- Strong understanding of REST and SOAP integrations and enterprise API strategy.
- Experience supporting DevOps and CI/CD practices within the ServiceNow ecosystem.
- Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies.
- Experience managing ServiceNow platform upgrade and lifecycle management processes.
Skills
- ServiceNow platform roadmap development
- ServiceNow governance
- ITSM
- ITOM
- HRSD
- CSM
- SecOps
- GRC
- Architectural integrity
- Platform sprawl prevention
- Enterprise digital transformation
- Out-of-box capability adoption
- Customization minimization
- Team leadership
- Development standards
- Code review practices
- CI/CD discipline
- ServiceNow best practices
- Upgrade readiness
- EHR integration
- ERP integration
- Healthcare system integration
- Documentation management
- Configuration management
- Technical debt management
- Demand intake process management
- Project prioritization
- Sprint planning
- Release planning
- Capacity planning
- Staffing forecasting
- Budget management
- License optimization
- Executive dashboard development
- Roadmap progress tracking
- Sprint velocity tracking
- Backlog health monitoring
- Budget performance tracking
- Risk indicator monitoring
- Value realization metrics
- Business impact translation
- Platform performance review
- KPI establishment
- Automation gains measurement
- Ticket reduction
- SLA improvement
- Workflow efficiency improvement
- HIPAA compliance
- 21st Century Cures Act interoperability
- Security and Compliance partnership
- Audit readiness
- Role-based access control
- Data governance
- SOX controls support
- Internal audit documentation
- Platform budget management
- Vendor management
- Development resource management
- Automation ROI tracking
- Operational efficiency gains tracking
- Shadow IT reduction
- Platform consolidation
- Manual process reduction
- Quality of care promotion
- Patient and staff privacy
- HIPAA Privacy Final Rule compliance
- Enterprise resource capacity planning
- Project prioritization frameworks
- Risk management methodologies
- Mitigation planning
- Benefits realization tracking
- Enterprise governance structures
- ROI modeling
- Capital planning
- Financial performance analysis
- Margin improvement initiatives
- Operational efficiency initiatives
- Healthcare reimbursement models
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Managed care environments
- Executive dashboard development
- EHR optimization support
- Clinical technology platforms
- Operational technology platforms
- Data visualization
- Reporting tools
- Power BI
- Tableau
- HL7 integration standards
- FHIR integration standards
- CRM platforms
- Care coordination platforms
- Data architecture principles
- Analytics strategy
- Executive presence
- Stakeholder engagement
- Communication skills
- Change management
- Strategic business insight translation
- Stakeholder influence
- ITOM
- HRSD
- CSM
- SecOps
- GRC
- CMDB architecture
- Integration Hub
- Flow Designer
- Performance Analytics
- REST integrations
- SOAP integrations
- Enterprise API strategy
- DevOps support
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum delivery methodologies
- ServiceNow upgrade management
- ServiceNow lifecycle management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000-$225,000
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Tuition reimbursement for full-time staff
- Continuing education opportunities for all employees at no cost
- Opportunities for advancement
- Comprehensive insurance plans for medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(K) with employer match
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Family and pet bereavement
- Pet insurance
About the Company
- At Elara Caring, we have a unique opportunity to play a huge role in the growth of an entire home care industry.
- Here, each employee has the chance to make a real difference by carrying out our mission every day.
- Join our elite team of healthcare professionals, providing the Right Care, at the Right Time, in the Right Place.
- At Elara Caring, we care where you are and believe the best place for your care is where you live.
- We know there’s no place like home, and that’s why our teams continue to provide high-quality care to more than 60,000 patients each day in their preferred home setting.
- Wherever our patients call home and wherever they are on their journey of health, we care.
- Each team member has a part to play in this mission.
- Being a part of something this great starts by carrying out our mission every day through your true calling: developing an amazing team of compassionate and dedicated healthcare providers.
- To continue to be an industry pioneer in delivering unparalleled care, we need a Senior Director of ServiceNow Platform & Development with commitment and compassion.
- Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
- Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
- They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements.
- Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
- If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruiting@elara.com.
