Systems Engineer - Employee Experience Platforms

**About Our Company** We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world. **Job Description** Design, implement, evolve, and support enterprise employee experience platforms with a primary focus on ServiceNow and related digital workplace technologies. Partner closely with business and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions that simplify how employees access services, information, and support. This role combines platform engineering, solution design, technical leadership, and delivery execution to drive adoption, stability, and continuous improvement of employee-facing technology solutions. Success requires strong technical expertise, platform strategy, systems thinking, and the ability to influence stakeholders and lead complex initiatives from concept through implementation. **Why This Role Matters** This role sits at the intersection of technology engineering, employee experience, and business transformation. As the organization modernizes how employees interact with services and support, this engineer will: - Design and deliver intuitive, scalable employee experience solutions. - Drive technical excellence and adoption of strategic platforms such as ServiceNow. - Lead implementation of solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and user satisfaction. - Influence how AI, automation, and emerging technologies enhance the employee experience. - Partner with business and technology leaders to turn strategic objectives into reliable, measurable outcomes. - Ensure critical employee experience platforms remain secure, stable, scalable, and aligned with business needs. \*\*This is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact by engineering the technology experiences employees depend on every day while helping shape the future of the digital workplace.\*\* **Key Responsibilities** **Platform Engineering & Solution Design** - Design, configure, implement, and support enterprise employee experience platforms and related technology solutions. - Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable, maintainable technical architectures and system designs. - Lead solution design and technical implementation efforts for ServiceNow and employee experience capabilities. - Identify opportunities to enhance usability, automation, performance, and operational efficiency through platform enhancements and emerging technologies, including AI. - Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and operational standards. **Technical Delivery & Implementation** - Lead technical delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives, including ServiceNow platform enhancements and AI capabilities. - Partner with product owners, architects, developers, and business teams to manage requirements, solution design, testing, deployment, and support activities. - Drive implementation of new functionality while balancing technical quality, risk management, and business outcomes. - Participate in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. **Platform Operations & Continuous Improvement** - Monitor platform health, reliability, and performance to ensure a high-quality user experience. - Trouble…