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Service Design Specialist

Cambridge, United KingdomFull-time2026-09-01 → 2026-10-08

Core

Translates business and technical requirements into practical, end-to-end service designs, creating models, documentation, and readiness evidence to ensure services are supportable, resilient, secure, and ready to operate from day one.

Role type

Service Design Specialist (IT Service Management)

Builds

End-to-end service designs, Service Design Packages, operating models, process flows, and operational readiness evidence.

Domain

IT Service Management / Operational Governance (via careerplan.io/jobs/92334085632-service-design-specialist-at-arm)

Required skills

ITIL 4 practices, Service Design, Service Configuration, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Enablement, Release Management, Knowledge Management, Service Level Management, Continual Improvement

Preferred skills

ServiceNow, SRE concepts (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs), DevOps, CI/CD, Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, Platform Engineering, Automation, AIOps

Technologies

ServiceNow, CMDB, CSDM, Service Catalogue, ITSM platforms

Responsibilities

Support end-to-end design of new IT services and significant changes; Facilitate service design discovery sessions and translate requirements into clear design requirements; Create and maintain Service Design Packages, service models, and process flows; Define service ownership, support tiers, roles, escalation paths, and on-call arrangements; Design operational processes for incident, major incident, request, problem, change, release, knowledge, and continual improvement; Embed availability, capacity, resilience, security, and observability requirements; Translate service designs into tooling requirements including service catalogue entries and workflows; Support service transition activities including knowledge transfer and operational handover.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC