Principal Platform Architect

**Company Description**
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

The Customer Outcomes Principal **Platform Architect** is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that improve outcomes. The Principal Platform Architect ensures customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the technical health of the platform. This is a consultative role focused on guiding ServiceNow, partner, and customer employees on the engagement team to provide a solution on a technical architecture designed for long-term success.
- You will work with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects, and development teams during the selling, structuring and implementation of solutions.
- Be a technical expert across multiple engagements to guide customers, partners, and internal team members to provide successful customer solutions.
- Provide a variety of knowledge across multiple workflows.
- Develop relationships with technical and business leaders at the customer site to understand the role of ServiceNow in their digital transformation vision.
- Translate goals to outcomes into a customer roadmap.
- Translate business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve complex goals.
- Manage technical governance, and an delivery operating model and governance.
- Ensure instance health by working with the engagement team to reduce technical debt and align to ServiceNow leading practices.
- Support the sales effort by scoping and estimating the engagement and change orders.
- Be an active contributor of leading practices and expertise related to the ServiceNow platform.
- Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.

**Qualifications** To be successful in this role you have**:

- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
- Management consulting experience
- Ability to travel up to 80%
- Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup paced" environment
- Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
- Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non-technical
- ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow
- Large program experience leading architecture and design
- Enterprise architecture experience

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**Additional Information** Work Personas**

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work. Learn more here.

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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