Senior Principal Platform Architect

Job Description

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.

What you get to do in this role:

• 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.
• Engage with the customer’s Enterprise Architects to drives enterprise platform vision, aligns architecture strategy to long-term business and AI Transformation
• Provide a variety of knowledge across multiple workflows and position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform standard, integrated with their core applications
• 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.
• Engage with the customer's Enterprise Architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform standard, integrated with the customer's core applications.
• 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.
• Be a technical advisory role to drives discussions and workshops with relevant stakeholders to the ServiceNow product strategy team to steer the product roadmap
• Be an active contributor of leading practices and expertise related to the ServiceNow platform.
• Maintain skills of data modeling, data governance, CMDB design, data strategies, platform security, and integration
• Involved in more complex engagements providing expertise across multiple workflows
• Lead architecture integration across ITSM, ITOM, SecOps, CSM, HRSD, SPM, App Engine, etc.
• Provide cross-domain design authority oversight.
• Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
• Seen as an expert across the industry and an active contributor of leading practices.
• Involved in more complex engagements providing expertise across multiple workflows.
• Work with the extended account team to form global roll out plans, extending platform expansion.
• Participate in presales opportunities and promote the platform architect role into all accounts.

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.
• 15+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• Management consulting experience
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup paced" environment
• Experience 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
• Industry domain expertise in multi-geo enterprise / providers
• Large program experience leading architecture and design
• Enterprise architecture experience
• Cloud application technology experience
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF, IT4IT, etc
• Certified Master Architect (CMA) Certified Technical Architect (CTA) in good standing