ServiceNow

Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in a professional services organization or equivalent education/experience
  • Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with the ServiceNow Platform
  • Management consulting experience
  • Ability to integrate AI into work processes and decision-making
  • ServiceNow certifications in relevant workflows
  • Industry expertise in Financial Services or Public Sector preferred
  • Experience in enterprise architecture and large program architecture/design

Responsibilities

  • Work with customer teams to structure and implement technical solutions
  • Serve as a technical expert guiding customers and partners across multiple engagements
  • Develop customer relationships to align ServiceNow with their digital transformation
  • Create a customer roadmap by translating business goals into actionable outcomes
  • Design architectural blueprints to achieve complex objectives
  • Engage with Enterprise Architects to standardize ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform
  • Manage technical governance and ensure platform health by reducing technical debt

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with various work personas
  • Opportunity for professional development and mentoring
  • Access to cutting-edge resources and methodologies
  • Collaborative culture focused on customer success
  • Involvement in significant digital transformation projects
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Overview

Architects play a critical role in guiding customers through their digital transformation journey through leading solutioning and scoping discussions during pre-sales (role and level dependent) and driving the successful delivery of strategic, multi-workflow, term-based projects.

Architects provide thought leadership, best practices, and expert guidance to ensure customers achieve long-term value from the ServiceNow platform. They engage with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology solutions, playing a pivotal role in scaling ServiceNow expertise across internal and external teams. By establishing strong governance frameworks, reducing technical debt and enabling scalable solutions, they help customers optimize their platform strategy while maintaining agility and long-term sustainability.

Unique Job Responsibilities

- Act as an expert across an assigned term of contracts, typically engaged in ServiceNow's largest most strategically important accounts, providing architectural guidance, technical governance, and best practices
- Build strong relationships with customer technical and business leaders, to align ServiceNow solutions with business strategy
- Actively collaborate with GTM, Delivery, and other joint teams to bridge the gap between sales, solutioning, and execution
- Serve as an active contributor of leading practices, standards and thought leadership related to the ServiceNow platform
- Provide a point of view to the ServiceNow product strategy team to steer the product roadmap

Platform Architect Specifics

- This is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping customers establish a solid technical foundation in the ServiceNow platform and design solutions to drive business outcomes through adoption
- Ensure customers leverage leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the overall technical health of the platform
- Guide ServiceNow, partner and customer employees on the team to deliver a solution on the technical architecture designed for long-term success
- Interface with the customers across Executive, Platform Owner, Enterprise Architects and development teams by structuring and implementing solutions

Job Description

You will be part of the Customer Outcomes team. Our purpose is to accelerate platform adoption and improve customer outcomes. We do this through a portfolio of services, delivered by outstanding consultants, using our ecosystem of partners, our leading practices, methodologies and tools based on our experiences from thousands of customer engagements.

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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
  • 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 a 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
  • Maintain skills / certifications on relevant technologies and workflows
  • Support the professional development of others through 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
  • Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Resident
  • 12+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
  • Minimum 2 years of ServiceNow Platform experience is required
  • Management consulting experience
  • Ability to travel up to 20%
  • Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a fast-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
  • Industry domain expertise in Financial Services or Public Sector preferred
  • Large program experience leading architecture and design
  • Enterprise architecture experience
  • Cloud application technology experience


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 and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

About ServiceNow

ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and other countries. The company offers service management solutions, including incident, problem, change, request, and cost management as well as service catalogs; and IT, HR, facilities, and field service management solutions. It also provides IT operations management solutions covering service mapping, delivery, and assurance solutions; business management solutions such as financial management, project portfolio suite, vendor performance management, and performance analytics as well as governance, risk, and compliance; and application development services.

ServiceNow Careers

Join the dynamic team at ServiceNow, a global leader in digital workflow solutions, where innovation and leadership converge to shape the future of work. At ServiceNow, we offer more than just job opportunities; we provide a platform for professional growth and a chance to be part of a culture that values diversity, creativity, and continuous learning.

Work You’ll Do

Embark on a career journey with ServiceNow and contribute to the world’s leading enterprises' digital transformation. Our team is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies that improve how people work. With ServiceNow, you will use your skills to impact businesses and industries profoundly, driving efficiency and innovation.

Join Our Market-Leading Team

ServiceNow is not just another technology company. We are a team that thrives on diversity and leadership, fostering an inclusive environment that promotes growth and development. Our commitment to diversity training ensures that every team member can achieve their potential.

Innovative Work

ServiceNow is home to more than 10,000 dedicated professionals who lead the charge in digital workflows and enterprise solutions. As part of our team, you will engage in projects that merge technology with practical applications, creating revolutionary products that advance how services are delivered and managed.

Career Development

At ServiceNow, your career trajectory is filled with boundless opportunities. We support your growth with robust training programs, leadership development courses, and access to global challenges. Whether you are looking for an internship, full-time position, or leadership role, ServiceNow equips you with the tools to excel.

Be Part of a Great Team

Working at ServiceNow means being part of a community that values teamwork and innovation. Our collaborative environment encourages networking and sharing ideas, making our workplace vibrant and dynamic. The benefits of joining ServiceNow extend beyond comprehensive health and wellness; they include fostering professional connections and friendships that last a lifetime.

Explore Job Opportunities and Internships

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a recent graduate, ServiceNow offers a range of employment options to suit your career goals. From internships that provide real-world experience to full-time positions that challenge you to leverage your expertise, we are committed to hiring the best talent.

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Size
16,881 employees
Market Cap
$76.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$118.5 million
Founded
2004
5 Year Trend
+33.5%
Revenue
$4.5 billion
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