Senior 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.

Job Description

The Customer Outcomes Senior Platform Architect is an advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that deliver outcomes. The Senior Platform Architect ensures customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the 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 an 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 an architectural advisor across multiple engagements to guide customers, partners, and internal team members to provide successful customer solutions.
• Provide a variety of architectural knowledge across multiple workflows.
• Develop relationships with CoEI 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.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• 8+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• Management consulting experience
• Language proficiency in both English and German (C level) is required
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup-paced" environment
• Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Industry domain expertise
• Large program experience leading architecture and design
• Enterprise architecture experience
• Cloud application technology experience
• ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow
• Ability to travel
• Right to work in the country where you have applied