Senior Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud solutions is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Architect to drive technical governance and solution design on the ServiceNow platform. The role involves collaborating with CIOs and enterprise architects to translate business objectives into actionable strategies and ensuring best practices for organizational success. The ideal candidate has substantial experience in management consulting, particularly in cloud technology, with a focus on achieving impactful customer outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Consulting experience preferred with Big 4 or top strategy firms.
• Must have extensive large program experience.
• Capability to integrate AI into processes and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
• Establish technical governance processes for successful implementations.
• Guide customers on the use of ServiceNow for digital transformation.

Skills

Customer Focus

Drives Results

Consultative Perspective

Strategic Mindset

Education

Enterprise Architect experience

8+ years in management consulting leadership roles

Minimum 2 years on ServiceNow Platform

Tools

ServiceNow

Salesforce (SFDC)

Oracle Cloud

Job 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 Senior Principal Platform Architect is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a strong technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that drive business outcomes. This entails establishing and supporting best practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the overall technical health of the platform. This is a highly consultative role that does not perform configuration on the platform, but guides partner and customer resources to deliver best practices. This role interfaces with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects and development teams during the selling, structuring and implementation of solutions.

An ideal candidate will have a achieved a senior level position as an enterprise architect and successful track record in management consulting, (professional services firms or cloud software company), focused on technology strategy, governance, data and solution design. They will have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success from strategic planning functions including business value identification, road mapping, as well as advising and defining successful execution strategies including governance frameworks and managing large enterprise programs.

What you get to do in this role :

Developing strong relationships with CIO and business leaders to understand the client’s vision and how ServiceNow plays in their digital transformation journey. Translate business objectives to outcomes into a customer roadmap

Responsible for analyzing and translating business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve complex business objectives

Engages with customer enterprise architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform integrated with the core systems

Establish and manage technical governance processes

Drive solid instance health by reviewing and guiding the remediation of configurations that do not align to ServiceNow best practices.

Work with clients and ServiceNow teams to establish delivery operating model governance to ensure successful go-lives, end-user adoption and on-going support

Advocate / champion ServiceNow’s advisory and expert services best practices and industry use cases with clients

Contribute thought leadership (methodology and white papers) on how Advisory, Expert Services, and Co-Delivery can optimize to achieve customer outcomes

Guide a customer down a prescriptive solution design and manage through the technical implementation decision points

Define solutions across the platform that align to out of the box capabilities

Support the sales effort scoping and estimation that refine the customer vision and capabilities into activities and estimates

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

Consulting Experience

Management Consulting Experience preferred, (Big 4, Strategy Firm) or OEM software or Cloud company

8+ years of experience in management consulting leadership roles at a top-tier consulting company focused on technology (Digital / SaaS / Enterprise Software)

Fortune 500 or OEM Software or Cloud CO enterprise architect

Experience working with functional business leaders

Experience working with functional business leaders

Experience identifying business objectives and developing outcome-focused roadmaps

Experience working with large Consulting / SI organizations.

Large Program Experience

12+ years large program experience leading architecture and design

Enterprise Architect role and relevant experience.

Cloud Application Technology Experience

Significant role in implementation of one or more; SFDC, WKDAY, Success Factors, Oracle Cloud, Remedy

Minimum 2 years of ServiceNow Platform Experience is required

Familiarity with Enterprise Workflow Platform

Customer Focus

Drives Results

Courage

Consultative Perspective

Manages Complexity

Strategic Mindset

Technical Development

Travel up to 25%

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 (https : / / www.servicenow.com / content / dam / servicenow-assets / public / en-us / doc-type / other-document / careers / new-world-of-work-personas.pdf) .

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.

Accommodations

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [emailprotected] for assistance.

Export Control Regulations

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.

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