Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 449,000 - 563,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm seeks a Customer Outcomes Principal Platform Architect in Riyadh to design and implement solutions in the ServiceNow Platform. This role demands technical advisory skills, with an emphasis on AI integration and enterprise architecture. Ideal candidates will have over 12 years of experience, travel flexibility, and strong consulting abilities. You will work closely with clients to enhance their digital transformation journeys, managing technical governance and providing expert guidance throughout the process.

Benefits

Flexible work personas

Equal opportunity employer

Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging AI into work processes.
• Ability to travel up to 80%.
• Experience leading architecture and design for large programs.

Responsibilities

• Help customers establish a technical foundation in ServiceNow Platform.
• Guide customers and partners through the implementation of solutions.
• Translate business information into architectural blueprints.

Skills

AI integration experience

Management consulting skills

Complex issue resolution

Effective communication

Enterprise architecture knowledge

Education

12+ years of progressive experience

ServiceNow certifications

Tools

Cloud application technologies

Job description

Overview

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

What you get to do in this role

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.
• 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.
• 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 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
• Industry domain expertise in
• 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.

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 the appropriate channel for assistance.

Export Control Regulations

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