ITOM Solution Architect

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking an ITOM Solution Architect to lead technical delivery of ITOM across CMDB and Service Mapping, with a focus on AI-enabled observability. The role blends deep technical design with executive advisory, delivering evidence-based assessments and guiding customers toward trusted operational data.

The ideal candidate will architect data foundations, event intelligence, and the agentic layer, while shaping multi-million-dollar transformation programs and mentoring delivery teams

Qualifications

• Substantial ServiceNow ITOM delivery experience at architect or lead level on large programs.
• Deep CMDB/CSDM, IRE, reconciliation design, and Discovery pattern design.
• Fluency in ITOM Visibility and ITOM Health, including enterprise-scale Event Management design.
• Experience applying AI to operational work with sound judgement.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, containers and Kubernetes, and related security constraints.
• REST, MID Server architecture, credential handling, and event ingestion patterns.
• Executive presence with ability to articulate design to CIOs and leaders across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect data foundation for ITOM: Discovery, Service Graph Connectors, Agent Client Collector, CMDB/CSDM design, IRE and reconciliation, Service Mapping strategy.
• Design AI-ready data populations and trustworthy foundations.
• Define operational success metrics: noise reduction, alert coverage, MTTR, service health accuracy.
• Design and govern agentic layer with AI agents, including guardrails before automation.
• Support pre-sales scoping with realistic effort estimates and sequencing.
• Mentor consultants toward architect capability and contribute reusable IP.

Skills

ServiceNow ITOM

CMDB architecture

Discovery pattern design

ITOM Health

Event Management

AI in operations

Hybrid cloud

Kubernetes

REST integration

Executive presence

Tools

MID Server

Service Graph Connectors

AI Agent Studio

Job description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

ServiceNow is moving from a workflow platform with AI features to an AI platform where agents do the work. That shift depends entirely on whether the operational data underneath it can be trusted, which is the problem this role owns.

The ITOM Solution Architect designs and leads technical delivery of ServiceNow ITOM solutions across CMDB and service data foundations, Discovery, Service Mapping, ITOM Health, event intelligence, and service observability, and increasingly designs the agentic layer built on top of them. The role moves fluidly between deep technical design and executive advisory, with the judgement to give customers evidence-based assessments of their operational maturity rather than aspirational ones.

What you'll do:

Architect the data foundation

• Own ITOM architecture: Discovery, Service Graph Connectors, Agent Client Collector, CMDB/CSDM design, IRE and reconciliation, and Service Mapping strategy
• Design and data foundations AI-ready and trustworthy
• Design sustainable data population architecture, including MID Server and collection topologies that hold up under real enterprise network and security constraints

Design the event intelligence and observability layer

• Architect ITOM Health and Service Observability with SLO-based Service Reliability Management as one signal-to-service model
• Define operational success: noise reduction, alert-to-CI coverage, MTTR, and service health accuracy

Design and govern the agentic layer

• Design where ServiceNow Otto and AI agents fit operationally, including alert triage, detecting and correcting CMDB issues, and autonomous SLO creation
• Build custom agentic workflows in AI Agent Studio where out-of-box coverage stops
• Build guardrails before automation, especially in regulated environments

Advise and lead

• Give honest current-state assessments, including telling customers when they are not ready for the use case they came in asking for
• Translate architecture into business outcomes for CIOs and infrastructure leaders: risk, cost, and toil avoided
• Flag integration, data-quality, and scalability risk before it hits delivery
• Keep architecture consistent with engagement managers, technical consultants, and platform architects
• Support pre-sales scoping with realistic effort and sequencing
• Contribute reusable IP to the practice and mentor consultants toward architect capability
• Advise on release cadence and upgrade sequencing as part of architecture, not an afterthought
  
• Shape the architecture of multi-million-dollar transformation programs from the first design conversation
• Work on the problem that determines whether autonomous IT actually works: trustworthy operational data
• Join a practice that invests in architect development and values honest delivery over optimistic scoping
  

Qualifications

Required:

• Substantial ServiceNow ITOM delivery experience at architect or lead level on large, multi-workstream programs
• Demonstrated depth in CMDB architecture, CSDM alignment, IRE and reconciliation design, and Discovery pattern design
• Working command of ITOM Visibility and ITOM Health, including enterprise-scale Event Management design
• Practical experience applying AI to operational work, and the judgement to know where it helps and where it does not
• Infrastructure and cloud fluency: hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, containers and Kubernetes, and the network and security constraints that affect discovery and monitoring
• Integration fluency: REST, MID Server architecture, credential and certificate handling, and event and telemetry ingestion patterns
• Executive presence, with the ability to hold a design position under challenge and explain it without jargon
• A collaborative, one-team posture across sales, solution consulting, and delivery

Preferred

• Experience designing agentic solutions in AI Agent Studio
• Experience governing AI through AI Control Tower, including scope, autonomy, escalation, and value measurement
• Adjacent ITAM (HAM/SAM) or SecOps experience, given shared CMDB dependencies
• Scripting fluency sufficient to review and debug pattern, transform, and event-rule logic

Certifications

• Required: CIS-Data Foundations, CIS-Discovery, CIS-Service Mapping, and CIS-Event Management, held or obtained within an agreed window
• Preferred: CSA; ArchX, CTA, or CMA for architect-track candidates; and current experience with Now Assist, ServiceNow Otto, and AI Agents

Additional Information

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