Principal Platform Architect - SecOps and IRM

ServiceNow; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Architect with SecOps and IRM experience to lead technical engagements and design scalable solutions on the ServiceNow Platform. You will guide customers, partners, and internal teams, ensuring adherence to leading practices and long‑term platform health.

You will interact with executive stakeholders, platform owners, and development teams to translate business goals into architectural blueprints and roadmaps, while driving governance and global

Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision‑making, or problem‑solving.
• 15+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• CTA, CMA is a plus
• Must be certified and experienced in SecOps, IRM, or both
• Must have 3+ years of end‑to‑end architecture experience across SecOps and/or IRM modules
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently withincomplexenvironment
• Experience driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non‑technical
• Industry domain expertise in TMT (Telecommunications, Media, and Technology) and SI (System Integrators) desirable
• Large program experience leading architecture and design
• Enterprise architecture experience
• Cloud application technology experience
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF, IT4IT, etc.

Responsibilities

• Guide customers, partners, and teams to deliver successful solutions.
• Share knowledge across multiple workflows.
• Build relationships with customer leaders to align ServiceNow with digital transformation.
• Translate goals to outcomes into a customer roadmap.
• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint.
• Engage with enterprise architects to position ServiceNow as the platform standard.
• Manage technical governance and delivery operating model.
• Maintain instance health and reduce technical debt.
• Support sales with scoping and estimation.
• Contribute leading practices for the ServiceNow platform.
• Maintain skills and certifications
• Mentor others to support development.
• Be a recognized industry expert contributing best practices.
• Participate in complex engagements across multiple workflows.
• Collaborate on global rollout plans to expand the platform.
• Involve in presales and promote the architect role.

Skills

AI integration

End-to-end architecture

Architecture leadership

TOGAF IT4IT familiarity

Cloud application tech

Executive communication

Travel up to 25%

Complex problem solving

Mentoring

Digital transformation

Industry domain (TMT/SI)

Large programs

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Frameworks familiarity

Education

15+ years professional services experience

CTA, CMA is a plus

Job description

Company 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

Principal Platform Architect - Secops and IRM experience preferred

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 1000's of customer engagements.

What you get to do in this role:

The Customer Outcomes Senior Principal Platform Architect is a technical role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that improve outcomes. The Senior Principal Platform Architect ensures customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the technical health of the platform. This role is 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.
• Maintain skills / certifications
• Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
• Seen as an expert across the industry and an active contributor of leading practices.
• Involved in more complex engagements providing expertise across multiple workflows.
• Work with the extended account team to form global roll out plans, extending platform expansion.
• Participate in presales opportunities and promote the platform architect role into all accounts.

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.
• 15+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• CTA, CMA is a plus
• Must be certified and experienced in SecOps, IRM, or both
• Must have 3+ years of end‑to‑end architecture experience across SecOps and/or IRM modules
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently withincomplexenvironment
• Experience driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non‑technical
• Industry domain expertise in TMT (Telecommunications, Media, and Technology) and SI (System Integrators) desirable
• Large program experience leading architecture and design
• Enterprise architecture experience
• Cloud application technology experience
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF, IT4IT, etc.

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, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, 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

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