Remote ServiceNow Solutions Architect: Lead Platform Design

Cognizant; Bismarck (ND); Remote; USD 133,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a ServiceNow Solution Architect for a remote US-based role. You will lead design, governance, and delivery of enterprise ServiceNow solutions supporting critical business operations and digital initiatives.

You'll collaborate with stakeholders, architects, developers, and delivery teams to drive platform improvements, provide hands-on development, and guide agile delivery across backlogs, sprints, and deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a ServiceNow Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or Lead Technical Consultant.
• Deep expertise in ServiceNow ITSM, including Incident, Problem, Change, Request, Knowledge Management, Service Catalog, and related platform capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with Business Rules, Client Scripts, Script Includes, UI Policies, UI Actions, Flow Designer, Workflows, ACLs, Notifications, Update Sets, and integrations.
• Proven experience creating technical solution designs and presenting architecture recommendations to governance boards and senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including demand management, backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing, release management, and deployments.
• Experience leading distributed technical teams and mentoring ServiceNow developers.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly demand backlog meetings and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize new initiatives and enhancement requests.
• Design scalable, secure, and sustainable ServiceNow solutions aligned with business and enterprise architecture standards.
• Present solution designs, technical recommendations, and architectural decisions through governance and Architecture Review Board forums.
• Manage change requests, deployment planning, release coordination, and production readiness activities.
• Perform hands-on ServiceNow development and configuration while providing technical leadership to the delivery team.
• Drive Agile delivery activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.

Skills

ServiceNow ITSM

Solution Architecture

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

ServiceNow scripting

Governance

Tools

REST

SOAP

IntegrationHub

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a ServiceNow Solution Architect for a remote US-based role. You will lead design, governance, and delivery of enterprise ServiceNow solutions supporting critical business operations and digital initiatives.

You'll collaborate with stakeholders, architects, developers, and delivery teams to drive platform improvements, provide hands-on development, and guide agile delivery across backlogs, sprints, and deployments.