Senior Manager, Platform Architecture, Public Sector

ServiceNow; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Senior Manager of Platform Architecture to lead a team of Platform Architects. You will drive architectural excellence, align with major industry priorities, and advance ServiceNow solutions across enterprise engagements.

The role emphasizes AI, platform innovation, and a customer-first culture while guiding prescriptive roadmaps and governance across complex programs. You will build executive relationships, staff engagements, and collaborate with pre-sales, expert

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading and developing architecture teams.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow platform and multi-product suite.
• Experience advising Fortune 50-500 companies on digital transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Platform Architects to deliver strategic customer outcomes.
• Maintain executive-level relationships across accounts.
• Translate business objectives into prescriptive roadmaps with Customer Success Executives.
• Guide solution design, governance, and modernization efforts.
• Support pre-sales motions and contribute to Impact initiatives.

Skills

Team leadership

Architecture leadership

Executive relationships

AI/automation trends

ServiceNow platform knowledge

Pre/Post sales

Digital transformation

Client engagement

Roadmapping

Strong stakeholder management

Tools

ServiceNow platform

Job description

The Senior Manager of Platform Architecture leads a team of Platform Architects to deliver strategic customer outcomes through architectural excellence and industry alignment. This role ensures alignment with major industry priorities, drives adoption of ServiceNow solutions, and fosters continuous learning in areas like AI and platform innovation. The manager builds and maintains executive-level relationships, while guiding teams to translate business objectives into prescriptive roadmaps while guiding solution design, governance, and modernization efforts. Additionally, the role provides architectural oversight across engagements, supports pre-sales motions, and champions a customer-first culture that reflects ServiceNow's core values.

What You Get to Do in This Role:

Maintain Industry Alignment:

• Maintain connection and alignment to drive success within the Major Industry teams by:
• Ensuring alignment of architectural initiatives with Major Areas priorities
• Align with CEG Segment Leads and Accounts Teams to provide effective staffing across Impact engagements
• Identify and address skillset gaps where needed to support customers within industry
• Identify industry trends and enable and coach platform architects in applying ServiceNow solutions to industry challenges

Lead & Develop a High-Performing Team

• Manage a team of Platform Architects with responsibility for coaching, performance assessment and feedback, creation of development plans, and quality oversight.
• Ensure team delivery excellence, achievement of KPIs, and consistent customer experience across all engagements.
• Ensure proper staffing for all engagements by matching skills, experience, and certifications to project needs, optimizing team performance and customer outcomes
• Attract, recruit, and hire top talent for Platform Architect and Sr. Manager roles, leveraging industry networks
• Embed a customer-first mindset and foster continuous learning, especially in AI and platform innovation.
• Foster welcoming culture that embraces and models ServiceNow's core values.

Drive Strategic Customer Outcomes

• Drive strategic customer outcomes through the coaching and enablement of Platform Architects to:
• Develop and own strategic relationships with Enterprise Architects, CIO/CTO, C-suite executives, and business leaders across 1-4 accounts.
• Translate customer business objectives into a prescriptive, value-focused roadmap jointly developed with Customer Success Executives.
• Identify opportunities to apply ServiceNow's AI, automation, and data capabilities to improve business outcomes, workflows, and productivity.
• Execute and deliver Impact Accelerators and Initiatives that are aligned for PA delivery.
• Provide customers guidance on solution design, governance, technical decision points, and modernization of legacy architectures.
• Collaborate with Expert Services and/or Partner implementation resource by providing architectural oversight and best practice guidance.
• Engage in Pre-Sales Support
• Collaborate with CEG GTM to assist with Impact pre-sales motions.
• Advocate ServiceNow best practices, AI-powered capabilities, emerging industry use cases, and industry-aligned accelerators.
• Support pre-sales motions with guidance on customer product adoption readiness.

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.

Leadership & Experience

• Proven track record leading and developing high-performing architecture teams

Client Engagement

• Experience advising Fortune 50-500 companies on digital transformation initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to influence and engage C-suite stakeholders ideally in the Public Sector
• Track record delivering solutions through expert services and/or partner ecosystems

Domain Expertise

• Deep understanding of middle and back-office transformation
• Knowledge of ServiceNow platform (multi-product suite / saas experience preferred)
• Pre and post sales
• Strong grasp of AI/automation trends with ability to connect AI capabilities to measurable business outcomes

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.