Senior Platform Architect - Manufacturing

ServiceNow; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Platform Architect specializing in the manufacturing sector. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise to guide customers through their digital transformation journeys, ensuring they maximize the benefits of the ServiceNow platform. Your responsibilities will include establishing best practices for technical governance, providing strategic insights, and fostering strong relationships with business leaders. This position offers the opportunity to work in a flexible, remote environment while making a significant impact on customer success. If you have a passion for innovation and a track record in platform architecture, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Professional Development Opportunities

Paid Time Off

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise or platform architecture with a focus on technology strategy.
• Experience in managing cloud application technologies and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Guide customers in their digital transformation using ServiceNow.
• Develop standards for maintaining ServiceNow architecture and platform health.

Skills

AI Integration

Technical Governance

Platform Management

Solution Design

Customer Focus

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Relevant Certifications (ServiceNow CAD, CSA, CTA)

Tools

ServiceNow

Salesforce

AWS

Azure

Job description

Senior Platform Architect - Manufacturing

• Full-time
• Employee Type: Regular
• Region: AMS - North America and Canada
• Work Persona: Remote

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.

The Team

The Customer Excellence Group (CEG) at ServiceNow works with customers to help them achieve their business outcomes by providing Customer Success services. The group’s purpose is to accelerate customers’ adoption of the ServiceNow platform, enabling customers to realize value faster, reduce costs and reduce risks.

The Role

The Customer Success Platform Architect is a trusted technical advisor and a valued partner for our customers digital transformation journey with ServiceNow. It is an advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a strong technical foundation in the ServiceNow platform. The PA establishes and supports best practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the overall health of the platform. The PA guides both partner and customer resources to achieve their goals through leading practices, tools, accelerators and methodologies. This role interfaces with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects and development teams during all phases of the ServiceNow adoption lifecycle.

An ideal candidate will have extensive experience working as an enterprise or platform architect with a successful track record in technology strategy, platform governance, data and solution design. They will have demonstrated the ability to drive standardization and best practice platform management, have led technical governance design and implementations to optimize platform performance. They will have thoughts and opinions to help minimize long-term technical risk.

What you get to do in this role:

Develop strong relationships with the customer business leaders and platform owners to understand their vision and how ServiceNow plays in their digital transformation journey.

Guide and support the execution of a technical governance processes

Help develop standards and practices for maintaining the ServiceNow architecture model while maintaining the health of the ServiceNow platform

Supports design and implementation of a platform operating model to achieve desired outcomes and foster end-user adoption

Provide technical evaluation of demands against ServiceNow platform architecture, platform capabilities, and best practices

Analyze and translate business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint with solutions to achieve complex business objectives

Drive solid platform health by reviewing and guiding the remediation of configurations and customizations that do not align to ServiceNow leading practices.

Advocate/champion ServiceNow’s Customer Success Impact advisory practices and methodology

Guide a customer down a prescriptive integration and performance design review sessions

Leverage existing Impact methodology and tools delivering best practices and expert services

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.

Enterprise or Solution Architect role and/or relevant experience.

5+ years large program experience leading architecture and design programs

Manufacturing Industry experience

4+ years industry experience in automotive, heavy and light manufacturing or industrial production verticals.

Cloud Application Technology Experience

Experience in implementation of one or more cloud-based systems such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Oracle Cloud

3-4 years minimum of ServiceNow Platform Experience

Consulting Experience

Management Consulting Experience preferred, (Big 4, Strategy Firm) or OEM software or Cloud company

3+ years of experience in management consulting leadership roles at a top-tier consulting company focused on technology (Digital/SaaS/Enterprise Software)

Fortune 500 or OEM Software or Cloud Company enterprise architect

Select Certifications recommended

ServiceNow CAD, CSA and/or CTA,

Additional Desired Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Translates requirements to Demonstrate value
• Results Driven through cross functional teamwork
• Cultivates Innovation through collaboration
• Thrives in complexity
• Strategic mindset – thinks short and long term
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Travel up to 50%

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.Learn more here .

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

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