ServiceNow Architect

Kyndryl; Sterling Forest (NY); On-site; USD 143,640 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Disability and retirement benefits

Paid leave and time off

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a Senior ServiceNow Architect in Sterling Forest, NY to collaborate with diverse teams to translate business objectives into scalable ServiceNow platform strategies and solution architectures.

This role requires extensive leadership skills, guiding ServiceNow practitioners while ensuring best practices and alignment with business outcomes. You will also be responsible for solution governance and mentoring teams.

Compensation ranges from $143,640 to $273,000 annually, with additional benefits including medical coverage and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant enterprise IT and ServiceNow experience.
• ServiceNow Certified Technical Architect certification required.
• Minimum 12 active ServiceNow CIS certifications required.
• Proven experience leading large‑scale ServiceNow implementations.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, multi‑disciplinary ServiceNow delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end ServiceNow solution architecture across complex enterprise programs.
• Advise clients on platform strategy and governance.
• Present recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Provide architectural oversight across multiple ServiceNow modules.

Skills

10+ years of relevant enterprise IT and ServiceNow experience

Strong executive communication skills

ServiceNow Certified Technical Architect certification

Minimum 12 active ServiceNow CIS certifications

Proven experience leading large‑scale ServiceNow implementations

Deep knowledge of ServiceNow platform architecture

Job description

The Role

The Senior ServiceNow Architect will partner with executive stakeholders, enterprise architects, business leaders, process owners, and technical teams to translate business objectives into scalable ServiceNow platform strategies and solution architectures. The architect must be comfortable presenting to a wide range of client personas, from C‑suite and business sponsors to platform owners, developers, administrators, and operational teams.

This role requires strong leadership capabilities, including the ability to guide and mentor a large, diverse team of ServiceNow practitioners across architecture, development, configuration, integration, testing, and delivery activities. The architect will be responsible for establishing solution standards, reviewing technical designs, ensuring platform best practices, and maintaining alignment between business outcomes, platform governance, and delivery execution.

The Senior ServiceNow Architect is expected to lead structured discovery and design workshops with executive sponsors, business process owners, platform teams, and technical stakeholders to define outcomes, assess current‑state capabilities, and shape scalable future‑state ServiceNow solutions. This includes translating business challenges into ServiceNow capabilities, facilitating alignment across competing priorities, documenting architectural decisions, and ensuring workshop outputs are converted into clear roadmaps, implementation backlogs, and actionable delivery plans.

The Senior ServiceNow Architect is also responsible for establishing and reinforcing platform governance, solution standards, design review practices, and delivery guardrails across large ServiceNow programs. In addition, the architect provides mentorship and technical leadership to a diverse team of ServiceNow practitioners, helping architects, developers, business analysts, and administrators apply best practices, improve delivery quality, reduce technical debt, and build sustainable client capabilities across the platform lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end ServiceNow solution architecture across complex enterprise programs.
• Advise clients on platform strategy, roadmap planning, governance, and implementation best practices.
• Present recommendations clearly to executive, business, technical, and operational stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor cross‑functional ServiceNow teams, including architects, developers, business analysts, and administrators.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to ServiceNow best practices.
• Provide architectural oversight across modules such as ITSM, ITOM, CSM, SPM, SecOps, HRSD, CMDB, HAM, SAM, integrations, and platform security.
• Review solution designs, integrations, data models, technical debt, and upgrade impacts.
• Support pre‑sales, client workshops, design authority sessions, and executive briefings as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant enterprise IT and ServiceNow experience.
• ServiceNow Certified Technical Architect certification required.
• Minimum 12 active ServiceNow CIS certifications required.
• Proven experience leading large‑scale ServiceNow implementations and transformation programs.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, multi‑disciplinary ServiceNow delivery teams.
• Deep knowledge of ServiceNow platform architecture, governance, integrations, CMDB, security, and application design.
• Ability to balance business outcomes, technical feasibility, delivery constraints, and long‑term platform health.

Compensation & Benefits

The compensation range for this position in the US is $143,640 to $273,000 based on a full‑time schedule. Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job‑related skills, and experience. For part‑time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city, or local minimum wage requirement.

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl's applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave and paid time off. Note: if this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.