ServiceNow Platform Architect

Q1 Technologies, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Q1 Technologies, Inc. seeks a Platform Architect to advise customers on maximizing their ServiceNow investment. The role shapes platform strategy, guides capability adoption, and ensures scalable, secure architectures aligned with business outcomes.

This advisory position emphasizes governance, roadmapping, risk management, and executive communication, delivering rapid value without direct implementation while maintaining long‑term platform health.

Qualifications

• Design scalable, secure ServiceNow platform architectures aligned to business objectives.
• Influence stakeholders across levels, from teams to the C-suite.
• Communicate complex architectural decisions and risks clearly to executives.
• Diagnose root causes of complex issues and craft scalable resolutions.
• Lead platform roadmap development and sequencing of workflow adoption.

Responsibilities

• Advise customers on platform strategy and direction, via expert guidance rather than implementation.
• Shape platform governance and review architecture designs with stakeholders.
• Drive architectural reviews, workshops, and solution design sessions with clients.

Skills

Platform architecture

Stakeholder influence

Effective communication

Problem solving

Business acumen

Platform roadmap

Workflow & product knowledge

Solution design principles

Governance frameworks

ITSM expertise

AI strategy

Risk management

Customer engagement

Job description

We are seeking a trusted and experienced Platform Architect (PA) to act as a key architectural advisor to our customers. The primary purpose of this role is to ensure customers realize the full value of their ServiceNow investment. The Platform Architect will guide customers in identifying and sequencing the adoption of capabilities that align with their business outcomes, delivering value quickly and sustainably, and ensuring the long‑term health and scalability of their platform.

This is an advisory role focused on shaping the customer's platform strategy and direction, achieved through expert guidance rather than direct implementation.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

• Technical Architecture: Ability to design scalable, secure, and high‑performing ServiceNow platform architectures that translate business objectives into sound architectural decisions.
• Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to build and sustain trusted relationships across all organisational levels, from working teams to the C‑suite, and influence outcomes through credibility and deep relationships.
• Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex architectural decisions, risks, and platform direction with precision to diverse audiences, including executive stakeholders.
• Problem‑Solving: Ability to diagnose the root cause of complex, multi‑threaded problems, evaluate options, and develop sound, scalable resolution approaches.
• Business & Industry Acumen: Understand and credibly engage with the customer's industry context, business model, and strategic priorities to connect platform decisions to business outcomes.
• Platform and Product Road mapping: Ability to develop and maintain a clear, defensible ServiceNow platform and product roadmap that translates customer business objectives into a sequenced adoption plan.
• Skills: ServiceNow Platform Knowledge: Deep understanding of the core ServiceNow platform, including its data model (CMDB, CSDM), application development patterns, integration capabilities, security model, and instance lifecycle management., , Architectural Knowledge: Expertise in solution design principles, governance frameworks, technical debt remediation, and enterprise architecture concepts (e.g., TOGAF)., Workflow & Product Knowledge: Deep expertise in ITSM is mandatory. Expertise in at least one other ServiceNow workflow area (e.g., ITOM, CSM, HRSD, SecOps) is expected.
• Certifications: Required: Certified System Administrator (CSA), Certified Application Developer (CAD), Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS - at least one).
• Expected: ArchX - Advanced Architecture, Certified Technical Architect (CTA - in pursuit or completed), AI Certifications: Now Assist Essentials, Now Assist Executive Micro‑Certification, Agentic AI Executive Micro‑Certification.
• Architectural Advisory: Translate customer business objectives into a coherent platform strategy. Guide customers in defining their platform roadmap, sequencing workflow adoption, and conducting solution design reviews.
• Platform Health & Governance: Lead technical governance discussions to establish frameworks that prevent platform health degradation over time. Interpret platform health reports and advise on remediation plans for maintainability, performance, security, and upgradeability.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, track, and assess risks across architectural, technical, and platform health dimensions. Advise customers on mitigation strategies to ensure risks are managed before they become incidents.
• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders, from technical teams to senior leadership. Facilitate architectural reviews, executive conversations, and workshops.
• Technical Expertise: Demonstrate platform capabilities and guide customers through ServiceNow functionality. Maintain deep expertise in a few core areas while having broad knowledge across the entire ServiceNow platform.
• Strategic & Conceptual AI Expertise: Guide customers in adopting AI capabilities on the ServiceNow platform, including advising on how these capabilities fit within their broader organisational AI strategy and how to align AI capabilities to business outcomes.

Required Knowledge & Certifications

• ServiceNow Platform Knowledge: Deep understanding of the core ServiceNow platform, including its data model (CMDB, CSDM), application development patterns, integration capabilities, security model, and instance lifecycle management.
• Architectural Knowledge: Expertise in solution design principles, governance frameworks, technical debt remediation, and enterprise architecture concepts (e.g., TOGAF).
• Workflow & Product Knowledge: Deep expertise in ITSM is mandatory. Expertise in at least one other ServiceNow workflow area (e.g., ITOM, CSM, HRSD, SecOps) is expected.
• Required: Certified System Administrator (CSA), Certified Application Developer (CAD), Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS - at least one).
• Expected: ArchX - Advanced Architecture, Certified Technical Architect (CTA - in pursuit or completed).
• AI Certifications: Now Assist Essentials, Now Assist Executive Micro‑Certification, Agentic AI Executive Micro‑Certification.