Senior Platform Architect

ServiceNow; Forest Hills; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in KwaZulu-Natal seeks a Senior Platform Architect to advise customers on the ServiceNow platform. The role involves guiding teams, translating business goals, and ensuring the technical success of implementations. Candidates should have over 8 years of relevant experience, including management consulting, and the ability to integrate AI into workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience in leveraging AI in work processes.
• 8+ years experience in professional services.
• Industry domain expertise required.
• Ability to travel is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to implement solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance across engagements.
• Translate business goals into architectural blueprints.
• Engage Enterprise Architects to position ServiceNow.

Skills

AI integration experience

Management consulting experience

Analytical skills

Cloud application technology

Large program architecture

Education

Equivalent education

Tools

ServiceNow platform

Job description

Overview

The Customer Outcomes Senior Platform Architect is an advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that deliver outcomes. The Senior Platform Architect ensures customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the health of the platform. This is a consultative role focused on guiding ServiceNow, partner and customer employees on the engagement team to provide a solution on an architecture designed for long-term success.

Responsibilities

• You will work with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects, and development teams during the selling, structuring, and implementation of solutions.
• Be an architectural advisor across multiple engagements to guide customers, partners, and internal team members to provide successful customer solutions.
• Provide a variety of architectural knowledge across multiple workflows.
• Develop relationships with CoEI and business leaders at the customer site to understand the role of ServiceNow in their digital transformation vision.
• Translate goals to outcomes into a customer roadmap.
• Translate business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve complex goals.
• Engage with the customer's Enterprise Architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform standard, integrated with the customer's core applications.
• Manage technical governance, and a delivery operating model and governance.
• Ensure instance health by working with the engagement team to reduce technical debt and align to ServiceNow leading practices.
• Support the sales effort by scoping and estimating the engagement and change orders.
• Be an active contributor of leading practices and expertise related to the ServiceNow platform.

Qualifications

• 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, analysing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry.
• 8+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• Management consulting experience
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup paced" environment
• Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Industry domain expertise
• Large program experience leading architecture and design
• Enterprise architecture experience
• Cloud application technology experience
• ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow
• Ability to travel
• Right to work in the Country you have applied to

Additional Information

Work Personas

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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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