City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa · Hybrid
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Mountain View, California, United States · On-site
$143k–$243k/yr
Mid level$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
Mountain View, California, United States · On-site
$126k–$195k/yr
Mid level$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Skills: Aws, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ci/cd, Infrastructure As Code
Mountain View, California, United States · On-site
Senior$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Skills: Platform Design, API Integration, REST, RPC, Microservices
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Skills: New Logo Sales, Territory Planning, SaaS Sales, AI Integration, Account Strategy
Staines-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom · Remote OK
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Staines-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom · Remote OK
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Company Description 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 le…
Company Description 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 le…
Skills: Prospecting, Outreach, Lead Qualification, Relationship Building, Communication Skills
Principal Technical Consultant, Platform - Federal TS/SCI/FSP Clearance
Fort Meade, Maryland, United States · Remote OK
$166k–$256k/yr
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Skills: ServiceNow Platform, TS/SCI Clearance, Full Scope Polygraph, Government Community Cloud (GCC), Technical Architecture
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Skills: SaaS Sales, Account Planning, Territory Planning, C-Suite Relationship Management, Business Development
Senior Solution Sales Executive - CRM & Industry Workflows
Chiyoda, Japan · Hybrid
Senior$4.1B raised
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Skills: Solution Sales, CRM, Customer Service Management, AI Integration, Executive Communication
Company Description 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 le…
Senior Director, Alliances & Channels Ecosystem EMEA North
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France · Hybrid
Senior+$4.1B raised
Company Description 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 le…
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Skills: Strategic Partnerships, AI Strategy, Commercial Leadership, Executive Influence, Joint Business Planning
Company Description It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for …
Skills: Partner Management, Business Development, Co-selling, Co-delivery, Go-to-market Strategy
Company Description Moveworks is the Agentic AI Assistant platform that empowers the entire workforce. Our platform enables employees to converse with all of their business systems through natural language to quickly fin…
Skills: AI Integration, ROI Analysis, Enterprise Sales, Account Planning, Digital Transformation Strategy
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Full-time
Posted 50d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Principal Platform Architect provides technical advisory to help customers establish a strong ServiceNow foundation and design solutions for long-term success. This includes managing technical governance, instance health, and translating business goals into architectural blueprints.
Requirements
Requires 12+ years of professional services or management consulting experience with a strong background in enterprise architecture and cloud technology. Candidates must possess ServiceNow certifications and the ability to travel up to 80%.
Full job description
Company Description
It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
Job Description
You will be part of the Customer Outcomes team. Our purpose is to accelerate platform adoption and improve customer outcomes. We do this through a portfolio of services, delivered by outstanding consultants, using our ecosystem of partners, our leading practices, methodologies and tools based on our experiences from 1000's of customer engagements.
What you get to do in this role:
The Customer Outcomes Principal Platform Architect is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that improve outcomes. The Principal Platform Architect ensures customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the technical 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 a technical architecture designed for long-term success.
You will work with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects, and development teams during the selling, structuring and implementation of solutions.
Be a technical expert across multiple engagements to guide customers, partners, and internal team members to provide successful customer solutions.
Provide a variety of knowledge across multiple workflows.
Develop relationships with technical 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 an 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.
Maintain skills / certifications on <insert skill or cert> for <insert workflow>.
Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
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, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
12+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
Management consulting experience
Ability to travel up to 80%
Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup paced" environment
Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non-technical
ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow
Industry domain expertise in <insert industry>
Large program experience leading architecture and design
Enterprise architecture experience
Cloud application technology experience
FD21
Additional Information
Work Personas
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, 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
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow.
For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.
Offices: 2225 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054, US · 680 George St, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, AU · 90 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, AU · Staines, GB · Amsterdam, NL
Service ManagementEnterprise CloudCustom App DevelopmentPlatformITSMSecurity OperationsCustomer Service ManagementITOMGRCHR Service Delivery
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow.
For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.
Offices: 2225 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054, US · 680 George St, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, AU · 90 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, AU · Staines, GB · Amsterdam, NL
Service ManagementEnterprise CloudCustom App DevelopmentPlatformITSMSecurity OperationsCustomer Service ManagementITOMGRCHR Service Delivery