Senior Platform Architect (Chicago)

Senior Platform Architect

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.

Role Overview

Architects play a critical role in guiding customers through their digital transformation journey through leading solutioning and scoping (as required) discussions during pre-sales (role and level dependent) and driving the successful delivery of strategic, multi-workflow, term based projects. Architects provide thought leadership, best practices, and expert guidance to ensure customers achieve long-term value from the ServiceNow platform. They engage with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology solutions, playing a pivotal role in scaling ServiceNow expertise across internal and external teams. By establishing strong governance frameworks, reducing technical debt and enabling scalable solutions, they help customers optimize their platform strategy while maintaining agility and long-term sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an expert across an assigned term of contracts, typically engaged in ServiceNow's larger accounts, providing architectural guidance, technical governance, and best practices.
• Build strong relationships with customer technical and business leaders, to align ServiceNow solutions with business strategy.
• Actively collaborate with GTM, Delivery, and other joint teams to bridge the gap between sales, solutioning, and execution.
• Continuously build network within ServiceNow and externally.
• Help customers establish a technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that improve outcomes.
• Ensure customers use leading practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the technical health of the platform.
• Guide ServiceNow, partner and customer employees on the engagement team to provide a solution on a technical architecture designed for long-term success.
• 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 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.
• Maintain skills / certifications on for .

To be successful in this role you have :

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay range of $121,700 - $213,000, plus equity (when applicable), variable / incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.