Platform Architect

**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 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.
**Job Description** About The Role**:
The Platform Architect is a trusted advisor for enterprise platform strategy and governance. You define platform standards and guide technical decisions to ensure ServiceNow remains healthy, scalable, and aligned to customer goals.

Your purpose is to establish governance models, anticipate risks, and enable sustainable growth. You engage across CxO, enterprise architects, and platform teams to influence decisions and ensure consistency across the program.

**What You Will Do**:

- Define and maintain platform vision and strategy aligned to enterprise IT and business objectives.
- Provide architectural guidance to ensure designs align with platform standards and leading practices.
- Shape governance frameworks covering instance strategy, integrations, and data models.
- Facilitate platform governance forums to drive consistent decisions across partners and teams.
- Anticipate and mitigate platform risks (scalability, performance, technical debt).
- Influence adoption of leading practices across customer, partner, and ServiceNow teams.
- Provide structured feedback to ServiceNow product and engineering teams.

**What Success Looks Like**:

- ServiceNow is embedded as a strategic enterprise platform with clear governance models in place.
- Platform standards are consistently applied across all delivery teams.
- Technical risks are reduced, and scalability is maintained.
- You are recognised as a trusted advisor on platform strategy and governance, complementing the CSE’s business-value leadership.

**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.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution strategy, and program leadership.
- Proven experience engaging at Executive level to influence platform direction and business outcomes.
- Track record of defining multi-workflow, enterprise-scale architectures and governance models.
- Strong ability to operate as a program-level architect, guiding multiple teams and partners toward a unified vision.
- Expertise in platform strategy, integration patterns, and complex delivery governance.
- ServiceNow Certified Master Architect (CMA) plus other architecture and governance framework certifications are highly desirable.

**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, 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.

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