Principal Platform Architect

**Company Description**
ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We're growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on our customers' and employees' lives in significant and important ways. With over 6,900 customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're on the 2020 list of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies.
We're looking for people who are ready to jump right in and help us build on our incredible momentum, our diverse, engaged workforce, and our purpose to make the world of work, work better.
Learn more on Life at Now blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at ServiceNow.
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.
- 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
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- Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
**Qualifications**
To be successful in this role you have**:
- 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
- Large program experience leading architecture and design
- Enterprise architecture experience
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**Additional Information**
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment 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.
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**Work personas**
Work personas are categories that are assigned to employees depending on the nature of their work. Employees will fall into one of three categories: Remote, Flexible or Required in Office.
**Required in Office**
A required in office work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office. This persona is required to work from their assigned workplace location 100% of the work week based on the business needs of their role.
**Flexible**
A flexible work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated of

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