Principal Platform Architect - Manufacturing

Principal Platform Architect – Manufacturing

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You will be part of the Customer Excellence Group (CEG). 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 thousands of customer engagements. Successful candidates will join a team of experts focused on our Financial Services customers, with a particular focus on Banking customers.

• Develop relationships with customer executives, platform owners, architects, and development teams to help them understand the role of Service Now in their transformation vision.
• Guide customers in the architecture of end‑to‑end Service Now solutions across multiple modules such as ITSM, CMDB/CSDM, ITOM, HRSD, Sec Ops, SPM, CSM, and Creator Workflows.
• Translate goals and desired outcomes into an architectural roadmap.
• Engage with the customer's Enterprise Architects to position Service Now as the digital transformation platform standard, integrated with their core applications.
• Ensure instance health by working to reduce technical debt and align to Service Now leading practices.
• Be an active contributor of leading practices and expertise related to the Service Now platform.
• Maintain the skills and certifications that are relevant to your customers and your role.
• Mentor others in their professional development.
• Evaluate and recommend new Service Now capabilities, including AI, agentic automation, and LLM integrations.
• Help customers adhere to Service Now architecture guardrails and coding standards.
• Contribute to platform innovation by identifying opportunities to improve user experience, reduce complexity, and increase automation.
• Support the development of reusable solutions, accelerators, and technical assets.
• Present platform strategy and design decisions to stakeholders and leadership.

• 10+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization and/or Service Now platform team, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in operational and/or implementation leadership roles on a large-scale Service Now deployment.
• Experience working with functional business leaders to identify business objectives and develop outcome-focused roadmaps.
• 3+ years in an Enterprise or Solution Architect role, or relevant experience.
• Knowledge of data modeling, CMDB design, data strategies, platform security, and integration.
• Cloud application technology experience.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Platforms in addition to Service Now.
• A strong customer focus.
• The ability to thrive in complexity.
• A strategic and collaborative mindset.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Strong executive communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Industry experience in Manufacturing preferred.
• Experience with agentic AI capabilities (e.g., LLM orchestration, generative workflows, Now Assist).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Dev Ops tools, and Automated Testing Framework (ATF).
• Certified Master Architect (CMA) or Certified Technical Architect (CTA) in good standing, or the willingness to obtain one of those certifications.

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 Service Now employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location.

Service Now 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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