Principal Platform Architect
Listed on ServiceNow’s official careers site. Posted September 16, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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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 for . 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 Success in driving complex issues through analysis and resolution Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non-technical Industry domain expertise in SaaS Large program experience leading architecture and design Enterprise architecture experience Cloud application technology experience Right to work in the country you have applied to
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