Sr Platform Architect
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at ServiceNow. Wien · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Guide customers and delivery teams in shaping ServiceNow architectures built for lasting use across multiple engagements
- Turn customer goals and technical needs into roadmaps and architecture plans tied to business outcomes
- Advise on instance strategy, governance, core data, integrations and platform health
- Work with engagement teams to reduce technical debt and bring instances in line with platform practices
- Help scope engagements and change orders, while sharing expertise and mentoring colleagues
What you bring
- You have consulting experience with AI and Agentic AI in SaaS platforms or packaged software
- You have designed or implemented SaaS service management solutions and can model service offerings and catalogs
- You bring large-program architecture experience, including integrations, data lifecycles and governance
- You have several years in professional services, or comparable education and experience
- You can work in the country of application and travel for assignments, which may reach half your time
Who this fits
This senior consulting role suits someone who can lead architecture across complex programs and explain technical choices to both business and technical audiences. It involves customer-facing work with leaders, architects and development teams, plus mentoring others. The role is based in Wien with a hybrid arrangement and may require travel up to half the time.
From the employer
It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
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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 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 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.
- Be an expert in managing technical governance and delivery operating models.
- 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. - Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
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.
- Consulting on AI and Agentic AI in the SaaS platform/packaged software.
- Understanding of concepts like Autonomous Workforce and how this applies to Service Management.
- Industry domain expertise in SaaS.
- Designing and implementing Service Management (e.g. CRM, GBS, HR, ITSM, ERP, LowCode) in SaaS platforms/packaged software.
- Modelling Service Models and designing Service Catalogs.
- Consulting customers on Service Processes and Capabilities.
- Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution.
- Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non-technical.
- Large program experience leading architecture and design.
- Consulting on integrations and lifecycles of data across platforms.
- Driving Data Governance for the Service Management Capabilities.
- Multiple years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
- Right to work in the country you are applying to
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.
Accommodations
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Export Control Regulations
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