The Principal Platform Architect leads the design of scalable solutions on ServiceNow for financial services clients focusing on AI integration technical governance and strategy alignment with business objectives.

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 8100 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
Relocation to West Palm Beach is available and provided by ServiceNow
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 1000's of customer engagements. We help our customers realize value faster and reduce risks. Successful candidates will join a team of experts focused on our Financial Services customers with a particular focus on Banking customers.
What you get to do in this role:
The Platform Architect is a strategic technical leader responsible for helping our customers architect mature and governing scalable secure high-performing solutions on the ServiceNow platform. You will have the opportunity to shape the transformation for leading global financial institutions and work with the latest in AI advancements. Platform Architects ensure customers use leading practices around instance strategy technical governance core data integrations and the technical health of the platform. This is a consultative role. Platform Architects work closely with business stakeholders technical teams and external partners to align platform capabilities with business objectives adopt best practices and drive AI and digital transformation initiatives. They:• Develop relationships with customer executives platform owners architects and development teams help them understand the role of ServiceNow in their transformation vision.• Guide customers in the architecture of end-to-end ServiceNow solutions across multiple modules such as ITSM CMDB/CSDM ITOM HRSD SecOps SPM CSM and Creator Workflows.• Translate goals and desired into an architectural roadmap.• Engage with the customer's Enterprise Architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform standard integrated with their core applications.• Ensure instance health by working to reduce technical debt and align to ServiceNow leading practices.• Be an active contributor of leading practices and expertise related to the ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow capabilities including AI agentic automation and LLM integrations.• Help customers adhere to ServiceNow 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.
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 progressive experience as part of a professional services organization and/or ServiceNow platform team or equivalent experience

Experience in operational and/or implementation leadership roles on a large-scale ServiceNow 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 ServiceNow
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial Services / Banking experience
• Experience with agentic AI capabilities (e.g. LLM orchestration generative workflows Now Assist)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines DevOps 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.

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $148900 - $230000 plus equity (when applicable) variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications skill level competencies and work location. We also offer health plans including flexible spending accounts a 401(k) Plan with company match ESPP matching donations a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
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.
Accommodations
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