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ServiceNow, Inc. Principal Platform Architect in Montreal, Canada
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 8,100 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.
The Principal Platform Architect is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a strong technical foundation in the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that drive business outcomes. This entails establishing and supporting best practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the overall technical health of the platform. This is a highly consultative role that does not perform configuration on the platform, but guides partner and customer resources to deliver best practices. This role interfaces with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects and development teams during the selling, structuring and implementation of solutions.
An ideal candidate will have a achieved a senior level position as an enterprise architect and successful track record in management consulting, (professional services firms or cloud software company), focused on technology strategy, governance, data and solution design. They will have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success from strategic planning functions including business value identification, road mapping, as well as advising and defining successful execution strategies including governance frameworks and managing large enterprise programs.
What you get to do in this role:
Developing strong relationships with CIO and business leaders to understand the client’s vision and how ServiceNow plays in their digital transformation journey. Translate business objectives to outcomes into a customer roadmap
Enterprise architecture
Responsible for analyzing and translating business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve complex business objectives
Engages with customer enterprise architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform integrated with the core systems
Establish and manage technical governance processes
Drive solid instance health by reviewing and guiding the remediation of configurations that do not align to ServiceNow best practices.
Work with clients and ServiceNow teams to establish delivery operating model governance to ensure successful go-lives, end-user adoption and on-going support
Advocate/champion ServiceNow’s advisory and expert services best practices and industry use cases with clients
Contribute thought leadership (methodology and white papers) on how Advisory, Expert Services, and Co-Delivery can optimize to achieve customer outcomes
Guide a customer down a prescriptive solution design and manage through the technical implementation decision points
Define solutions across the platform that align to out of the box capabilities
Support the sales effort scoping and estimation that refine the customer vision and capabilities into activities and estimates
Canadian citizenship or permanent residency status and reside in Canada
Consulting Experience
Management Consulting Experience preferred, (Big 4, Strategy Firm) or OEM software or Cloud company
8+ years of experience in management consulting leadership roles at a top-tier consulting company focused on technology (Digital/SaaS/Enterprise Software)
Fortune 500 or OEM Software or Cloud CO enterprise architect
Career Progression (Technical, Architecture)
Experience working with functional business leaders
Experience working with functional business leaders
Experience identifying business objectives and developing outcome-focused roadmaps
Experience working with large Consulting/SI organizations.
Large Program Experience
10+ years large program experience leading architecture and design
Enterprise Architecture Experience
Enterprise Architect role and relevant experience.
Enterprise Architect certification (Togaf, IT4IT, etc)
Database, core data design, Security, integrations
Cloud Application Technology Experience
Significant role in implementation of one or more; SFDC, WKDAY, Success Factors, Oracle Cloud, Remedy
Minimum 2 years of ServiceNow Platform Experience is required
Cloud platform certification(s)
Familiarity with Enterprise Workflow Platform
Required Competencies:
TELCO Experience
Customer Focus
Collaborates
Drives Results
Cultivates Innovation
Courage
Consultative Perspective
Manages Complexity
Strategic Mindset
Technical Development
Travel up to 25%
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 office and will work from their assigned workplace location roughly 3 days/week or less (generally around 40-60% of the work week). Flexible employees may choose to work the remaining working time from their workplace location or home. Flexible employees are required to work within their state, province, region, or country of employment.
Remote
A remote work persona is defined as an employee who performs their responsibilities exclusively outside of a ServiceNow workplace and is not contracted or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office, including those whose place of work (pursuant to their terms and conditions of employment) is their home. Remote employees are required to work within their state, province, region, or country of employment.
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