Sr Principal Platform Architect Banking

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 — Service Now 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.

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.

The Customer Outcomes Senior Principal Platform Architect is a technical advisory role, responsible for helping our customers establish a technical foundation in the Service Now Platform and design solutions that improve outcomes. The Senior 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 Service Now, 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 Service Now 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 Service Now 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 Service Now 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 Service Now platform.
• Maintain skills / certifications on for .
• Support the professional development of others through means of mentoring.
• Seen as an expert across the industry and an active contributor of leading practices.
• Involved in more complex engagements providing expertise across multiple workflows.
• Work with the extended account team to form global roll out plans, extending platform expansion .
• Participate in presales opportunities and promote the platform architect role into all accounts.

• 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.
• 15+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
• Management consulting experience
• Ability to travel up to 80%
• Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup paced" environment
• Experience driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
• Ability to relay complex information to diverse set of audiences, both technical and non‑technical
• Service Now certifications in aligned workflow
• Industry domain expertise in…