Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow ServiceNow · Enterprise · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Customer Excellence HQ

This role focuses on defining and maintaining enterprise platform vision and strategy, providing architectural guidance, shaping governance frameworks, and mitigating platform risks to ensure scalability and alignment with customer goals. It involves influencing decisions at executive levels and ensuring consistent application of platform standards across delivery teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and maintain platform vision and strategy aligned to enterprise IT and business objectives.
  2. Provide architectural guidance to ensure designs align with platform standards and leading practices.
  3. Shape governance frameworks covering instance strategy, integrations, and data models.
  4. Facilitate platform governance forums to drive consistent decisions across partners and teams.
  5. Anticipate and mitigate platform risks (scalability, performance, technical debt).

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution strategy, and program leadership.
  • Proven experience engaging at Executive level to influence platform direction and business outcomes.
  • Track record of defining multi-workflow, enterprise-scale architectures and governance models.
  • Strong ability to operate as a program-level architect, guiding multiple teams and partners toward a unified vision.
  • Expertise in platform strategy, integration patterns, and complex delivery governance.

Nice to have

  • ServiceNow Certified Master Architect (CMA) plus other architecture and governance framework certifications are highly desirable.

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise platform strategy
  • governance models
  • scalability
  • platform standards
  • technical risks