Senior Platform Architect

ServiceNow ServiceNow · Enterprise · Zurich, Switzerland · Customer Outcomes

This role is for a Senior Platform Architect at ServiceNow, focusing on helping customers establish technical foundations and design solutions on the ServiceNow Platform. The role involves advising customers, partners, and internal teams on architecture, technical governance, integrations, and platform health. While the role requires experience in leveraging or critically thinking about integrating AI into work processes, it is primarily a consultative and architectural role focused on the ServiceNow platform rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be an architectural advisor across multiple engagements to guide customers, partners, and internal team members to provide successful customer solutions.
  2. Ensure instance health by working with the engagement team to reduce technical debt and align to ServiceNow leading practices.
  3. Translate business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve complex goals.
  4. Engage with the customer's Enterprise Architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform standard, integrated with the customer's core applications.
  5. Support the sales effort by scoping and estimating the engagement and change orders.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
  • 8+ years progressive experience as part of a professional services organization; or equivalent education/experience
  • Management consulting experience
  • Language proficiency in both English and German (C level)
  • Enterprise architecture experience
  • Cloud application technology experience
  • ServiceNow certifications in aligned workflow

Nice to have

  • Creativity with comfort running programs independently within a "startup-paced" environment
  • Success driving complex issues through analysis and resolution
  • Industry domain expertise
  • Large program experience leading architecture and design

What the JD emphasized

  • Language proficiency in both English and German (C level) is required