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Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.\nRole Overview\nThe ServiceNow Platform Owner & Chief Architect is accountable for the technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, platform lifecycle, security, performance, integrations, and technical execution of the enterprise ServiceNow platform.\nThis role is the single accountable leader for platform architecture and technical delivery. Process outcomes, functional adoption, operating procedures, and service performance remain owned by the respective process and product owners, including ITSM, CMDB, SAM/HAM, SecOps, HRSD, Knowledge, Service Catalog, and Digital Workplace stakeholders.\nThe role partners with process owners to translate business and operational priorities into scalable, secure, maintainable, and supportable ServiceNow solutions. It ensures the platform enables the desired process outcomes without assuming direct accountability for those process outcomes.\nThe role combines executive-level platform ownership with hands-on architectural leadership. As the technical authority for ServiceNow, this leader defines the long-term platform vision, establishes architecture standards, governs technical decisions, leads modernization, and ensures sustainable solutions across the enterprise.\nThis leader directly leads or governs the ServiceNow engineering, administration, support, architecture, and development organizations based on the approved operating model. Where resources are distributed or matrixed, the role sets platform standards, delivery expectations, technical governance, and decision ownership across all teams involved in platform delivery.\nPlatform Scope\nResponsible for technical strategy, architecture, technical governance, platform health, engineering standards, integrations, release quality, and technical ownership across the following ServiceNow capabilities:\nIT Service Management (ITSM)\n\nIT Operations Management (ITOM)\n\nConfiguration Management Database (CMDB)\n\nApplication Portfolio Management (APM)/ EnterpriseArchitecture\n\nSoftware Asset Management (SAM Pro)\n\nHardware Asset Management (HAM Pro)\n\nHuman Resources Service Delivery (HRSD)\n\nSecurity Operations (SecOps)\n\nKnowledge Management\n\nService Catalog\n\nService Portal / Employee Center\n\nServiceNow Integrations and platform extensions\n\nFuture AI, Virtual Agent, Automation, and Digital Workflow capabilities\n\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the enterprise ServiceNow platform roadmap, technical strategy, and multi-year modernization plan, maintaining a quarterly roadmap and aligning priorities through a monthly platform governance forum with ITSM, CMDB, SAM/HAM, SecOps, HRSD, Infrastructure, Security, and business stakeholders.\n\nServe as the chief architect for the ServiceNow ecosystem, establishing architectural standards, development principles, technical governance models, reusable patterns, and decision frameworks.\n\nLead the technical enablement of AI, automation, Virtual Agent, and digital workflow capabilities within ServiceNow, establishing reusable architecture patterns, governance standards, and scalable platform solutions that accelerate transformation while maintaining platform integrity and supportability.\n\nLead platform architecture decisions across ServiceNow modules, integrations, workflows, custom applications, automation, AI, and digital workflow capabilities.\n\nDefine platform standards for scalability, maintainability, performance, security, compliance, reliability, observability, and supportability.\n\nGovern platform upgrades, releases, patching strategies, testing methodologies, deployment controls, production readiness, and release quality.\n\nOwn platform security, technical compliance, audit readiness, access governance, and technical risk management activities in partnership with enterprise security and compliance teams.\n\nDefine integration architecture between ServiceNow and enterprise systems, cloud platforms, identity solutions, monitoring tools, HR systems, ERP platforms, collaboration tools, and third-party applications.\n\nEstablish development standards, coding practices, peer review expectations, technical design reviews, quality gates, architectural governance controls, and exception management.\n\nLead technical debt reduction, platform simplification, customization rationalization, unused workflow retirement, upgrade readiness improvement, and defect leakage reduction initiatives.\n\nEvaluate and approve significant platform design decisions, customizations, integrations, technical exceptions, and architecture deviations.\n\nPartner with process and product owners to understand requirements, assess technical feasibility, prioritize platform enhancements, and deliver solutions that support functional outcomes without taking ownership of process execution or adoption.\n\nManage the platform backlog, release calendar, engineering capacity, delivery sequencing, and technical dependencies in alignment with business priorities and process owner requirements.\n\nManage ServiceNow licensing inputs, platform investments, vendor relationships, implementation partners, support partners, and commercial discussions related to technical platform delivery and lifecycle needs.\n\nDefine platform KPIs focused on availability, performance, environmental stability, release quality, defect leakage, backlog aging, customization health, upgrade readiness, integration reliability, security posture, and value enablement.\n\nServe as the executive escalation point for major platform issues, platform instability, critical delivery risks, vendor escalations, and strategic architectural decisions.\n\nLeadership Responsibilities\nLead the ServiceNow engineering, administration, platform support, architecture, and development organizations responsible for platform health and technical delivery.\n\nManage an organization of architects, developers, administrators, support personnel, and technical delivery partners.\n\nEstablish an operating rhythm that includes daily or near-daily technical standups, weekly platform leadership reviews, release readiness reviews, backlog health reviews, architecture reviews, and monthly stakeholder governance.\n\nSet clear decision ownership, escalation paths, technical standards, delivery expectations, and quality controls across internal teams and delivery partners.\n\nDevelop technical talent pipelines, succession plans, architectural capability, platform engineering practices, and continuous learning across the ServiceNow organization.\n\nBuild and maintain a global ServiceNow technical organization capable of supporting enterprise-scale growth, platform modernization, and business expansion.\n\nFoster a culture focused on technical excellence, fewer handoffs, faster and clearer decisions, lower rework, better service experience, and measurable improvement in delivery quality.\n\nSuccess measures (Outcome-Based)\nImproved ServiceNow platform availability, performance, stability, and reliability across production and non-production environments.\n\nReduced platform technical debt, unnecessary customization, unused workflows, architectural exceptions, and upgrade blockers.\n\nIncreased delivery and adoption of AI and automation capabilities through reusable platform services, resulting in reduced manual effort, improved workflow efficiency, faster service delivery, and measurable business value realization.\n\nImproved upgrade readiness, release quality, deployment discipline, testing effectiveness, and production change success for platform releases.\n\nReduced defect leakage, rework, incident recurrence, failed deployments, and avoidable platform-related escalations.\n\nImproved platform backlog health through clearer prioritization, reduced aging, better dependency management, and more predictable delivery commitments.\n\nImproved integration reliability, data exchange quality, monitoring visibility, and technical resilience across enterprise systems connected to ServiceNow.\n\nImproved platform security posture, access governance, audit readiness, compliance evidence quality, and technical risk management.\n\nIncreased reuse of approved architecture patterns, technical standards, common components, automation foundations, and scalable platform capabilities.\n\nImproved productivity and effectiveness of ServiceNow developers, administrators, architects, and support teams through clearer standards, operating rhythm, and decision ownership.\n\nImproved stakeholder confidence in ServiceNow technical delivery through transparent governance, reliable roadmap execution, faster issue resolution, and measurable platform value enablement.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of ServiceNow experience with progressive responsibilities across architecture, engineering, and platform leadership.\n\n5+ years managing large ServiceNow technical organizations.\n\nDeep expertise across multiple ServiceNow product lines including ITSM, ITOM, CMDB, Asset Management, HRSD, SecOps.\n\nProven experience designing enterprise-scale ServiceNow architectures and complex integration ecosystems.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale AI, automation, self-service, and digital workflow solutions within ServiceNow, with a proven ability to translate emerging technologies into secure, scalable, and supportable platform 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