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Company Description
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.
Job Description
ServiceNow is seeking Enterprise Architects with extensive experience in Retail organizations to join our team. The Enterprise Architecture Team is part of our pre-sales organization focused on building credibility and trust with the technical and business leaders of our largest customers by developing cross-functional strategies and solutions. Our team brings technical expertise, real-world experience, strong executive engagement skills, innovation, and a growth mindset to help our customers understand the opportunities of the “platform of platforms” vision. We act as technical leaders for our customer’s most complex solutions, designed to ensure that they can realize the value they need. We do this by leveraging best practices and industry standards to build customer trust and architect best-in-class solutions.
While collaborating with organizations, foundations, partners, and the wider ServiceNow sales team, the right candidate will create and communicate high-level architectures, strategies, and a vision that are both written and verbal, to audiences up to and including the CIO/CTO and leaders of line of business. The Enterprise Architect will also lead and participate in the delivery of workshops, best practice overviews, and educational sessions to existing customers and partners.
What you get to do in this role:
- Engage with executives to identify pain points and opportunities to deliver on their mission and then translate them into solutions from ServiceNow.
- Work with a wide variety of retail organizations, colleagues, and partners to help them understand the power of the Now platform and the potential opportunities of the future of work.
- Lead architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how ServiceNow meets the needs of strategic customers, including Business Transformation, Digital Products/Services, Platform as a Service, Enterprise Service Management, and the co-creation of industry-specific solutions.
- Understand the business strategy of the customer and articulate how ServiceNow can enable and deliver value to their organization, seamlessly integrating into their current and future technology landscape
- Understand the detail behind the ServiceNow and platform of platforms architecture and communicate it at various levels
- Work with architecture development methods, modeling approaches and architecture patterns for integration
- Interact at multiple levels within a Retail organization (Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Directors, VPs, and CXOs) and maintain these relationships throughout their customer journey.
- Provide thought leadership and collaborate with internal ServiceNow business units
- Identify, lead, and contribute to the creation of best practices, white papers, workshops, etc
- Help organizations understand how ServiceNow AI’s strategy can accelerate them to value
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- Delivered Digital Business Transformation leveraging the ServiceNow platform
- Passion and energy for building business relationships and is accustomed to driving the simplification of complex concepts into compelling customer proposals
- Drive for results using out-of-the-box innovative thinking together with excellent problem-solving skills
- An intrinsic ability to understand and prioritize work and is willing to make big bets when the time is right, to invest time and energy in the right areas
- Willingness to jump in and roll up their sleeves alongside customers, colleagues, and partners to get things done faster and better
- An ability to take complex concepts in build them into a story
- 10 or more years of proven success in influencing senior technology leaders to drive change in a pre-sales, customer, or delivery-focused role
- A track record of success in using Human Centered Design techniques to explore the customer’s current reality and set a vision for the future
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing advanced architectures in an application domain and integrating multiple systems or platforms
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture or Application Architecture pre-sales in a software vendor or professional services environment
- Familiarity with common Enterprise and Industry Architecture frameworks such as: TOGAF, Zachman, IT4IT, BIAN, TMForum, Business Architecture Guild, etc.
- Experience and understanding of multiple technical domains - application, data, DevOps, AI/ML, integration, big data, mobility, analytics, etc.
- Intrinsically curious and passionate about researching current and emerging technologies and developing innovative solutions
- Experience presenting architecture concepts, designs, and goals to technology leaders and partners
- Willingness to travel to serve our customers across the Americas
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $165,825 - $273,675, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs.
Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal 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. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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