Platform Architect – Employee Workflow Specialist

Job Description

Work matters. It’s where we spend a third of our lives. And the workplace of the future is going to be a great place. We’re dedicated to bringing that to life for people everywhere. That’s why we put people at the heart of everything we do.

People matter. Our people have a passion for learning, building, and innovating. Whether you’re an engineer, a sales professional, a finance professional, or anything in-between, our roles aim to provide each person with meaningful impact and plenty of space to grow.

The Customer Outcomes team at ServiceNow works with customers to help them achieve their business outcomes by providing customer success services and expert services. The team’s purpose is to accelerate customers’ adoption of the ServiceNow platform, enabling customers to realize value faster, reduce costs and reduce risks.

The Customer Outcomes Platform Architect – Employee Workflow specialist is a technical advisory role, responsible for assisting clients transform theirHR, Legal, Procurement and Workplace functions to establish a strong technical foundation on the ServiceNow Platform and design solutions that drive business outcomes. This entails establishing and supporting best practices around instance strategy, technical governance, core data, integrations and the overall technical health of the platform, leveraging ServiceNow Employee Workflow solutions. This is a highly consultative role that does not perform configuration on the platform, but guides partner and customer resources to deliver best practices. This role interfaces with the customer across executive, platform owner, enterprise architects and development teams during the selling, structuring and implementation of solutions.

An ideal candidate will have a achieved a senior level position in an HR, Legal and/or Procurement organization as an enterprise architect and successful track record in management consulting, (professional services firms or cloud software company), focused on technology strategy, governance, data and solution design within the HR space. They will have demonstrated the ability to become a trusted advisor to senior executives and facilitate customer success from strategic planning functions including business value identification, road mapping, as well as advising and defining successful execution strategies including governance frameworks and managing large enterprise programs.

• Assist in the design and execution ofHR, Legal, Procurement and Workplacedigital transformation programs across multiple clients
• Provide subject matter guidance to customers in the realm ofHR and supportingfunctions. Guide customers on industry best practices and help prevent customers from over customizing and incurring too much technical debt
• Advise customers in their efforts to take advantage of the ServiceNow Employee Workflow Solutions standard capabilities in their efforts to improve departmental processes.
• Develop strong executive relationships withheads ofHR, Legal, Procurement, and Workplacebusinessleaders
• Developing strong relationships with CIO and business leaders to understand the client’s vision and how ServiceNow plays in their digital transformation journey. Translate business objectives to outcomesinto a customer roadmap
• Enterprise architecture
  • Responsible for analyzing and translating business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve complex business objectives
  • Engages with customer enterprise architects to position ServiceNow as the digital transformation platform integrated with the core systems
  • Establish and manage technical governance processes
• Drive solid instance health by reviewing and guiding the remediation of configurations that do not align to ServiceNow best practices.
• Work with clients and ServiceNow teams to establish delivery operating model governance to ensure successful go-lives, end-user adoption and on-going support
• Advocate/champion ServiceNow’s Employee Workflow solutions advisory and expert services best practices and industry use cases with clients
• Contribute thought leadership (methodology and white papers) on how Advisory, Expert Services, and Co-Delivery can optimize to achieve customer outcomes
• Guide a customer down a prescriptive solution design and manage through the technical implementation decision points
• Define solutions across the platform that align to out of the box capabilities
• Support the sales effort scoping and estimation that refine the customer vision and capabilities into activities and estimates

Qualifications

• Consulting Experience
  • BA/BS or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in customer-facing leadership role assisting customers withHR, Employee Workplacetransformations
  • Management Consulting Experience preferred, (Big 4, Strategy Firm) or OEM software or Cloud company
  • 3-5+ years of experience in management consulting leadership roles at a top-tier consulting company focused on technology (Digital/SaaS/Enterprise Software)
  • Ideally ServiceNowEmployeeWorkflowcertified. If not,experience and knowledge of ServiceNow’sCustomerEmployeeService Management toolset or equivalent leading SaaS offeringssuch asWorkday
  • Fortune 500 or OEM Software or Cloud CO enterprise architect
  • Career Progression (Technical, Architecture)

• Experience working with functional business leaders
  • Experience identifying business objectives and developing outcome-focused roadmaps
  • Experience working with large Consulting/SI organizations.

• Large Program Experience
  • 5+ years large program experience leading architecture and design

• Enterprise Architecture Experience
  • Enterprise Architect role and relevant experience.
  • Enterprise Architect certification (TOGAF, IT4IT)
  • Data modeling, core data design, Security, integrations, Configuration Management

• Cloud Application Technology Experience
  • Significant role in implementation of one or more; SFDC, WKDAY, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud
  • 2+ years of ServiceNow Platform Experience is desired but not required
  • Cloud platform certification(s)
  • Familiarity with Enterprise Workflow Platforms

• HR, Legal and Procurement industry experience
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrates value
• Collaborative
• Drives results
• Cultivates Innovation
• Courage
• Consultative perspective
• Manages complexity
• Strategic mindset
• Technical development
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Travel up to 50%

Additional Information

ServiceNow is an Equal Employment 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.

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Work personas are categories that are assigned to employees depending on the nature of their work. Employees will fall into one of three categories: Remote, Flexible or Required in Office.

A required in office work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office. This persona is required to work from their assigned workplace location 100% of the work week based on the business needs of their role.

A flexible work persona is defined as an employee who is contracted to work from or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office and will work from their assigned workplace location roughly 3 days/week or less (generally around 40-60% of the work week). Flexible employees may choose to work the remaining working time from their workplace location or home. Flexible employees are required to work within their state, province, region, or country of employment.

A remote work persona is defined as an employee who performs their responsibilities exclusively outside of a ServiceNow workplace and is not contracted or aligned to a ServiceNow-affiliated office,including those whose place of work (pursuant to their terms and conditions of employment) is their home. Remote employees are required to workwithin their state, province, region, or country of employment.