Solution Architect - Public Sector

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 to join our Team. The Enterprise Architecture Team is part of our pre-sales organization focused on building credibility and trust with the technical leaders in our largest customers by developing cross-functional strategies and solutions. Our team brings technical expertise, real-world experience, strong executive engagement skills and an inspirational mindset to help our customers understand the opportunities of the "platform of platforms" vision. We act as technical leaders for our customers most complex solutions, designed to ensure that they can realize the value they need. We do this by leveraging best practice and industry standards to build customer trust and architect best in class solutions.
While collaborating with customers, partners, and the wider ServiceNow sales team, the right candidate will create and communicate high-level architectures and strategies that are both written and verbal, to audiences up to and including the CIO/CTO level. The Enterprise Architect will elegantly articulate the advantage of ServiceNow being built on a single cloud platform consisting of a single user interface, one code base and one data model. 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 customer executives to identify pain points and opportunities to deliver value and then translate them into solutions from ServiceNow
• Work with a wide variety of customers, 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; IT 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, modelling approaches and architecture patterns for integration
• Interact at multiple levels within a customer account (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

Qualifications
What you need to be successful in this role:• Are you who everyone asks to help resolve the biggest problems? If so, this is the role for you!• At least 4 years or equivalent combination of education and experience successfully building applications on development platforms, preferred with 2 years of strong Application Development on the ServiceNow platform• Passion for AI and emerging technologies, self-driven learning with a track of staying ahead of trends• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into the work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI data-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact in public sector.• Strong Knowledge of AWS & Azure Gov Cloud architectures and working with partners in deploying these solutions• Knowledge of IL4, IL5 DoD or C2E clouds is highly desired• Deep understanding of customer technical pain points in adopting cloud technologies, and experience working through networking, solutioning, integration and other hurdles to increase customer value• Understand business and technical problems addressed by the products including Federal regulations (e.g., Authority to Operate), business drivers, evolving business needs, and security• Working knowledge of 3-tier application architecture• Must have strong written and verbal English communication skills• Working knowledge of Business Rules, UI Pages, UI Macros, Jelly, Script Includes, Processors, Workflow, Service Catalog, and other important components of the ServiceNow platform• Experience and very strong hands-on capabilities with Web Services, JDBC, XML, JSON, and other Integration practices within the ServiceNow platform• Understanding of architecture principles and strong technical background in data engineering with hands-on experience with data ingestion tools, ETL processes, data modeling, storage solutions, and analytics platforms.• Deep familiarity with integration technologies, including REST APIs, SOAP, JSON, JDBC, streaming data platforms, and middleware technologies• Exhibits prior and current technical expertise in web technology and the ability to learn new technology• Technical or practice team lead in previous roles• Exceptional communication and presentation skills to include technical and business concepts• Strong Technical skills with an ability to present to both technical and business executive audiences are a must• Exposure to additional technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Generative AI, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Process Mining, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) practices is a plus
For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $131,925 to $217,725, 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 . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
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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