Field CTO - ServiceNow

At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you.

With more than 7,700+ customers, we serve approximately 85% of the Fortune 500, and we're proud to be one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For and World's Most Admired Companies.

Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of a job description but are deeply excited about the role? We still encourage you to apply! At ServiceNow, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all voices are heard, valued, and respected. We welcome all candidates, including individuals from non-traditional, varied backgrounds, that might not come from a typical path connected to this role. We believe skills and experience are transferrable, and the desire to dream big makes for great candidates.

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.

Qualifications

In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:

• 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.
• Experience in one of the following industries preferred: Financial Services, Telco/Media, Technology, Manufacturing, SLED, Life Sciences, or Healthcare.
• 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.
• 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 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, etc.
• Excellent understanding of the architectural principles for cloud-based platforms that include SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, and automation.
• Experience and understanding of multiple technical domains - application, data, DevOps, AI/ML, integration, big data, mobility, analytics, etc.
• Intrinsically curious and passionate about researching the current and emerging technologies and developing innovative solutions.
• Experience presenting architecture concepts, designs, and goals to technology leaders and partners.