It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
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Job Description
ServiceNow is moving from a workflow platform with AI features to an AI platform where agents do the work. That shift depends entirely on whether the operational data underneath it can be trusted, which is the problem this role owns.
The ITOM Solution Architect designs and leads technical delivery of ServiceNow ITOM solutions across CMDB and service data foundations, Discovery, Service Mapping, ITOM Health, event intelligence, and service observability, and increasingly designs the agentic layer built on top of them. The role moves fluidly between deep technical design and executive advisory, with the judgement to give customers evidence-based assessments of their operational maturity rather than aspirational ones.
What you'll do:
Architect the data foundation
- Own ITOM architecture: Discovery, Service Graph Connectors, Agent Client Collector, CMDB/CSDM design, IRE and reconciliation, and Service Mapping strategy
- Design and data foundations AI-ready and trustworthy
- Design sustainable data population architecture, including MID Server and collection topologies that hold up under real enterprise network and security constraints
Design the event intelligence and observability layer
- Architect ITOM Health and Service Observability with SLO-based Service Reliability Management as one signal-to-service model
- Integrate existing monitoring estates (for example, Dynatrace, Datadog, SolarWinds, Splunk)
- Define operational success: noise reduction, alert-to-CI coverage, MTTR, and service health accuracy
Design and govern the agentic layer
- Design where ServiceNow Otto and AI agents fit operationally, including alert triage, detecting and correcting CMDB issues, and autonomous SLO creation
- Build custom agentic workflows in AI Agent Studio where out-of-box coverage stops
- Build guardrails before automation, especially in regulated environments
Advise and lead
- Give honest current-state assessments, including telling customers when they are not ready for the use case they came in asking for
- Translate architecture into business outcomes for CIOs and infrastructure leaders: risk, cost, and toil avoided
- Flag integration, data-quality, and scalability risk before it hits delivery
- Keep architecture consistent with engagement managers, technical consultants, and platform architects
- Support pre-sales scoping with realistic effort and sequencing
- Contribute reusable IP to the practice and mentor consultants toward architect capability
- Advise on release cadence and upgrade sequencing as part of architecture, not an afterthought
Why join us
- Shape the architecture of multi-million-dollar transformation programs from the first design conversation
- Work on the problem that determines whether autonomous IT actually works: trustworthy operational data
- Join a practice that invests in architect development and values honest delivery over optimistic scoping
Required:
- Substantial ServiceNow ITOM delivery experience at architect or lead level on large, multi-workstream programs
- Demonstrated depth in CMDB architecture, CSDM alignment, IRE and reconciliation design, and Discovery pattern design
- Working command of ITOM Visibility and ITOM Health, including enterprise-scale Event Management design
- Practical experience applying AI to operational work, and the judgement to know where it helps and where it does not
- Infrastructure and cloud fluency: hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, containers and Kubernetes, and the network and security constraints that affect discovery and monitoring
- Integration fluency: REST, MID Server architecture, credential and certificate handling, and event and telemetry ingestion patterns
- Executive presence, with the ability to hold a design position under challenge and explain it without jargon
- A collaborative, one-team posture across sales, solution consulting, and delivery
Preferred
- Experience designing agentic solutions in AI Agent Studio
- Experience governing AI through AI Control Tower, including scope, autonomy, escalation, and value measurement
- Adjacent ITAM (HAM/SAM) or SecOps experience, given shared CMDB dependencies
- Scripting fluency sufficient to review and debug pattern, transform, and event-rule logic
Certifications
- Required: CIS-Data Foundations, CIS-Discovery, CIS-Service Mapping, and CIS-Event Management, held or obtained within an agreed window
- Preferred: CSA; ArchX, CTA, or CMA for architect-track candidates; and current experience with Now Assist, ServiceNow Otto, and AI Agents
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.
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ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, 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.
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Skills Required
- Substantial ServiceNow ITOM delivery experience at architect or lead level on large, multi-workstream programs
- Demonstrated depth in CMDB architecture, CSDM alignment, IRE and reconciliation design, and Discovery pattern design
- Working command of ITOM Visibility and ITOM Health, including enterprise-scale Event Management design
- Practical experience applying AI to operational work and evaluating appropriate use cases
- Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture experience, including containers, Kubernetes, and network and security constraints affecting discovery and monitoring
- Integration experience with REST, MID Server architecture, credential and certificate handling, and event and telemetry ingestion patterns
- Executive presence and ability to explain and defend architecture clearly
- Collaborative experience across sales, solution consulting, and delivery
- Experience designing agentic solutions in AI Agent Studio
- Experience governing AI through AI Control Tower, including scope, autonomy, escalation, and value measurement
- Adjacent ITAM, HAM, SAM, or SecOps experience
- Scripting fluency sufficient to review and debug pattern, transform, and event-rule logic
- CIS-Data Foundations certification, held or obtained within an agreed window
- CIS-Discovery certification, held or obtained within an agreed window
- CIS-Service Mapping certification, held or obtained within an agreed window
- CIS-Event Management certification, held or obtained within an agreed window
- CSA certification
- ArchX, CTA, or CMA certification for architect-track candidates
- Current experience with Now Assist, ServiceNow Otto, and AI Agents
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with multiple plan choices and strong perceived coverage, alongside mental-health resources and wellbeing support. Company materials and employer-verified summaries also note inclusive care options and supportive programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and family-planning support are characterized as generous, with fully paid leave and resources such as fertility, caregiving, and adoption assistance. Backup care and other family-focused programs are also highlighted as part of the package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity components like RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan are presented as meaningful, widely available parts of total rewards. Many role and benefits overviews emphasize equity’s role in boosting overall compensation alongside bonuses.
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What We Do
As the AI platform for business transformation, we're putting AI to work across organizations — freeing people for work that matters. Making old tech work with new tech. Reaching across departments, from the front office to the back office and every office in between. Our ambition? To become the AI defining enterprise software company of the 21st century (or "AI DESCO21C," as we like to call it). With more than 8,400+ customers, we serve approximately 90% of the Fortune 500®, and we're proud to be a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies™. Explore your future career with us, visit www.careers.servicenow.com From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
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