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.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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. 

Accommodations

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Export Control Regulations

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ITOM Solution Architect

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