ITOM Solution Architect

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.

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

Responsibilities

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; 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 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; 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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

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

Benefits

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