Solution Architect, Strategic Portfolio & Enterprise Architecture

ServiceNow · Remote; Dallas, Texas, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-09
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job Description
This Solution Architect is a functional and technical expert who shapes and governs enterprise-wide ServiceNow architectures across complex, multi-product customer portfolios. The role requires a strategic mindset focused on long-range platform roadmaps, cross-domain integration patterns, and governance frameworks – providing advisory leadership during pre-sales, delivering enterprise architecture guidance on direct customer engagements, and representing strategic portfolio priorities within ServiceNow (e.g., Product Management, Customer & Partner Excellence, Engineering).
The Solution Architect will bring strategic portfolio management expertise, enterprise architecture leadership, and deep cross-domain product knowledge to drive transformational outcomes for our customers and partners
Responsibilties:

• Serve as the architectural authority on customer engagement teams owning the strategic platform portfolio across multiple ServiceNow workflow domains, ensuring alignment to each customer's long-term technology landscape, and establishing enterprise governance frameworks and architecture standards.

• Define and govern enterprise-grade ServiceNow architectures, applying TOGAF or equivalent frameworks alongside ServiceNow technical standards to produce scalable, maintainable, and future-ready platform deployments.

• Build and sustain strategic relationships with product owners, platform stakeholders, and customer architecture teams influencing ServiceNow product roadmaps and championing multi-domain workflow capabilities.

• Engage regularly with senior leadership and CXO stakeholders to shape enterprise architecture vision, align multi-year ServiceNow portfolio roadmaps to business strategy, and advise on organizational change management and platform scaling for large, complex environments.

• Drive enterprise architecture thought leadership through executive briefings, formal presentations, and strategic portfolio workshops showcasing platform transformation outcomes and portfolio scaling success stories.

• Develop and continuously refine enterprise architecture frameworks, portfolio governance standards, and reusable reference architectures in partnership with the Customer & Partner Excellence Team and field delivery organization.

• Mentor and elevate enterprise architecture capabilities across the ServiceNow delivery team and partner ecosystem cultivating a community of practice around strategic portfolio management and platform governance.

• Maintain and advance expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and ServiceNow certifications spanning ITSM, ITOM, App Engine, and cross-domain workflow capabilities.

• Lead executive architecture workshops, multi-product roadmap definition, and implementation complexity assessments during pre-sales cycles partnering with Services Account Executives, Solution Sales Executives/Consultants, and Partner Sales Organizations to shape winning strategies for complex enterprise opportunities.

Qualifications
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To be successful in this role, we need someone who has:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, strategic IT portfolio management, or senior technical advisory roles within a professional services or consulting organization; or equivalent education and experience.

• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and strategic portfolio governance, with a track record of managing complex, multi-domain technology portfolios across Fortune 500 or similarly scaled organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to shape enterprise strategy at the C-suite level. Translating complex multi-domain portfolio decisions into executive narratives, identifying platform investment risks and trade-offs, and delivering architectural thought leadership that accelerates enterprise transformation.

• Proven ability to produce enterprise architecture artifacts; including platform portfolio roadmaps, reference architectures, and governance frameworks tailored to executive, architectural, and technical audiences across all organizational levels.

• Experienced in leading strategic architecture reviews and portfolio governance sessions with enterprise customers, driving executive alignment on multi-product platform strategies and long-term architectural vision.

• Experience leveraging or critically evaluating AI integration within enterprise architecture frameworks; including AI-powered workflow orchestration, agentic automation, and AI governance within complex multi-product portfolios, and assessing AI's strategic impact on enterprise operating models.

• Skilled at navigating both technical and business stakeholder environments synthesizing enterprise requirements, portfolio constraints, and architectural standards into cohesive, scalable platform strategies across large, complex organizations.

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex enterprise architecture concepts throu

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