ITOM Solution Architect

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

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Yes