Senior Director, Platform Architecture - Financial Services

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About the Organization The AMS Delivery Excellence Group integrates Expert Services professional services teams and Platform Architecture advisory capabilities to deliver unified Impact and Expert Services solutions. This organization is central to ServiceNow's strategy of accelerating customer time-to-value through technical excellence, AI-powered automation, and seamless delivery experiences. The AMS Financial Services portfolio encompasses some of ServiceNow's most strategically important and highly regulated customer segments - spanning Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management, and Fintech. These customers operate in environments defined by regulatory complexity, risk management imperatives, core system modernization, and an accelerating shift toward AI-driven automation. Platform Architecture plays a critical advisory role in helping FSI customers navigate this landscape and realize transformational outcomes on the ServiceNow platform. The Senior Director of Platform Architecture - Financial Services is a strategic executive who defines the vision for platform architecture across the FSI vertical. This role manages multiple Directors and Senior Managers leading 60+ Platform Architects, cultivates C-suite relationships across FSI enterprise accounts, and drives AI-powered transformation initiatives. This leader ensures alignment with FSI business priorities, shapes the future of integrated Impact and Expert Services delivery, and builds high-performing teams with deep financial services industry and technical expertise. What You Get to Do in This Role Lead Strategic FSI Industry Alignment at Scale Maintain deep financial services industry expertise through close alignment with Major Area leaders across Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management, and Fintech Develop and enable high-performing Directors, Senior Managers, and Platform Architects to address complex, FSI-specific challenges including regulatory compliance, risk management transformation, core banking modernization, and AI-driven process automation Actively engage with Major Area organizations to ensure architectural strategies for resourcing and talent deployment remain aligned with FSI market trends, regulatory shifts, customer needs, and organizational priorities Drive thought leadership, reference architectures, and FSI-specific playbooks tailored to the unique compliance, integration, and governance requirements of financial services customers Build and Lead a High-Performing Multi-Level Organization Manage multiple Directors and Senior Managers with responsibility for coaching, performance assessment, career development, and quality oversight across 60+ Platform Architects Attract, recruit, and hire top talent for Director, Senior Manager, and Platform Architect roles, leveraging networks across FSI verticals and enterprise markets Proactively manage pipeline of accounts across all FSI Major Areas, ensuring visibility into upcoming projects and resource needs to support strategic business growth Ensure proper staffing for all engagements by matching skills, experience, certifications, and FSI domain knowledge to project needs, optimizing team performance and customer outcomes Drive AI tooling opportunities to increase job satisfaction, process efficiency, and collaboration between Platform Architecture and Expert Services teams Monitor and adjust staffing plans and skillsets to maintain alignment with FSI Major Area priorities, regulatory trends, and evolving delivery needs Embed a customer-first mindset and foster continuous learning, especially in AI, automation, financial services platform innovation, and regulatory technology Build a welcoming culture that embraces and models ServiceNow's core values across a geographically and industry-diverse organization Shape Platform Architecture Strategy for Customer Outcomes Influence Impact product roadmap by identifying and communicating customer insights, emerging architecture patterns, and FSI-specific opportunities for innovation across Banking, Insurance, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management Serve as executive sponsor for major modernization initiatives, enterprise-scale digital transformations, and industry-specific platform programs - including core banking system migrations, insurance claims transformation, and regulatory reporting automation Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence, empowering teams to experiment, learn, and adopt best practices that advance FSI-specific organizational capabilities Build strategic partnerships across Customer Outcomes, Sales, Product, and Partner ecosystems to drive adoption, value realization, and enterprise digital transformation at scale within the FSI vertical Ensure Platform Architects deliver architectural guidance across the full customer lifecycle: strategic roadmaps, solution design, deployment oversight, optimization initiatives, and ongoing technical go

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