
Principal Engineer, ServiceNow Architect
Wells Fargo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • Arizona • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and drive the architectural and engineering direction of the ServiceNow platform.
- Ensure platform initiatives are delivered securely, at scale, and in alignment with enterprise standards.
- Lead technical feasibility and integration efforts as governance expands to include Artificial Intelligence - Solution Domains Across IT, HR, Risk and Platform.
- Establish and evolve platform standards, patterns, and guardrails.
- Ensure governance models are scalable, pragmatic, and consistently applied across the ServiceNow ecosystem.
- Provide technical leadership for GenAI capabilities on ServiceNow, business case development, architectural alignment with enterprise AI strategy.
- Collaborate to enforce consistent UX and interaction patterns across employee-facing experiences.
- Partner with Platform Architects to identify technical debt across GenAI and platform domains, drive modernization efforts that align with enterprise architecture standards.
- Serve as a technical authority and integrator across governance, GenAI capabilities, platform stability, and modernization initiatives.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
- 5+ years of ServiceNow Development, Design, or Implementation experience
- Proven experience establishing and scaling a Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) with enforceable governance models that balance innovation with platform health and technical debt control.
- Hands-on expertise designing and operationalizing AI governance frameworks on ServiceNow, including AI Search, Now Assist, Virtual Agents, and Agentic flows, with emphasis on security, data residency, model risk management, prompt/response guardrails, and performance.
- Advanced experience architecting resilient, scalable, maintainable integrations (APIs, eventing, messaging) across large tool ecosystems; familiarity with A2A protocols, zero-trust patterns, and observability/SRE practices for integration health.
- Experience in financial services or other regulated industries; familiarity with model risk management and data protection in AI-enabled features.
- Executive presence and influence—serving as a trusted partner to engineering leadership, product management, enterprise architecture, and technology executives; skilled at portfolio rationalization, platform strategy alignment to product strategy, and value realization.
- ServiceNow Certified Application Developer
- ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist
- ServiceNow Certified Technical Architect / Certified Master Architect
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- A BS/BA degree or higher
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ServiceNow DevelopmentServiceNow DesignServiceNow ImplementationAI governance frameworksAPI integrationeventingmessagingzero-trust patternsobservabilitySRE practices
Soft Skills
technical leadershipexecutive presenceinfluencecommunication skillscollaborationportfolio rationalizationplatform strategy alignmentvalue realization
Certifications
ServiceNow Certified Application DeveloperServiceNow Certified Implementation SpecialistServiceNow Certified Technical ArchitectCertified Master Architect