ServiceNow architecture  ·  United Kingdom

ServiceNow architecture, mastered.

A solo Master-Architect practice. Twelve years on platform, thirteen ServiceNow certifications, no juniors learning on your instance. Built fast, shipped clean, designed to last.

12+Years on ServiceNow
100+Implementations shipped
UK& remote-first
Approach

The cost of over-design is higher than the cost of getting it wrong.

Most ServiceNow estates aren't undone by bad architecture. They're undone by trying to design every detail upfront, missing the moment when shipping would have taught more than another workshop.

Senior architecture is knowing which decisions need to be perfect and which need to be made and moved on from. CSDM, integration patterns, governance: these are the few lines that should not move. Almost everything else benefits from being shipped, used, and revised in the open.

That's why direct engagement matters. One Master Architect with twelve years of pattern recognition can tell when a decision needs another hour and when it needs to ship. That call is the work.

Working principles

Four things I genuinely believe.

01

Ship to learn, but ship clean.

Indecision is expensive. So is shipping work that compromises on rigour. The job is to do both: get something working to a senior standard, get it in front of real users early, and iterate on what they actually do with it. Architecture that never reaches production is theory. Production work without architecture is debt.

02

The licensing doesn't always add up.

ServiceNow's catalogue is wide, but it isn't infinite, and the licensing maths doesn't work for every workflow. Forcing an awkward OOTB module into work it wasn't designed for creates more debt than a well-scoped custom app on the same platform. Sometimes you need to build for yourself to make it worthwhile.

03

Certs are the floor, not the ceiling.

Thirteen ServiceNow certifications give you a solid foundation, and they're a credible signal to clients. They are not the same as expertise. Expertise is the experience and pattern recognition you only get from a decade of seeing what works and what doesn't on real estates with real users.

04

AI is a genuine accelerator, used properly.

Used as an accelerator on live build, AI is genuinely transformative. Used as a marketing label, it's just noise. Agentic workflows, Now Assist and tools like Claude Code can deliver real outcomes faster, but only when you know what you're doing and treat the AI like a capable junior, not an oracle.

Services

Six engagements. One standard.

A pure-play ServiceNow practice. Each engagement is led, designed and delivered personally, with no juniors, no handoffs, no escalation chain.

01

Architecture & Advisory

Platform strategy, CSDM design, integration patterns, governance models, and architectural reviews of in-flight or inherited estates.

CSDMGovernanceIntegration
02

AI-Augmented Delivery

Agentic workflows, Now Assist enablement, and AI tooling, Claude Code, MCP, agent orchestration, applied to live build as method, not marketing.

Now AssistAgenticMCP
03

Programme Architecture

Master-Architect-level oversight on multi-module, multi-stream ServiceNow programmes, holding the whole, so the parts cohere.

ITSM & CMDBService PortalMulti-stream
04

Custom Application Development

Where the standard estate's modules don't fit, a well-scoped custom Now Platform app usually beats another point solution, with lower five-year TCO.

Now PlatformScoped appsNative integration
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Selected work

Recent programmes.

Anonymised by convention. Available on request, where a non-disclosure permits.

European Retail Group
Lead Architect
ITSM consolidation onto a single ServiceNow estate across eleven markets; CSDM redesign and multi-instance rationalisation following a holding-company merger.
UK Telecommunications
Programme Architect
Converged ITSM, CSM and Field Service Management programme for a national network operator; integration architecture across the OSS/BSS estate.
NHS Healthcare Provider
Architectural Review
CMDB, Discovery and integration architecture across the clinical estate; architectural remediation of an inherited platform ahead of a major upgrade cycle.
All selected work
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