Principal Enterprise Architect

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing AI, data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need your help. Care to join us?

The Role:

We are looking for a curious, smart, and “learn it all” Architect with proven
experience and a passion for designing transformative solution architectures for our
prospects and customers. This high-impact role demands a unique blend of deep
technical expertise and executive presence, requiring you to confidently present to
C-level executives and translate their strategic goals into actionable technical plans.

You will work with technical teams at our prospects and customers to design
architectures that drive enterprise modernization, leveraging techniques like
capability mapping and exploring innovative solutions with Agentic AI. Your primary
goal is to support our growing sales team in achieving revenue goals by unlocking
technical blockers and partnering closely with our Sales, Value Engineering, Product
Management, Data Ops, and Information Security teams.

You will be responsible for supporting engagements with new prospects as well as
existing customers that look to expand their footprint. Measures of success include
new customer acquisition rates, retention, up-selling, and contribution to overall
sales team and business success.

The work you’ll do:

• Lead and define the overall architecture, data and cloud strategy for our largest client accounts
• Confidently engage with customers C level their strategic objectives with the Celonis technical strategy
• Drive innovation by identifying and architecting solutions that leverage emergent technologies, including Agentic AI.
• Be the bridge between our product & engineering teams within Celonis with the clients teams to provide the best technical services for our clients
• Assess our customer installed base IT landscape maturity for the region
• Participate in pre-Sales and post-Sales phases, engaging with customer Architecture and security teams
• Coach and guide Celonis consulting teams and ecosystem partners on technical implementation related issues (architecture, integration, performance and scalability)
• Develop re-usable assets for the consulting teams on projects
• Develop customer facing position papers, assets and thought leadership presentations on architecture and innovation with Celonis
• Creation of technical designs and presentations for internal and client stakeholders

The qualifications you need:

• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience (Software vendor Architect, Top consulting firms CTO or Enterprise Architect at a customer)
• Proven ability to think strategically, connecting technical solutions to business value and customer objectives.
• Strong background in Data Architecture, Integrations patterns, and Development background in data related languages (SQL, Python...)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation and creativity skills
• You can comfortably switch from explaining an architecture diagram to an environment where you coded/assembled a demo of the architecture
• Strong technical background with a focus on system integrations, data operations and automation capabilities
• Strong understanding of cloud native architectures, SaaS solutions (Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM,ServiceNow, etc..), cybersecurity posture fundamentals, API ecosystems and legacy on-premise enterprise architectures
• Fluency in English, an additional language such as Spanish, French or Italian is a strong advantage 
• MSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent in Information Technology related field

Preferred:

• Celonis Certifications and Experience with OCPM and Case Centric Data Pipelines
• AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications
• ESB / ETL Certifications (Mulesoft,Oracle,SAP,Talend, Informatica, etc..)
• Experience in at least 2 domains among: Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer/Consumer Management (Service,Order Management, Sales),HR,Procurement.
• Experience in at least 2 industries among: Consumer Goods, Banking, Pharma, Aerospace,Telco, and Transport.

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