Principal Enterprise Architect

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

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