Principal Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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), 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)
• 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