# Lead Deployment Architect

**Company:** [Celonis](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/celonis)
**Location:** New York, NY, Munich, Germany, London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Celonis, Solutions Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Process Intelligence, Data Integration, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Data Pipelines, Automation, Solution Design, Pre-Sales, Technical Consulting, Reference Architectures, Scalability, High Concurrency
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads architecture and delivery strategy for complex Celonis enterprise deployments, advising strategic customers while establishing scalable solution, AI orchestration, and quality standards. Requires 8+ years in technical consulting, solution architecture, or delivery leadership and expert Celonis platform knowledge.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Solution Architecture & Design
- Support Services scoping in pre-sales, ensuring the right Services are positioned in line with the proposed Celonis solution architecture.
- Design end-to-end Celonis solution architectures for complex enterprise deployments spanning multiple process areas, business units, and geographies.
- Define technical blueprints for integrating the Celonis platform with customer systems, data strategies, and transformation goals.
- Design secure, scalable architectures for complex enterprise requirements, optimizing for long-term usage growth and high concurrency.
- Make architectural trade-off decisions, including build versus configure, custom versus standard, and phased versus big-bang approaches.
- Own solution quality and outcome delivery across engagements through design reviews and architectural standards.

### AI Orchestration & Delivery Innovation
- Design how AI deployment agents, including Apollo, are used across complex, multi-workstream engagements.
- Define agent workflows, validation checkpoints, and quality gates.
- Develop reusable specifications, templates, and patterns that help Deployment Engineers direct AI agents effectively.
- Pioneer delivery approaches that use AI to compress timelines, improve quality, and unlock new use cases.
- Set standards for AI output validation.

### Customer Strategy & Advisory
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to strategic customers and build relationships with VP and C-level stakeholders.
- Translate customer challenges into Celonis platform strategies, identifying high-impact use cases and success metrics.
- Support pre-sales by validating solution feasibility and shaping project scope.
- Guide customers through Process Intelligence maturity, platform expansion, AI readiness, and organizational change.
- Establish technical advisor relationships with customer data and transformation stakeholders.

### Successful Implementation
- Work with Deployment Engineers on complex and cutting-edge customer use cases.
- Implement early-stage Celonis products and maintain feedback cycles with Product and Engineering.
- Review solution blueprints for quality, scalability, and production readiness.

### Domain & Industry Depth
- Develop expertise in process domains such as Supply Chain, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and IT Service Management, or in industry verticals.
- Translate domain knowledge into scalable solution patterns, reference architectures, and best practices.
- Identify and standardize high-value use cases with Deployment Engineering, Product, and Business Apps teams.

### Practice Development
- Contribute to hiring by defining expectations for the Deployment job family, conducting interviews, and calibrating assessments.
- Share knowledge through enablement sessions, documentation, and communities of practice.
- Feed customer insights and field experience back into platform development and roadmap planning.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in technical consulting, solution architecture, or delivery leadership within enterprise software, consulting firms, or system integrators.
- At least 3 years in a senior or lead technical role with multi-stakeholder responsibility on large-scale projects.
- Proven ability to design complex, multi-component solutions spanning data integration, process intelligence, automation, and AI.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and trade-offs.
- Expert-level knowledge of the Celonis platform.

## Role Scope

- Work across multiple engagements and shape solutions across a portfolio, cluster, or industry vertical, typically covering 4+ concurrent clients.
- Influence solution architecture, AI orchestration patterns, and delivery quality across the practice.
- Bridge pre-sales and post-sales to ensure continuity between sold and delivered solutions.
- Multiply the effectiveness of Deployment Engineers through standards and reusable practices.

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