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Deployment Engineer

The Deployment Engineer leads hands-on implementation of Celonis solutions, translating customer business needs into data models, analyses, KPIs, and operational workflows. The role requires consulting experience, Celonis platform expertise, PQL, SQL, Python, AI-assisted development fluency, and a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree.

About the job

Responsibilities

Initiate and Connect

  • Conduct business discovery workshops to translate customers’ strategic objectives into high-impact Celonis use cases.
  • Collaborate with customer IT and business stakeholders to define project scope, data requirements, and success criteria.
  • Configure data connectivity and extraction pipelines, working with specialist resources when required.

Build and Create Value

  • Direct AI deployment agents, including Apollo, to build data models, process analyses, KPIs, and dashboards.
  • Write clear specifications and validate AI-generated outputs against business requirements.
  • Build and configure Celonis solutions across the Process Intelligence Graph, data transformations, process analysis, operational solutions, and AI-powered insights.
  • Identify process inefficiencies and root causes in collaboration with customers.
  • Lead value-creation workshops and define measures to improve process inefficiencies.
  • Define and build KPIs to measure customer success and quantify business impact.
  • Design and build operational solutions that drive value, adoption, and process conformance.

Rollout, Adoption, and Handover

  • Enable key customer users to use and extend solutions independently.
  • Manage project outcomes against timelines, scope, and customer expectations.
  • Train and demonstrate solutions to customer users.
  • Document solution design decisions and configurations for future reference and handoff.

Domain and Industry Expertise

  • Develop and maintain expertise in process domains such as Supply Chain, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and IT Service Management, or in relevant industry verticals.
  • Translate domain knowledge into scalable solution patterns, reference architectures, and best practices.
  • Identify and standardize high-value use cases while collaborating with Product and Business Apps teams to shape the platform roadmap.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in management or IT consulting, data or solution consulting, or process improvement consulting within software vendors, consulting firms, or system integrators.
  • For Senior Deployment Engineer roles, 6+ years of experience with demonstrated project leadership.
  • Ability to build and configure solutions on the Celonis platform, including data modeling, process analysis, KPI definition, and automation.
  • Proficiency in PQL, SQL, and Python.
  • Comfort working with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
  • Ability to write clear specifications, evaluate AI-generated outputs, and iterate effectively.
  • Strong understanding or deep expertise in enterprise business processes and financial metrics.
  • Knowledge of standard ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle and process areas including Inventory Management, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Accounts Payable is a plus.
  • Ability to lead customer workshops, present findings to management, manage stakeholder expectations, and deliver outcomes amid ambiguity.
  • Ability to work with technical and business audiences.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a value-driven orientation.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and quantify business impact.
  • Willingness to continuously develop expertise through experimentation and adapt to evolving tools.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Technology Management, Business Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a comparable field.
  • Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.
  • Willingness to travel to customer locations up to 50%, according to customer requirements and project delivery phases.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
  • Opportunity to work with the Process Intelligence Graph and AI-driven business operations.

Skills

Celonis, Process Intelligence Graph, Pql, SQL, Python, Ai-Assisted Development, Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, SAP, Oracle, Data Modeling, Process Analysis, Kpi Definition, Automation, Data Transformations

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