Lead Deployment Architect

Join Celonis, a leading process mining and execution management software company. As a Lead Deployment Architect, you will be the most senior technical authority within delivery, shaping how Celonis solutions are designed, architected, and delivered across your portfolio of strategic customer engagements. You will operate at the intersection of deep platform expertise, domain knowledge, and customer strategy, and will be responsible for defining architectural standards, designing end-to-end solution strategies, and ensuring effective deployment at scale. This role carries significant organizational leverage and offers the opportunity to make a real impact on our customers' success.

• Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of Celonis solutions across a portfolio of strategic customer engagements, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor to strategic customers, building trusted relationships with VP and C-level stakeholders, and translating customer business challenges into Celonis platform strategies.
• Collaborate closely with Deployment Engineers to implement complex use cases, stay updated on the latest technologies, and ensure the quality, scalability, and production readiness of solutions.
• Architecture skills: Proven ability to design complex, multi-component solutions that span data integration, process intelligence, automation, and AI, while remaining grounded in the “so-what” of a customer’s process. Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and trade-offs
• AI & agent orchestration: Demonstrated ability to design AI-augmented delivery workflows leveraging frontier tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.). Experience with context engineering, multi-agent system design, or AI validation at scale. Ability to define how AI should be used, not just use it
• Customer executive presence: Track record of building trusted advisor relationships with VP and C-level stakeholders. Ability to present transformation strategies, defend architectural decisions, and navigate complex organizational dynamics. Demonstrated experience navigating complex IT landscapes and communicating technical trade-offs to senior leadership
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, Business Informatics, or a comparable field
• Domain expertise: Deep knowledge in at least one major process domain or industry vertical. Ability to translate domain expertise into scalable solution patterns and credible customer advisory
• Languages: Fluency in English required. Additional languages are a plus
• Experience: 8+ years 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 in large-scale projects at tier-1 organizations (e.g. digital twin implementations, global AI transformations, near-real-time data pipelines, etc.)
• Leadership & mentoring: Demonstrated ability to raise the performance of teams around you. Experience mentoring technical staff, setting quality standards, and contributing to organizational capability development
• Platform mastery: Expert-level knowledge of the Celonis platform, including the Process Intelligence Graph, data modeling, advanced PQL, automation and orchestration engine, and AI modules. Ability to push the platform’s boundaries via a working knowledge of Python
• Consulting & communication: Exceptional ability to translate between technical and business audiences. Experience leading workshops, design sessions, and strategic reviews with senior stakeholders