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Job Description
The Principal Enterprise Architect at Celonis is a senior strategic role responsible for designing and overseeing the company's enterprise architecture, ensuring platform scalability, security, and modernization, while aligning technical solutions with customer business objectives and leading cross-functional teams to deliver value-driven process intelligence solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and oversee the enterprise architecture, data, and cloud strategy for the customer within their IT landscape.
- Establish architectural principles, policies, and standards, and lead architecture review processes.
- Drive enterprise modernization using emerging technologies such as AI and process intelligence.
- Design complex data pipelines and integration patterns to connect disparate systems into a unified digital twin.
- Present technical designs and value propositions to senior stakeholders, aligning with their strategic goals.
- Manage customer escalations and ensure delivery aligns with customer strategy and targets.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, data scientists, and domain experts during customer engagements.
- Coordinate with product engineering teams to influence product roadmaps and resolve technical issues.
- Help customers establish and scale a Center of Excellence for Celonis solutions.
- Internalize customer strategies and ensure technical delivery supports their business-critical objectives.
Requirements
- 12 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or a CTO-level role at a major software vendor.
- Mastery of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
- Expert-level SQL and Python skills for data integration.
- Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies including Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Deep understanding of SaaS ecosystems such as SAP S 4HANA, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, as well as legacy on-premise architectures.
- Demonstrated experience in Agentic AI, Machine Learning workflows, and process mining methodologies.
- Strong foundation in cybersecurity posture, data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, and SOC2 ISO compliance within cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Experience designing and defining overall architecture, data, and cloud strategy for enterprise-level systems ensuring scalability, performance, and security across global deployments.
- Ability to establish architectural principles, policies, and standards, and lead or consult on Architecture Review Boards (ARB).
- Experience driving enterprise modernization by leveraging techniques like capability mapping and architecting solutions with emergent technologies such as Agentic AI and Process Intelligence Graph.
- Experience designing complex data pipelines, OCPM, and integration patterns including ETL, ELT, and API ecosystems that connect disparate systems into a unified Digital Twin of the business.
- Proven ability to confidently present technical designs and value realizations to CIOs, CFOs, and CTOs, aligning strategic goals with technical capabilities.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders to establish program roadmaps and internalize customer strategies and targets.
- Ability to organize and lead customer advisory boards to address industry-specific challenges and innovations.
- Experience mobilizing and leading multidisciplinary teams of Applied AI engineers, Data Scientists, and Domain Experts.
- Experience acting as the primary conduit between customer technical teams and Product Engineering to influence product roadmaps and resolve technical blockers.
- Experience helping customers establish and scale a Celonis Center of Excellence (CoE), mentoring internal architects and process leads.
Benefits & Perks
generous PTO
hybrid working options
company equity RSUs
comprehensive benefits
extensive parental leave
dedicated volunteer days
gym subsidies
counseling and well-being programs
community and support through inclusion and belonging programs
clear career paths
internal mobility
dedicated learning program
mentorship opportunities
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