Principal Enterprise Architect

Celonis Celonis · Data AI · New York, NY · Value Engineering

Celonis is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to design and implement transformative solution architectures for enterprise clients, focusing on leveraging Agentic AI and driving modernization. This role supports the sales team by overcoming technical blockers and bridging communication between product/engineering and client teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and define the overall architecture, data and cloud strategy for our largest client accounts
  2. Confidently engage with customers C level their strategic objectives with the Celonis technical strategy
  3. Drive innovation by identifying and architecting solutions that leverage emergent technologies, including Agentic AI.
  4. Be the bridge between our product & engineering teams within Celonis with the clients teams to provide the best technical services for our clients
  5. Assess our customer installed base IT landscape maturity for the region

Skills

Required

  • 10 to 15 years of relevant experience (Software vendor Architect, Top consulting firms CTO or Enterprise Architect at a customer)
  • Strategic thinking
  • Data Architecture
  • Integration patterns
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Technical demonstrations
  • System integrations
  • Data operations
  • Automation
  • Cloud native architectures
  • SaaS solutions
  • Cybersecurity fundamentals
  • API ecosystems
  • Legacy on-premise enterprise architectures
  • English fluency
  • MSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to have

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Celonis Certifications
  • OCPM
  • Case Centric Data Pipelines
  • AWS Certifications
  • Azure Certifications
  • GCP Certifications
  • ESB / ETL Certifications (Mulesoft,Oracle,SAP,Talend, Informatica, etc..)
  • Finance domain experience
  • Manufacturing domain experience
  • Supply Chain domain experience
  • Customer/Consumer Management domain experience
  • HR domain experience
  • Procurement domain experience
  • Consumer Goods industry experience
  • Banking industry experience
  • Pharma industry experience
  • Aerospace industry experience
  • Telco industry experience
  • Transport industry experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven experience
  • deep technical expertise
  • executive presence
  • confidently present to C-level executives
  • translate their strategic goals into actionable technical plans
  • Agentic AI
  • support our growing sales team
  • unlocking technical blockers
  • partnering closely with our Sales, Value Engineering, Product Management, Data Ops, and Information Security teams
  • supporting engagements with new prospects
  • existing customers that look to expand their footprint
  • new customer acquisition rates
  • retention
  • up-selling
  • contribution to overall sales team and business success
  • Proven ability to think strategically
  • connecting technical solutions to business value and customer objectives
  • Strong background in Data Architecture
  • Integrations patterns
  • 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
  • system integrations
  • data operations
  • automation capabilities
  • Strong understanding of cloud native architectures
  • SaaS solutions (Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM,ServiceNow, etc..)
  • cybersecurity posture fundamentals
  • API ecosystems
  • legacy on-premise enterprise architectures
  • Fluency in English
  • additional language such as Spanish, French or Italian is a strong advantage
  • MSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent in Information Technology related field