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Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence and Process Mining technology, is seeking an Enterprise Architect Director to lead and grow a team of Enterprise Architects supporting the company's enterprise sales organization. This is a high-impact leadership role combining deep technical expertise with executive presence and people management experience.
You will lead a team responsible for defining overall architecture, data, and cloud strategy for Celonis's largest client accounts. Your primary goal is to empower your team to support sales in achieving revenue targets while unlocking technical blockers through close partnerships with Sales, Value Engineering, Product Management, Data Ops, and Information Security.
Key responsibilities include:
- Hiring, mentoring, and managing a team of Enterprise Architects
- Acting as an executive sponsor in pre-sales and post-sales phases, presenting strategic visions to C-level customer executives
- Guiding your team to design architectures for enterprise modernization, leveraging capability mapping and emerging technologies like Agentic AI
- Serving as a leadership bridge between Celonis product/engineering teams and client teams
- Overseeing assessment of customer IT landscape maturity and coaching account teams on architecture, integration, performance, and scalability
- Directing development of reusable assets, customer-facing position papers, and thought leadership presentations
Success is measured by your team's impact on new customer acquisition, retention, upselling, and overall contribution to sales and business success.
Required qualifications: 20+ years of relevant experience managing Enterprise Architects or technical teams at top consulting firms or software vendors; proven strategic thinking ability; excellent communication skills with C-level executive experience; deep understanding of Capability Mapping, Enterprise Modernization, and Agentic AI; strong background in Data Architecture, system integrations, data operations, automation, and data languages (SQL, Python); knowledge of cloud-native architectures, SaaS solutions (Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM, ServiceNow), cybersecurity fundamentals, API ecosystems, and legacy enterprise architectures; MSc in Computer Science or equivalent IT-related field; fluency in English (additional languages like Spanish, French, German, or Italian are advantageous).
Preferred: Celonis certifications and extensive leadership experience with OCPM and Case Centric Data Pipelines; industry certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP, ESB/ETL tools, TOGAF/Zachmann); experience across at least two domains and two industries.
