Lead Deployment Architect

Overview

Lead Deployment Architect serves as the most senior technical authority within delivery, shaping how Celonis solutions are architected and delivered across strategic customer engagements.

What you'll do

• Define architectural standards and end-to-end solution strategies for complex enterprise deployments.
• Design technical blueprints for Celonis platform integration with customer systems, data strategies, and transformation goals.
• Make architecture trade-off decisions (build vs configure, custom vs standard, phased vs big-bang) tied to customer outcomes.
• Own solution quality and outcome delivery by conducting design reviews and ensuring architectural standards are followed.
• Design AI deployment agent workflows (Apollo) for complex, multi-workstream engagements with validation checkpoints and quality gates.
• Serve as senior technical advisor to strategic customers, translating business challenges into platform strategies and success metrics.

What you'll need

• 8+ years in technical consulting, solution architecture, or delivery leadership in enterprise software/consulting/system integrators.
• At least 3 years in a senior or lead technical role with multi-stakeholder responsibility in large-scale projects.
• Ability to design complex, multi-component solutions spanning data integration, process intelligence, automation, and AI.
• Expert-level Celonis platform knowledge including the Process Intelligence Graph, data modeling, advanced PQL, automation/orchestration engine, and AI modules.
• Working knowledge of Python and ability to push the platform’s boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to design AI-augmented delivery workflows, including context engineering/multi-agent design or AI validation at scale.
• Fluency in English required; additional languages are a plus.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, Business Informatics, or comparable field.

Details

• Base salary range (New York, full-time): $162,000–$191,000 USD.
• Full Time schedule.
• Work described as “flexible hybrid work model.”