Lead Deployment Architect AI

Celonis • Redwood City, CA

1d • $195,000 - $215,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Deployment Architect - AI, you are the senior technical authority within delivery and own end-to-end solution architecture for a portfolio of strategic customer engagements. You design and deliver enterprise solutions spanning data foundations and integration, process intelligence, operational applications, automation, security, governance, change management, and production operations. You set architectural standards and delivery patterns, review solution quality, resolve escalations, and remain hands-on with implementations and emerging Celonis capabilities.

You advise strategic customers and their senior technology and business leaders, translating business challenges into platform strategies, defining use cases and success metrics, and guiding customers through their Process Intelligence maturity journey. You support pre-sales by scoping and estimating work and validating solution feasibility, helping ensure that proposed solutions can be delivered and scaled.

As part of the Advanced AI Practice, you determine when solutions call for fixed business rules, machine learning, AI reasoning, predictive models, or autonomous AI systems. You design the appropriate approach, define evaluation criteria, and establish production guardrails and monitoring. On complex engagements, you partner with Deployment Architects; where AI is central to the solution, you lead its architecture. You also mentor colleagues, contribute to hiring and practice standards, develop reusable solution patterns, and share production lessons with Product and Engineering.

The role requires 8+ years of relevant technical consulting, architecture, engineering, or delivery leadership experience, including at least 3 years in a senior or lead technical role. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field is required, along with willingness to travel to customer locations as project phases require. Visa sponsorship is not available. The California base salary range is $195,000–$215,000 USD; total compensation may also include bonus or commission, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in technical consulting, forward deployed engineering, solution or enterprise 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 on large-scale enterprise projects.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver complex end-to-end enterprise solutions spanning data integration, process intelligence, operational apps, and automation.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns, security, governance, and architectural trade-offs.
• Deep, demonstrable knowledge of SQL, Python, Bash or Shell scripting, and REST or SOAP APIs.
• Expert-level knowledge of the Celonis platform, including the Process Intelligence Graph, data modeling, advanced PQL, Python scripting, and its automation and orchestration engine.
• Ability to design solutions combining business rules, AI reasoning, predictive and statistical models, and optimization, and explain the rationale for each approach.
• Experience directing AI-assisted and agentic development tools such as Apollo, Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
• Experience taking machine learning or statistical models into production, or designing and delivering an end-to-end agentic system that acts autonomously, including selecting an approach, defining evaluation measures, and implementing guardrails and monitoring.
• Track record of building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, presenting transformation strategies, defending architectural decisions, and navigating complex IT environments and organizational dynamics.
• Experience owning technical delivery and escalations, scoping and estimating pre-sales effort, and leading workshops, design sessions, and strategic reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor technical staff, set quality standards, and contribute to organizational capability.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology Management, Business Informatics, or a comparable field.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations as required by project delivery phases.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with general-purpose programming languages such as Golang, JavaScript or TypeScript, Java, or equivalent.
• A degree in machine learning, statistics, data science, or a related quantitative field.
• Formal people-management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end platform architecture for complex enterprise deployments across processes, business units, systems, and geographies.
• Design secure, scalable, maintainable Celonis architectures integrated with customer systems and data strategies.
• Make and explain architectural trade-offs based on customer outcomes.
• Conduct design and code reviews and ensure solution quality and production readiness.
• Lead technical delivery on complex engagements, set direction, remove dependencies, and resolve escalations.
• Support pre-sales by scoping Services, estimating effort, and validating solution feasibility.
• Implement early-stage Celonis products for customers and maintain feedback cycles with Product and Engineering.
• Define long-term operating models for monitoring, access and security controls, change management, and quality as solutions scale.
• Advise senior customer stakeholders, build trusted relationships, and translate business challenges into platform strategies and value cases.
• Guide customers through Process Intelligence maturity, including platform expansion, IT change management, data security, AI readiness, and organizational change.
• Develop expertise in process domains or industries and translate it into reusable solution patterns, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with Product and Business Apps teams to shape the platform roadmap.
• Mentor Deployment Engineers and Deployment Architects in AI solution design, model evaluation, and production guardrails.
• Contribute to hiring by defining role expectations, interviewing candidates, and calibrating assessments.
• Develop reusable AI templates, host practice office hours, and help address AI capability gaps across Celonis Services.
• Share lessons from production AI deployments with Product and Engineering to inform platform and internal tooling development.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
• Fully paid parental leave: 24 weeks for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from the first day of employment.
• Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and generous PTO globally.
• Flexible hybrid work model.
• Learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
• Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and Wellness Weeks.
• Paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes during annual Impact Days.
• Inclusion community and annual Inclusion Days.
• Health, dental, and life benefits, 401(k), and paid time off are included in the total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior