Senior Solutions Architect

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes.

We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

The Role:

As a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in containerized solutions, you will play a crucial, pioneering role in this new initiative. Your primary focus will be leading the deployment of these solutions within our customer environments.

Solutions Architects are vital members of our project teams, often serving as the initial technical point of contact for our customers and key technical stakeholders for a successful deployment of Celonis. To ensure our customers achieve value, you will drive the technical setup required to leverage the full range of Celonis features and functionalities, including process mining, execution management, process automation, Action Flow, and task mining.

Given the unique nature of every customer environment, you will be the key liaison for translating the customer's technical requirements to ensure successful deployment on the clients infrastructure and successful integrations with their source systems. Furthermore, you will lead discussions on user management and authentication, acting as a technical partner to remove any technical barriers to user adoption.

The work you’ll do:

On Celonis side you are the key technical stakeholder for a successful technical delivery and onboarding of Celonis for enterprise clients.

Lead technical discussions to analyze customer architecture, recommend optimal solutions, and facilitate deployment, managing expectations amidst technical constraints.

Remove technical obstacles to maximize Celonis user adoption, clarifying technical risks and necessary tradeoffs.

Promote reusability by choosing between dedicated customer solutions and broader platform enhancements in collaboration with Celonis product development.

Establish real-time data integrations between customer systems and Celonis via APIs and internal tools.

Guide customers on authentication, user/group management, and provisioning best practices. Thus, removing all technical barriers to drive user adoption of Celonis.

The qualifications you need:

Proven experience of 5+ years, with at least 3 years in deploying and managing containerized applications on Kubernetes.

Advanced knowledge with at least one specific Kubernetes distribution (Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Red Hat Open Shift, etc.).Eligibility for UK Security Check (SC) clearance is required; existing clearance is a strong advantage.

Very good understanding of best practices in deploying, scaling, and maintaining highly available, secure and resilient containerized applications on Kubernetes, ensuring efficient resource utilization and operational stability. Proven experience implementing infrastructure as code (IaC, e.g. with Terraform) is required;
Helm or Kustomize experience is strongly preferred. Fluency with additional tools such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Ansible, etc., is a plus.

Experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) would be a plus.

Experience & interest in working with modern tech stack & methods like REST/SOAP…