Enterprise Architect Director

About the role

Celonis, the platform for Enterprise AI, is looking for a senior leader to grow and lead its team of Enterprise Architects in Madrid. The role combines deep technical expertise, people management experience and executive presence: you act as an executive sponsor, present to customer C-level executives and help your team turn strategic goals into actionable technical plans. Your main aim is to support the sales organization in reaching revenue goals by removing technical blockers through close partnerships with Sales, Value Engineering, Product Management, Data Ops and Information Security.

Key responsibilities

• Hire, mentor and manage a team of Enterprise Architects who define the architecture, data and cloud strategy for the largest client accounts.
• Sponsor pre-sales and post-sales engagements, presenting to C-level executives and working with customer architecture and security teams.
• Guide the team in designing architectures that drive enterprise modernization, use capability mapping and explore solutions with emerging technologies such as Agentic AI.
• Bridge Celonis product and engineering teams with client teams to deliver premier technical services.
• Assess the IT landscape maturity of customers' installed base and coach account teams and ecosystem partners on architecture, integration, performance and scalability.
• Develop reusable project assets and customer-facing position papers and thought leadership on architecture and innovation.

Required profile

• 20+ years of relevant experience, including managing Enterprise Architects or technical teams at a top consulting firm or software vendor.
• MSc in Computer Science or an equivalent in an IT-related field.
• Fluent English; Spanish, French, German or Italian is a strong advantage.
• Preferred: Celonis certifications and leadership experience with OCPM and Case Centric Data Pipelines, plus industry-standard certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP, Mulesoft, TOGAF/Zachmann).
• Preferred: experience across at least two domains and two industries.

Required skills

• Capability mapping, enterprise modernization and Agentic AI.
• Data architecture, system integrations, data operations and automation; SQL and Python.
• Cloud-native architectures, SaaS platforms (Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics CRM, ServiceNow), cybersecurity basics, APIs and legacy on-premise architectures.

What we offer

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
• Parental leave: 24 weeks fully paid for primary carers, 12 weeks for supporting carers.
• Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and a flexible hybrid work model.
• Learning through the 70-20-10 framework, mentorship and a dedicated learning platform.
• Wellbeing support, including Wellhub membership, mental health counselling and Wellness Weeks.
• Paid time off for volunteering during Impact Days.