Responsible for the technical strategy, technical roadmap, architecture, design and implementation of Configuration, Pricing, Quoting and Subscription applications as well as custom applications developed using standard tools/languages.
Design CPQ solutions for different software/services sales business models (perpetual license + AMC, Subscription Annual Recurring Revenue etc.)
Participate in discovery workshops to gather, define, and document current and future state processes, while accurately translating business requirements into system functional requirements.
Define best fitting functional solutions to business challenges by leveraging out-of-the-box platform capabilities and exploration of alternate solutions.
Lead system architecture and cross-platform integration discussions to create future state architecture diagrams with upstream/downstream application owners and system architects.
Synthesize and distill functional requirements into sizeable technical deliverables, through the development of technical roadmap, including Non-functional requirements (NFRs) definitions.
Develop robust, scalable, interoperable, and flexible solutions through the creation of architectural designs, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts and demonstrate functionality to Product Owners/Business Stakeholders.
Lead technical design, story grooming, estimation calls with Developers, BA’s and Integration architects and Product Owners.
Review, validate and approve all changes to the CPQ production system, to ensure scalability, minimizing technical debt.
Work with Enterprise Systems Architect to ensure our CPQ designs are aligned with global architecture, adhering to the long-term strategy and supporting where needed.
Define and develop API service layers, integration mapping and documentation of implemented solutions.
Ensure data is well maintained, design supports the elimination of data debt.
Own the design to minimize any future technical debt and build a plan to eliminate any existing technical debt.
Define and develop code specifications for developers to use in the event of customization than out of the box functionality.
Assist technical resources in solution design, development, and deployment during the lifecycle of the project.
Responsible for delivering technical solutions, process flow diagrams, architectural diagrams, integration artifacts, technical roadmaps, project estimations, POC’s, API endpoints, developer guides, CI/CD processes and relevant documents.
Provide hands-on development of complex modules, wherever needed during the project life cycle.
Research, evaluate and recommend emerging tools/technologies, with POC’s to Leadership team that adds value to business or brings efficiency/optimization to development lifecycle.
Evangelize, and guide Engineering team members through periodic code reviews.
Identify and address Technical Debt backlog on a continuous basis.
Qualifications/Requirements:
7+ years of experience in Quote to Invoice solution design and system architecture
3-5 years of experience in Salesforce CPQ, Conga etc.
3+ years of experience in delivering subscription (Annual Recurring Revenue) and billing solutions.
Experience in at least one of the subscription billing products; Zuora, Salesforce, Oracle.
5+ years of experience in complex integration designs using middleware tools for CPQ.
2+ years of experience working on HTML, CSS, JSON, React or Angular JS.
Extensive experience configuring products, bundles, pricing in CPQ, and set-up of complex product catalogue and advanced pricing including escalators.
Extensive experience in implementing BOM, ADO and JET UI with frontend development experience on CPQ.
Experience Working on Doc Designer, Email Designer, Approvals modifications, Workflows with advanced BML/BMQL scripting.
Knowledgeable about the following is a plus: Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud, Mulesoft, Tableau/CRM
Desired Characteristics:
Self-driven technical architect
Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies.
Sense of technical ownership of the system architecture/design and governance.
Problem-solving: Strongly developed problem-solving skills are crucial in this role.
Accountability in owning overall CPQ Design and driving it to success.
Team work to work with Product Management, DevOps, Fusion and other teams
Must be a strong team player with excellent communication skills at the business and technical level, able to collaborate as part of a team to deliver exceptional results in a rapid paced implementation environment.
Communication & Training: The CPQ Architect will conduct periodic internal developer training and coaching the team on best practices.
Evangelize: Evangelize the core CPQ Engineers on technical governance
Experience with managing technical projects in a large, complex enterprise environment on a global basis
Business Acumen:
Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
Has the ability to analyze the impact of technology choices?
Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.