Job Title: Principal SAP CPQ Architect
Location: Hybrid (4 days onsite M,T,W,TH) some flex for the right candidate - relocation package for those who need to move to Atlanta, GA)
Est. Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months and will convert or extend
Type: (Flex or Perm or CTH): CTH
Most Important:
- Experience with SAP CPQ
- Experience integrating SAP CPQ to Salesforce via API Connectors
ROLE:
- Help business leaders envision Configure, Price and Quote solutions to streamline sales with integrations to CRM and ERP, foster partnerships with stakeholders and creates value propositions in quote-to-cash processes.
- Define CPQ Strategy, standards and best practices in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, developers, and administrators, to deliver integrated solutions while minimizing customizations.
- Collaborate across IT, Business Partners and vendors to ensure implementations and integrations are designed, developed and deployed in a scalable way.
- Propose and implement improvements to optimize the use of CPQ within manufacturing, sales, field service and customer service processes.
- Configure advanced CPQ features, pricing logic, workflows and templates
- Perform thorough testing of solutions to ensure they meet functional and technical requirements, conducting regular system audits and ensuring data integrity.
- Develop solutions cross functionally, owning the implementations needed in CPQ, including design, implementation, quality control, end-to-end testing plans in multiple
- environments (dev/test/stage/prod), troubleshooting, bug fixing and post release end user support.
- Provide input on delivery timelines for implementations, set expectations cross - functionally.
- Provide input into Quality Assurance to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are deployed with minimal defects.
- Participate in daily standups, discovery sessions, backlog refinement, sprint planning and
- retrospective meetings for the Salesforce team.
- Review and approve configuration and coded items to be deployed between environments; this can include from time to time supervising the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment of CPQ and dependent system changes.
- Write documentation on technical designs, technical processes, best practices; from time to time this can include providing technical training for cross-functional teams.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience.
- Typically has 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations with exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- Minimum 10 years of experience designing and supervising complex implementations of CPQ solution and integration with CRM and ERP, preferably SAP CPQ
- Background in enterprise security, identity management (SSO, OAuth, SAML), data protection, and compliance.
- Proven experience with system integration patterns, APIs (REST, SOAP), middleware, and asynchronous architectures.
- CRM and ERP implementation and support experience is a plus
- Ability to be a visionary to proactively assist in defining future CPQ projects. Ability to conceive strategies, solutions, build consensus, and execute solutions.
- Capability to work both independently and as a team member. Strong communication skills in interfacing with TKE partners and the IT community are required.
- Aptitude to educate and guide others on architectural standards, principles, methodology and trends.
- In-depth experience aligning business requirements with IT solutions.
- Ability to interact with all levels of management to assess business requirements, and to plan, manage and deliver stable, reliable and cost-effective technology solutions.
ACCOUNTABILTIES:
- Thorough understanding of systems to perform functional and non-functional requirements analysis and testing based on requirements.
- Define problem statements, analyze process, system, data and people issues and present solution options for requirements
- Define and comply with standard processes to maintain high availability and stability of application/system
- Timely resolution of Problems and Issues
- Accurate and timely completion of assigned components of the detailed project/plan
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Salesforce Admin/Developer certification
- SAP or Oracle implementation certification or equivalent work experience
- Master Data Management experience
