Salesforce CPQ Solution Architect

598
3 years ago
Remote
Full Time

ABOUT YOU

As a Salesforce Solution Architect, you will serve as a trusted advisor to the business. In this role, you will be driving conversations with other system architects, business/technical subject matter experts, and Product Management/Finance teams that promote product modeling and pricing best practices and effective order capture processes. This position will report to the Director of Professional Services.

What you’ll be working on

  • Comprehending business requirement documents and user stories, with the purpose of creating functional specifications and system design specifications
  • Eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
  • Collaborating with the business systems operations team to translate business requirements into system functionality requirements
  • Managing project work, enhancements, and fixes, from the request and requirements stage through build, validate, and deployment – ensuring that there are few revisions needed along the way because the needs analysis was conducted thoroughly
  • Providing strategic technical insight with respect to the CPQ tool
  • Serving as a technical adviser for out of the box Salesforce.com CPQ features and functions
  • Supporting the remaining Salesforce CPQ implementation roadmap from design to deployment, user adoption, and ongoing improvements and system administration
  • Managing the relationship with key business stakeholders to help define and meet business priorities
  • Define and execute functional, regression, unit, and user acceptance testing.
  • Comprehend and uphold release management best practices – related to internal release management and product functionality upgrades coming from the vendor
  • Coordinate and communicate process and system changes impact with cross-functional teams
  • Provide sufficient technical details about the configuration that will enable user acceptance testing to be thorough and comprehensive

What you bring to the role

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related discipline (preferred)
  • 8+ years of hands-on roles in the areas of Quote to Cash, from business requirements assessment to solutions as well as coordinating/leading solution design, development/configuration, and deployment across multi-dimensional teams
  • 4+ years of Salesforce.com experience including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ (Steelbrick), APEX, and/or VisualForce
  • Salesforce CPQ Specialist certification preferred
  • Intrinsic motivation and accountability towards achievement – an excitement to “get things done”
  • Strong knowledge and experience in understanding of GTM (Go-to-Market) plan and strategy, and execute the related process and system changes with a plan
  • Excellent track record of delivering successful systems implementations with high stakeholder satisfaction
  • Strong understanding of Salesforce CPQ capabilities, best practices, and limitations, and the ability to clearly communicate those to key stakeholders
  • Ability to accept and manage changing priorities and address issues quickly and professionally
  • Ability to lead and facilitate recommendations for solutions or improvements and reviewing solutions that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive the end-to-end lifecycle of developing integration solutions, from conception to launch and post-launch support
  • Experience in back-end development of Salesforce including but not limited to the design of data models, a strong knowledge of SOQL and SOSL, and usage of web technologies
  • Understanding of key salesforce.com architectural concepts (API, governor limit, force.com platform, Test coverage, Apex, Visual Force, Workflow, Process Builder, Triggers, etc) and how they influence design.
  • Effectively act as the liaison between our users, vendors, and the application development team

Benefit Offerings 

  • 401(k)- 4% match vested immediately
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Laptop of choice (PC or MAC)
  • Paid Annual Company Holidays
  • Remote Working Flexibility
  • Training & Certification Reimbursements

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