Qualifications:
- Salesforce CPQ Specialist certified
- Salesforce Platform Developer II certified
- 5+ years of strong Salesforce development experience, including Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
- 3+ years of experience on full lifecycle Salesforce CPQ projects with strong implementation expertise
- 2 years of experience leading design and solutions with Enterprise Architecture for Salesforce implementations
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues
- Strong understanding of Salesforce CPQ capabilities, best practices, limitations, and the ability to clearly communicate these to key stakeholders
- Experience building flow process software, including Lucid chart, Visio, or other tools
Responsibilities:
As a Salesforce CPQ Architect, you will work directly with the project team as the SME responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising CPQ solutions aligned with Enterprise Architecture strategy and best practices. Your expertise in Salesforce CPQ, combined with a strong understanding of business processes, will play a crucial role in streamlining and enhancing the overall customer experience. Key responsibilities include:
- Provide technical product architecture and development expertise for Salesforce CPQ implementation projects
- Assess current business processes and pain points, and articulate how Salesforce CPQ can address these challenges
- Support the entire Salesforce CPQ implementation roadmap, from design to deployment, user adoption, and ongoing improvements
- Lead and facilitate the process of recommending solutions or improvements, including reviewing options achievable through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology
- Design applications that align with both long-term and short-term IT and business strategies, while providing integration expertise across the organization
- Drive the end-to-end lifecycle of developing integration solutions, from conception to launch and post-launch support
- Develop enterprise-wide application and custom integration solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces
- Research and track emerging technologies to develop innovative business solutions and applications
- Adapt to changing priorities, address issues promptly and professionally, and manage project timelines effectively
- Collaborate with the project team to create complex and business-critical software solutions, adhering to software engineering processes
- Establish programming and development standards, procedures, and architectures to promote code reuse and maintainability
- Act as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent within the organization
- Apply current application development methodology attributes and processes consistently
- Develop and maintain design plans for technical IT architecture, including distributed application and distributed architecture frameworks
- Define and maintain efficient development processes, coding standards, design patterns, testing methodologies, and development tools and procedures
- Ensure seamless integration points and interfaces with other systems through the implementation of next-generation technology
- Provide expertise and guidance to cross-functional teams and business application tools and architecture
- Collaborate with senior business leaders to understand use cases and translate them into technical solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem
- Offer strategic guidance to IT support teams and provide support for projects requiring technology integration
- Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations to IT leadership on their validity and potential benefits
- Lead the development of Salesforce technical architecture, architecture processes, frameworks, and best practices
- Oversee the technology integration function to ensure technical alignment across various business applications
- Support the design and approval of integrations between Salesforce and other systems, whether cloud-hosted or client-hosted
