Principal IT Architect, CPQ TK Elevator Corporation

Overview

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TK Elevator is currently seeking an experienced and hands‑on Principal IT Architect, CPQ located in Atlanta, GA.

TKE is currently seeking an experienced Principal Architect to work in the IT Architecture organization. This role is responsible for bridging technology & business goals to create achievable enterprise solutions. They will be required to have a relevant experience in quote‑to‑cash processes and expertise in defining strategy, creating guidelines and best practices for CPQ (Configure, Price & Quote) solution with integrations to CRM and ERP.

The Principal Architect must have a broad knowledge of software, hardware, applications, networking & business process engineering, while influencing architecture, design, & integration of solutions.

• 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.

• 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…