Principal IT Engineer (CPQ)

Your Career

We are seeking an experienced Principal CPQ Lead to spearhead our Salesforce CPQ initiatives and drive the technical transformation of our quotetocash (Q2C) ecosystem. In this role you will be responsible for the technical leadership and execution of multiple highimpact Salesforce CPQ projects ensuring they align with business objectives and embody technical best practices. You will serve as the senior technical expert for the CPQ domain optimize CPQ architecture and collaborate closely with IT & Business stakeholders to enhance quoting pricing and approval workflows. Your deep expertise will be crucial in guiding the technical direction and successful delivery of these solutions. Experience with or other advanced configuration engines is a strong plus.

As we move towards Salesforce Revenue Cloud you will be a key technical contributor to the strategic vision and execution roadmap ensuring our systems remain agile scalable and futureready in a fastpaced highdemand environment. This role requires profound technical expertise strong problemsolving skills a passion for innovation and the ability to technically lead and execute multiple complex projects in parallel with quick context switching.

This role reports to the Sr. Director of IT Applications.

Your Impact:

• Architect & Implement: Drive the architecture design and handson implementation of robust Salesforce CPQ solutions ensuring scalability performance and adherence to technical best practices.

• Strategic Technical Execution: Provide critical technical expertise to shape and execute the longterm Salesforce Revenue Cloud roadmap ensuring the seamless evolution from CPQ to an integrated quotetocash ecosystem from a technical implementation perspective.

• Technical Execution & Delivery: Lead the technical execution of multiple highpriority CPQ projects in parallel ensuring ontime highquality delivery while balancing business agility and system stability.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Sales Finance Revenue Operations and IT to provide technical guidance and solutions that streamline and optimize Q2C processes enabling faster deal cycles and revenue recognition.

• Deep Technical Expertise & Guidance: Serve as the subject matter expert and provide handson technical leadership in Salesforce CPQ including complex pricing rules product bundling advanced approvals contract lifecycle management and ERP integrations.

• Advanced Configuration Management: Champion and technically lead the adoption and implementation of or other advanced CPQ configuration engines to enhance complex product configurations and pricing strategies.

• Drive Innovation: Maintain a strong curiosity for emerging technology trends particularly in AI Agentic AI and machine learning. Actively identify evaluate and prototype opportunities to apply these technologies innovatively within the CPQ and broader Q2C ecosystem to enhance capabilities like predictive pricing guided selling and process automation.

• Enhance Engineering Velocity: Champion and leverage modern developer productivity platforms tools and methodologies to accelerate the delivery lifecycle and improve overall engineering team efficiency for CPQ solutions.

• Agility & ProblemSolving: Operate effectively in a fastmoving environment quickly switching between multiple initiatives while maintaining a strong focus on technical execution innovation and complex problem resolution.

• Technical Mentorship & Guidance: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers and developers working on CPQ solutions fostering a culture of technical excellence accountability and efficient delivery.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 12 years of experience in enterprise software development with at least 8 years of deep handson experience in Salesforce CPQ architecture development and implementation.

• Strong expertise in Salesforce foundational technologies: Apex Lightning Web Components (LWC) Triggers SOQL Flows REST/SOAP APIs and Platform Security.

• Profound CPQ knowledge including intricate product configurations sophisticated pricing strategies discounting logic advanced approval mechanisms quote template design and contract lifecycle management.

• Experience with or other advanced configuration engines for complex product and pricing configurations is a strong plus.

• Handson experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud and a strong technical vision for evolving CPQ solutions towards a seamless quotetocash system.

• Proven track record of technically leading and delivering multiple complex CPQ projects in parallel within a fastpaced highdemand environment.

• Experience designing and implementing integrations for Salesforce CPQ with ERP systems (SAP preferred) for order management and billing.

• Strong understanding and practical application of Salesforce DevOps CI/CD Git developer productivity platforms and deployment best practices in enterprisescale implementations.

• Experience working in an agile engineering environment providing technical leadership and guidance on projects with quick iteration cycles and high business engagement.

• Exceptional problemsolving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical challenges adapt quickly and operate effectively under tight deadlines.

• Experience working with global teams and architecting solutions for multiorg Salesforce implementations.

• Knowledge of AIdriven CPQ solutions and their potential technical impact and implementation strategies within revenue operations.

• Indepth knowledge of contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and their technical integrations.

Additional Information :

The Team

You will be part of a growing passionate and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world. We also strive to be the most peoplecentric company ever! That means were constantly working to make your experience amazing and you are part of the team breaking boundaries of what the workplace can be!

This is a unique opportunity to lead transformative initiatives that will drive efficiency innovation and cultural change across a large global sales organization. You will be at the forefront of integrating advanced technologies into our sales processes positioning the company for longterm success while delivering meaningful value to customers and stakeholders alike.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $167000/YR $270500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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