Product Lead Architect .Salesforce CPQ

Description: Required Qualifications: • A proven Senior Salesforce solution architect / Salesforce CPQ product expert with 10 years of design/architect experience and at least 5 full life cycle SalesForce.com implementations, with strong expertise in at least two of the following areas/modules: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, marketing Cloud with mandatory experience in Salesforce CPQ application • At least 3 project implementations with Salesforce CPQ (SteelBrick) that exploit the full capabilities (discover, design, implement and optimize) of the Salesforce platform - is a MUST • Salesforce CPQ Specialist and Quote to cash certification - must have • Strong functional knowledge of Lead to Cash process with expertise in Quote-to-Cash, Configuration, Product Catalog/modeling, Pricing, Quoting and CLM functional areas • Understand customer technical requirements and map these into Salesforce CPQ architectural capabilities • Share best practices and be consultative to clients throughout duration of the project- act as a trusted partner. Participate and lead, when needed, project meetings with the customer • Experience with Commerce, Configuration, Output, SFDC integration, product catalog/price list integration • Must have Salesforce developer/admin certification including 3 years of Salesforce development experience with Apex, VisualForce, Force.com and Angular JS • Good knowledge of Web 2.0 Development (JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, Struts) • Minimum of 3 years of experience in CRM tool set and have worked with JavaScript, Java, Rules Engines, Object Modeling, or XML • Understanding of frameworks like React, Angular, etc. are an advantage • JIRA experience • Willing to travel as required Responsibilities: • As a subject matter expert, judges the tradeoffs with technology and feasibility and makes choices that fit the constraints of the project • Works directly with clients/business leaders/process owners to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of solution • Ability to guide customer towards uses of standard out of the box software functionality to meet business requirements instead of relying on custom code solution. Understand platform limitations and design alternatives to work around limitations • Provide pre-sales support as requested. Participate in potential customer proof of concept (POC) • Ability to lead/facilitate design and modeling sessions with the client • Lead the creation of project deliverables, spanning from process to system design elements with an emphasis on functional and technical design • Functioning as Salesforce CPQ product specialist within the organization and industry. Participate in various communities and speaker at industry events • Help to setup Salesforce CPQ center of excellence as part of our client Salesforce Quote-to-Cash practice • Understand, design, supervise, and create technical configurations using Configuration product's tools, languages scripts based technologies • Ability to design, implement, and test leading-edge Quote and Product Configuration integrations with SFDC • If needed, coordinate developer tasks on large projects; lead design and code reviews to ensure accuracy and consistency • Provides guidance on all phases of SDLC and the impact of Salesforce CPQ, as needed • Guide and provide mentorship to the CPQ Practice team