CPQ Architect

Company Overview

Flowserve seeks excellence, innovation and ownership. As an individual contributor or a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will help Flowserve maintain its position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Flowserve supports professional development and industry-leading rewards, underpinned by values of people first, integrity and safety. Flowserve is driven to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone.

Technology Overview

Flowserve’s IT assets are varied, and our team delivers innovative CPQ solutions. By joining the team, you will be part of the transformative Enterprise CPQ initiative. This multiyear project will modernize and standardize current sales tools into one integrated business stack that streamlines the sales process and delivers value to customers.

We seek someone who combines out-of-the-box ideas with practical analytical thinking. Your job is not merely to capture business requirements and convert them to code, but to identify legitimate business needs and intelligently design solutions that address those needs while stimulating process improvement.

Position Description

Location
:
Must reside within the US

Travel
: 25% (International)

Reports To
: IT Manager, CPQ Program Delivery

Works With
:

Flowserve is a diverse, global company. As CPQ is a key component in Lead to Cash, you will collaborate with Sales, Sales Operations, Product Management, Engineering and IT, gaining exposure to business partners and participating in an international cross-functional team.

As a CPQ Architect, you will work within Flowserve to understand requirements and implement solutions within an enterprise CPQ. A successful candidate must master the administration and implementation of the software and understand engineering requirements to develop an optimal solution.

Accountabilities

The CPQ Architect is accountable for the following:

• Build a deep understanding of sales and quoting processes with the aim of continuous improvement

• Understand current CPQ solutions and identify areas that could be standardized or consolidated

• Work with Flowserve business to understand requirements to implement CPQ solutions

• Design and architect CPQ configurations and commerce flows that enable cross selling of different products (pumps, valve and seal equipment)

• Participate in the hands-on build of the designed solution. Ensure all solutions are built to scale and work across various product lines

• Participate in testing and deployment of CPQ solutions to develop and maintain a stable, efficient CPQ environment

• Work with other team members to integrate CPQ with Salesforce CRM, ERP and other enterprise systems

• Provide troubleshooting and programming support for the current Flowserve applications running on Oracle CPQ

• Support ongoing Continuous Improvement Projects

• Act as a resource and mentor for junior team members and develop talent across teams in different time zones

• Reinforce lessons-learned through collaboration and refinement of solutions and ideas submitted by team members

• Play a prominent role within the CPQ Solution Delivery team as a thought leader and architect during the Enterprise CPQ program

Required Experience / Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years relevant work experience (Analytical position within engineering or business discipline)

• Knowledge and experience with SQL, Java or C#, JavaScript, JQuery, XML/XSL, BML

• Understanding of efficient business processes within Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) domain

• Experience with requirements and constraints related to heavy industry and the manufacturing process, including lead-time calculations

• We are open to candidates with varied levels of experience; however, at least 5 years of relevant Oracle CPQ experience is required

• Experience with commerce flows within CPQ

• Ability to analyze business processes and develop systems/programs to support and improve them

• Experience with agnostic CPQ

• Ability to support multiple, geographically diverse facilities

• Demonstrated, applied experience delivering complex projects

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively,…