CPQ Solution Architect @ Anaplan

Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!

Your Impact

As a member of the IT Go-to-Market Tools and Systems team, you’ll work directly with key decision-makers and company owners to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face. This experience also allows you to see firsthand the positive impact your efforts can have on the client’s success.

The CPQ Solution Architect serves as a subject-matter expert on Salesforce Configure, Price, Quote projects, responsible for client delivery, proposals, new business opportunities, and knowledge management. The Solution Architect works to understand requirements and enable the authoring/development of quality solutions that meet the requirements.

Your Qualifications

8+ years of functional, hands-on Salesforce CPQ experience; 3+ years in leading Salesforce CPQ project implementations as a Solution Architect.
Able to translate business requirements into functional user stories and design scalable best practice solutions using Salesforce CPQ, along with the suite of Salesforce products and 3rd party applications.
Excellent track record of delivering successful systems implementations with high stakeholder satisfaction.
Ability to accept and manage changing priorities and address issues quickly and professionally.
Ability to lead and facilitate recommendations for solutions or improvements and reviewing solutions that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
Demonstrated ability to drive the end-to-end lifecycle of developing integration solutions, from conception to launch and post-launch support.
Experience in back-end development of Salesforce including but not limited to design of data models, a strong knowledge of SOQL and SOSL, and usage of web technologies.
Effectively act as the liaison between our users, vendors, and the application development team

Nice to Haves

Experience with Advanced Approvals, Salesforce Communities, Salesforce Billing, and recommending CPQ solutions.
Experience working on projects that included an integration to Workday.
Functional knowledge of 3rd Party Applications: Document generation, such as Conga ; Contract Lifecycle Management; Electronic signature, such as DocuSign
Proficiency in Agile or Agile-hybrid methodologies.
Administering comprehensive training and documentation to both end-users and CPQ admin users.
Preferred Salesforce Certifications: Community Cloud Consultant, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Platform Developer I, Data Architecture and Management Designer, Sharing and Visibility Designer, Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondences, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcement is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:

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