Principal Architect, CPQ

Job ID: 20844Location: San Ramon, United StatesCategory: CX & Enterprise TransformationPrincipal Architect – CPQ product will own the end-to-end architecture of an AI-native platform built on frontier AI models and agentic workflows. Define the technical vision across product architecture, data platforms, pricing engines, knowledge systems, and AI services while making critical build-vs-buy, platform, and model strategy decisions. Partner closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to create a scalable, enterprise-grade solution that transforms complex sales and pricing processes through automation and intelligence. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, architectural rigor, and the ability to attract and mentor high-caliber engineering talent. What will you own?• Define the architecture for a hyperscaler and LLM-agnostic product built to run on customer infrastructure – not a platform-locked implementation.• Design the semantic data core: graph-based modeling with typed relationships, multi-tenant isolation, and provenance.• Architect agentic services – tool-using LLM agents, orchestration, guardrails, and retrieval grounding – as first-class product capabilities.• Set standards for async API design, state machines, code generation/templating, and draft-to-active data lifecycles.• Lead technical delivery end-to-end, mentor engineers, and make the build-vs-buy and model-selection calls. Must-Have Experience:• 15+ years building software, with a proven record of shipping real products 0-to-1 through scale – not just running projects.• Core LLM engineering: designing agentic systems with frontier models (Claude / GPT) – tool / function calling, agent skills, multi-step orchestration, and memory.• Production RAG: embeddings, vector search, chunking and re-ranking, semantic field-mapping, and grounding model output over enterprise data.• Prompt & context engineering: structured / JSON output, schema validation, evals and regression harnesses, guardrails, and cost / latency / quality trade-offs.• Strong in Python and modern JS/TS (React / Vite); async services, graph / semantic data modeling, containers, and cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP). Nice to Have:• CPQ / quote-to-cash or enterprise SaaS exposure. Salesforce or Revenue Cloud familiarity is a plus, not a requirement – this is a non-Salesforce-native product. Candidates should demonstrate the below listed critical leadership qualities:• Customer Advocacy – Ensures customer success on stated and unstated business priorities through strategic advice and market leading solutions.• Owner’s Mindset – Is passionate about Brillio’s business, deeply committed to its success and makes decisions that are in the best interest of the firm.• Innovation Ethos – Embraces ambiguity and adopts relentless experimentation to challenge current practices and enable continuous growth.• Execution with Pace – Displays agility to deliver high quality results in the face of changing stakeholder expectations.• Big Picture Thinking – Creates a common definition of shared success and sets bold targets that inspire the team towards new horizons.• Winning Through Teams – Enables a culture of collaboration and empowers teams to “raise their game” to create a winning formula.