CPQ Architect and Technical Consultant

CPQ Architect and Technical Consultant

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Job Family Definition:

Provides consulting to businesses, functions, and geographies that utilize IT services and drives effective business engagement for IT. Understands the specific goals and needs of the business, function, or geography and represents those needs to the IT organization. Develops and maintains relationships with appropriate members of the business/function/geography organization. Works to align business, function, and geography requirements with IT plans and priorities. Facilitates business, function, and geography involvement in IT projects to identify requirements, gather feedback, and finalize scope. Identifies opportunities for IT to leverage solutions across business, function, and geographic organizations. Establishes effective processes for managing the relationship on an ongoing basis. Communicates IT standards and new IT solutions, processes, and policies to the businesses, functions, and geographies. Connects business/function/geography 'customers' with appropriate IT technical resources when technical discussions are necessary.

Management Level Definition:

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function.

Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Strategy: Design scalable, enterprise-grade architectures for end-to-end Configure, Price, Quote and Ecommerce (B2B and B2C) use cases
• Pricing Engine Configuration: Define and implement complex pricing models, including bundled structures, tiered discounting, and pricing logic shopping
• System Integration: Define integration patterns between the pricing engine and upstream and downstream systems, including ERP and CRM
• Business Alignment: Partner with operations, commercial/sales, and other functional and technical teams to translate complex business requirements and 'edge-to-edge' pricing scenarios into clear, technical specifications and designs.
• Uses extensive business knowledge at domain level to drive engagement for the largest IT initiatives. Proactively engages in strategic business planning where there is IT impact; influences overall business strategies of customer organizations.
• Communicates strategic IT decisions and plans and works to achieve alignment at the top level of the business, function, or geography.
• Represents the needs of the business, function, or geography during the IT priority-setting process.
• Identifies leverage opportunities where IT can provide cost-effective, standard solutions to meet the needs of multiple business/function/geography organizations.
• Actively participates in IT projects to ensure that business, function, and geography 'customers' are included appropriately and ensures that they receive sufficient and timely communications.
• Promotes best practices found in working with one business/function/geography to other business and function organizations.
• Identifies the need for new IT processes as well as significant improvements to major IT processes and drives the development and implementation of those.

Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 12 years of related experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 10 years experience.
• Experience and expertise in defining technical architecture and designs to support and enable various pricing strategies
• Experience working with dynamic pricing and offer management software (e.g., PROS)

Knowledge and Skills

• Platform Expertise: Deep knowledge of leading CPQ platforms and/or custom CPQ implementations
• Pricing Logic Mastery: Advanced understanding of price books, attribute-based pricing, and complex approval threshold logic
• Integration Proficiency: Experience with APIs, middleware, and data exchange formats
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal skills. Deep business experience at domain level. Strong relationship management skills. Excellent project management and process development skills.

Additional Skills

Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Bias, Business, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis Management, Data Controls, Design Thinking, Development Methodologies, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Implementation Methodologies, Infrastructure Design, Intellectual Curiosity, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 4 more}

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job:

Information Technology

Job Level:

Master

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 119,500 - 275,000 in Georgia & Illinois & TexasThe listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

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