Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As an SAP CPQ Technical Consultant, you will be responsible for configuring and maintaining the CPQ application, ensure the business requirements are met and collaborate with solution architects in determining the right design approach. Provide expert dev guidance and leadership on our cpq/commerce applications development best practices, architectural design, coding standards, efficient APIs. Furthermore, lead on developing dynamic and responsive user interfaces, and integrating with DB2 databases and services. You will share expertise and mentor junior staff members, working in a collaborative environment to provide the best solution.

Responsibilities:

• Gather, validate, and document client business requirements while translating into CPQ product specifications
• Establish and ensure a strong alignment between the business requirements/needs and the CPQ solution/services
• Collaborate with Solution Architects on identifying design approach
• Configure CPQ application
• Reviewing a client’s configuration and use of the application to determine ways to improve performance, usability, and supportability
• Helping to develop process improvements that will facilitate knowledge transfer to others
• Design and develop technical solutions that will meet the Client’s business requirements utilizing SAP Sales Cloud CPQ standard functionality
• Develop solutions for integration between SAP Sales Cloud CPQ and third party CRM and ERP systems, as well as other cloud and on-premise systems
• Collaborate with other team members to implement and maintain the solution functionality using the IronPython frameworks
• Collaborate with other teams on integration data mapping exercises.
• Involvement in the full life cycle and change management process
• Support and work collaboratively with team managers across areas of Sales, UI design, Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Operations
• Ability to prioritize and support multiple projects at once

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Above all, we value curiosity, teamwork, and a desire to learn. We are confident that if you possess the right attitude, work ethic, and skill set, you could succeed in the role, even if you do not meet every one of the requirements below.

• Expert experience and proficiency (at least 7 years) on Java/Java EE, JSP, RESTful, Json XML, DB2, Javascript, React, Angular, Node, Python, Iron-Python, CI/CD pipelines.
• Fully experienced with SDLC including designing, developing, testing, and maintaining the above complex software cpq/commerce applications – both the backend and frontend.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in enterprise transformation of monolithic application architectures to microservices
• Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles
• Experience using modern collaboration tools in a highly responsive environment
• Great planning and organizational skills, good time management, with the ability to manage and prioritize own workload and to deal with urgent deadlines and changes to requirements
• Close teamworking and collaboration across both global and local team environments