As the Principal Program Architect you will be responsible for all Sales and Sales Operations systems and tool design, adoption, and maintenance. The Principal Program Architect will be responsible for determining the strategy for a portfolio of deliverables in one of the following six areas:
Sales Process
Quoting and Purchasing
Order Fulfillment and Installation
Product Operationalization
Support and Compliance
Renewal and Retention
The Principal Program Architect will be responsible for representing their area on any and all strategic initiatives. The Principal designs solutions partnering with GTS and ePMO, and serving as the Agile Product Owner. The Principal Engineer is also responsible for partnering with business unit leadership to ensure that their specific requirements are well documented and prioritized with GTS [Business Relationship Management].
Each Principal Program Architect will own a program portfolio of approximately $4.5M in development resources ( 4-8 programs) end-to-end from discovery, to project charter, to prioritization, feature identification, user story creation, development, and organization of testing. They will partner with ePMO to ensure timely delivery and appropriate stakeholder engagement. The Principal Engineer will also act as a consultant to business leadership around process improvements within CRM and ERP.
In the event of procuring a new tool or replacing an existing one, the Principal Engineer is responsible for leading the collection and documentation of the business' user stories and obtaining feedback. They will also be responsible for gaining approval of the solution design by all stakeholders, creating test plans, conducting UAT, and decommissioning any legacy systems if one is being replaced. Once the system is live, the Principal Engineer is accountable for ensuring that all primary and secondary support providers understand the tool design, its utilization, and what is expected of them post-implementation.
DESIRED SKILLS:
-Experience communicating with Director and above leadership.
-Program management experience.
-Strong technical acumen and familiarity with CRM, ERP, CPQ, and CLM systems.
-5+ years of Salesforce, Salesforce Admin Certification preferred
-2+ years of SAP experience preferred.
-Product Owner certification such as CSPO or SAFe POPM
-Overall understanding of SaaS business processes and experience in implementing solutions to gaps from a technical and/or project management perspective.
-Need to be inquisitive and constantly wondering how we can make the sales cycle faster, more effective, and/or easier to complete.
-Must be able to work autonomously and make large business impacting decisions confidently. Subject matter expertise in a large variety of additional software applications as well as the business acumen required to apply them to business problems.
-This role Interacts regularly with senior leadership from all business units
-Ability to see the big picture and potential risks of interaction between systems.