Job Description:

Our client is currently seeking an experienced and hands-on Principal IT Architect, CPQ located in Atlanta, GA. Principal Architect will work in the IT Architecture organization. This role is responsible for bridging technology & business goals to create achievable enterprise solutions. They will be required to have a relevant experience in quote-to-cash processes and expertise in defining strategy, creating guidelines and best practices for CPQ (Configure, Price & Quote) solution with integrations to CRM and ERP. The Principal Architect must have a broad knowledge of software, hardware, applications, networking & business process engineering, while influencing architecture, design, & integration of solutions.

Essential Job Functions:

• Help business leaders envision Configure, Price and Quote solutions to streamline sales with integrations to CRM and ERP, foster partnerships with stakeholders and creates value propositions in quote-to-cash processes.
• Define CPQ Strategy, standards and best practices in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, developers, and administrators, to deliver integrated solutions while minimizing customizations.
• Collaborate across IT, Business Partners and vendors to ensure implementations and integrations are designed, developed and deployed in a scalable way.
• Propose and implement improvements to optimize the use of CPQ within manufacturing, sales, field service and customer service processes.
• Configure advanced CPQ features, pricing logic, workflows and templates
• Perform thorough testing of solutions to ensure they meet functional and technical requirements, conducting regular system audits and ensuring data integrity.
• Develop solutions cross functionally, owning the implementations needed in CPQ, including design, implementation, quality control, end-to-end testing plans in multiple
• environments (dev/test/stage/prod), troubleshooting, bug fixing and post release end user support.
• Provide input on delivery timelines for implementations, set expectations cross - functionally.
• Provide input into Quality Assurance to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are deployed with minimal defects.
• Participate in daily standups, discovery sessions, backlog refinement, sprint planning and
• retrospective meetings for the Salesforce team.
• Review and approve configuration and coded items to be deployed between environments; this can include from time to time supervising the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment of CPQ and dependent system changes.
• Write documentation on technical designs, technical processes, best practices; from time to time this can include providing technical training for cross-functional teams.

Who we are looking for

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• Typically has 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations with exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Minimum 10 years of experience designing and supervising complex implementations of CPQ solution and integration with CRM and ERP, preferably SAP CPQ
• Background in enterprise security, identity management (SSO, OAuth, SAML), data protection, and compliance.
• Proven experience with system integration patterns, APIs (REST, SOAP), middleware, and asynchronous architectures.
• CRM and ERP implementation and support experience is a plus
• Ability to be a visionary to proactively assist in defining future CPQ projects. Ability to conceive strategies, solutions, build consensus, and execute solutions.
• Capability to work both independently and as a team member. Strong communication skills in interfacing with partners and the IT community are required.
• Aptitude to educate and guide others on architectural standards, principles, methodology and trends.
• In-depth experience aligning business requirements with IT solutions.
• Ability to interact with all levels of management to assess business requirements, and to plan, manage and deliver stable, reliable and cost-effective technology solutions.

Accountabilities:

• Thorough understanding of systems to perform functional and non-functional requirements analysis and testing based on requirements.
• Define problem statements, analyze process, system, data and people issues and present solution options for requirements
• Define and comply with standard processes to maintain high availability and stability of application/system
• Timely resolution of Problems and Issues
• Accurate and timely completion of assigned components of the detailed project/plan

Preferred Qualifications:

• Salesforce Admin/Developer certification
• SAP or Oracle implementation certification or equivalent work experience
• Master Data Management experience

Rate: $80-$95/hour (depends on experience level). This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours/ week. 

Salary: Upon conversion - $190- 200k + 40% bonus + benefits.  

About Us

Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a transparent, inclusive, and human-centered hiring experience.

For more than 28 years, PTP has operated as one of the top IT staffing and recruiting firms in the USA—built on trust, long-term partnerships, and technical excellence.

Based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, our team of more than 500 employees and consultants is dedicated to:

• Helping every client make the best hiring decisions possible
• Matching professionals with the right IT jobs and career opportunities

As part of that commitment, we believe in providing clear information about how our hiring technologies work and how your data is used. The following section outlines our AI-assisted interview process and your rights as a candidate.

AI-Assisted Interview Experience (Pete & Gabi – Rebecca):

To provide a consistent, fair, and flexible experience for all candidates, we use AI-assisted tools to support parts of the interview process. This includes our proprietary AI platform Pete & Gabi, which includes AI recruiter Rebecca.

These AI hiring tools help us:

• Transcribe interviews
• Summarize candidate responses
• Generate job-related insights
• Streamline communication and scheduling

Please note that:

• The AI does NOT make hiring decisions; all decisions are made by our human recruiters, hiring managers, or client partners.
• The AI does not evaluate facial expressions, emotions, or physical traits; it is used only to support fairness, consistency, and efficiency.

If you prefer a non-AI interview format, we will gladly provide an alternative.