Cpq Domain Functional Architect Bangalore, Karnataka

**Job Family**: Product Management

**Job Title**:CPQ Domain Functional Architect**

**Remuneration**:Fixed + Bonus Plan

**Reports to: Director of IT - Lead to Quote Delivery**

**Based in**:Bangalore, India

**Why Choose VMware?**

VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. All through our solutions across compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.

Since our founding in 1998, our employees and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries—from Banking, Healthcare, and Government to Retail, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, and Transportation.

Every day, we work to solve our customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes and more-to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.

**The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**

VMware is going through a business and systems transformation as we pivot our Go-To-Market strategy from Perpetual product offering to SaaS and Subscription model. This role we are hiring will play a key leadership role in this transformation, being able to influence the business and systems architecture in the right direction with ample of opportunity to learn and grow.

**What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?**

We are looking for individuals who are self-motivated and with the passion to bring change to the organization. From a domain perspective, this individual should have a good understanding of CPQ, Quote to Cash, order management, SaaS business enablement, Subscription lifecycle business models, Renewals management, GTM offer enablement, Mergers, and Acquisitions etc. Our team is building a home-grown platform to support VMWare commercial strategies. This individual will be part of the core development of that platform to deliver in a fast-paced environment, driving strategies and execution with a strong focus on customer satisfaction, stakeholder management, on-time delivery, efficient task management, working with global teams - India, US locations.

**Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?**
- As an experienced CPQ Domain functional architect, you will make an impact from your first day on our team. You will contribute to the VMware CPQ system by bringing in your industry knowledge of SaaS and Subscription sales motion, Design & Architect the capabilities that are to be delivered guiding the rest of the team.
- You will help to build a balanced team and promote best practices throughout the organization around product documentation. You will use your experience to help shape the way our team works.
- You will augment your existing skills and experience as you learn the ins and outs of our dynamic environment. Each team member has at least one personal development goal at any time, and continued learning is expected.
- You will feel the ‘Day one’ feeling throughout your tenure in VMware given the ongoing learning and growing experience.

**What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?**
- Perform hands-on solution design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, process design and development tasks as required in support of current and new projects in CPQ domain
- Act as a liaison between Technical team, Functional team, Business Functions, and vendor to drive CPQ implementations
- Leverage business knowledge and expertise to drive business process improvements
- Facilitate requirements gathering and process mapping workshops
- Perform gap analysis: as is vs. to be
- Document functional business requirements, process flow diagrams, and business cases
- Key contributor in cross-functional teams, BRD review, development plans, and roadmap development
- Conduct Solution reviews with project teams prior to design and development activities and ensure solution aligned with business requirements
- Create and deliver high quality presentations
- Demonstrates ability to get things done thru influence and relationship building.
- Leads and applies industry standard project management techniques for small to medium size projects.
- Assists planning projects/programs, and supports business process redesign and IT architecture changes.
- Preparation of user documentation and training documentation as necessary
- Experience with multiple software delivery lifecycle methodologies such as - Waterfall, Agile

**What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?**

You will be part of the Digital Platforms Engineering (DEX) team within VMware IT. This role will be reporting to Sinna Naguesv