Enterprise Solution Architect

Company Overview At Zuora, we do Modern Business. We're helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies and ultimately the planet. It's an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world's most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences. **Job Summary**: As a Zuora Enterprise Solution Architect (ESA), you will be a trusted partner and advisor to live, already-implemented customers. This role is focused on maximizing the value of Zuora solutions by aligning them with customers' strategic goals, optimizing Order-to-Revenue operations, and driving measurable business outcomes. You will deliver customized roadmaps, lead strategic workshops, and provide ongoing optimizations to ensure that Zuora's platform continues to meet customers' evolving needs. Acting as a key strategist, you'll guide customers through challenges and opportunities, helping them unlock the full potential of Zuora to support their long-term growth and success. **Key Responsibilities**: **Strategy Alignment**: - Collaborate with customers to understand their business objectives and develop phased, actionable roadmaps tailored to their strategic goals. - Design scalable solutions that evolve with customers' growth, ensuring long-term value creation and adaptability to changing business needs. - Prioritize frameworks that deliver measurable outcomes and align with best practices in subscription management and Order-to-Revenue processes. **Strategic Advisory & Insights**: - Serve as a trusted advisor, offering actionable insights into industry trends, best practices, and process optimizations. - Provide strategic guidance to help customers leverage Zuora for operational agility, enhanced efficiency, and competitive advantage. - Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and improvement, ensuring customers continuously extract value from Zuora. **Workshops & Optimization**: - Lead standardization workshops to assess and optimize configurations, workflows, and customizations, establishing scalable and efficient frameworks. - Facilitate detailed workshops to refine configurations, improve system performance, and streamline processes, delivering tailored recommendations to maximize ROI and user satisfaction. - Lead technical configuration and integration reviews and provide optimization recommendations. **Qualifications**: - 5+ years of hands-on proficiency in Zuora Billing, Revenue, and CPQ modules, with expertise in designing scalable, impactful solutions. - 10+ years of Domain-Specific Expertise: Experience with Billing and Revenue Management and ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite. - Proven ability to deliver customer-aligned roadmaps and provide strategic advisory that aligns with evolving business needs. - Integration Proficiency, strong understanding of REST and SOAP APIs, and ETL, with experience integrating with ERP, CRM, and core systems. - Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical, and communication skills with a customer-first approach. **Preferred Skills**: - Advanced Zuora Certifications: Strong hands-on proficiency in Zuora Billing, Revenue, and CPQ modules, supported by certifications like Zuora Billing Certified Consultant and Zuora Billing Delivery Architect. - Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with GDPR, FISMA, ASC 606, and IFRS 15 compliance standards and their impact on revenue recognition. - Diverse Industry Experience: Ability to adapt solutions across various sectors, particularly in subscription management industries. - Global Project Leadership: Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects in international and cross-cultural settings. - Process Optimization: Expertise in leading workshops for standardization, configuration refinement, and process improvements to maximize ROI and efficiency. - Strategic Advisory Skills: Ability to provide actionable insights into industry trends, best practices, and operational strategies for long-term customer success. - Independent Consulting Acumen: Proven track record of self-directed consulting engagements, delivering results with mínimal supervision. - Strong Collaboration: Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, driving collaboration, and ensuring the successful delivery of large-scale solutions. ZEOLife at Zuora As an industry pioneer, our work is constantly evolving and challenging us in new ways that require us to think differently, iterate often and learn constantly—it's exciting. Our people, whom we refer to as "ZEOs" are empowered to take on a mindset of ownership and make a bigger impact here. Our teams collaborate deeply, exchange different ideas