Varicent Solution Architect

Position: Varicent Solution Architect
Experience: 10–15+ years of Varicent experience

Role Overview:
This role will serve as a lead architect for an enterprise Varicent Sales Compensation platform, supporting ongoing enhancements, production support, reporting, integrations, issue resolution, and periodic incentive compensation payout operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead architect for the Varicent Sales Compensation platform.
• Analyze business requirements and recommend scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Design and enhance compensation plans, calculation logic, reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and compensation statements.
• Provide advanced production support, including incident/defect resolution, troubleshooting, performance issues, and root cause analysis.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation payout cycles.
• Validate compensation calculations and payout results and investigate discrepancies.
• Work closely with Sales Operations, Finance, and Compensation teams.
• Support data imports, exports, transformations, integrations, and data quality issues.
• Support testing, deployments, and production validation.
• Manage BAU maintenance and enhancement requests, including effort estimation and prioritization.
• Maintain system documentation and operational procedures.
• Provide technical guidance and best practices to business and technical stakeholders.

Required Experience:

• 10–15+ years of hands-on Varicent experience.
• Experience as a Varicent Solution Architect, Lead Consultant, or Technical Lead.
• Strong understanding of incentive compensation management, commission calculations, and sales performance management.
• Extensive experience supporting production Varicent environments.
• Experience with compensation payout operations and supporting business users.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience partnering with Sales Operations, Finance, and Compensation teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance, or a related field.