Pricing Technology Configuration Engineer, Associate

About the Role

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services. As a Pricing Technology Functional Consultant-Associate, you will specialize in providing consulting services focused on pricing strategies and profitability analysis. You will analyze pricing models, assess customer profitability, and offer guidance to help clients optimize pricing strategies, improve profitability, and maximize customer value.

Key Responsibilities

Pricefx Configuration & Development

• Configure and extend Pricefx using Groovy scripting to implement pricing logic, workflows, data transformations, validations, and UI behaviors.
• Build and maintain pricing procedures: discount guardrails, approval workflows, price list logic, segmentation models, and agreement constructs aligned to business requirements.
• Develop reusable configuration components and accelerators following engineering standards to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability.

AI-enabled Pricing & Analytics Build

• Partner with functional and analytics teams to embed AI-assisted pricing use cases such as:
• Intelligent deal guidance / next-best discount recommendations within governance guardrails.
• Anomaly detection on price changes, margin leakage, and discount outliers.
• Customer/product segmentation and elasticity signals.
• Alerts for pricing compliance, approvals, and policy exceptions.
• Support build of pricing analytics including:
• KPI definitions (realized price, win-rate vs discount, margin waterfall, price variance, rebate effectiveness).
• Data preparation and validation.
• Insight outputs and dashboard enablement.
• Collaborate with data and integration teams to ensure analytic datasets are accurate, reconciled, and auditable.

Delivery Execution

• Participate in discovery sessions and requirement refinement workshops.
• Translate functional requirements into working Pricefx configurations and analytics outputs.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Pricefx delivery assets (Groovy scripts, configuration artifacts, deployment automation) to enable repeatable, auditable releases across environments (Dev/Test/UAT/Prod).
• Execute unit testing; support SIT/UAT cycles; manage defect triage and resolution.
• Support deployment, cutover, and hypercare activities.
• Troubleshoot configuration, Groovy logic, and production data issues.

Data & Integration Collaboration

• Work with integration/data teams on inbound/outbound interfaces (ERP, CRM, CPQ, master data systems).
• Ensure correct mapping, validations, and error handling for pricing master data, agreements, and rebate datasets.
• Support reconciliation of price lists, customer hierarchies, product structures, and commercial conditions.

Documentation & Quality

• Produce technical documentation including configuration designs, Groovy logic documentation, test cases, deployment guides, and runbooks.
• Participate in code/configuration reviews and follow secure engineering practices.
• Ensure adherence to delivery standards and quality controls.

Additional Responsibilities

• Independently deliver medium-complexity Pricefx configurations and Groovy logic with limited supervision.
• Implement KPI logic and validate analytics outputs for accuracy and business alignment.
• Identify edge cases and propose configuration alternatives/tradeoffs.
• Provide effort estimates for assigned user stories or workstreams.
• Mentor Associates/Analysts on configuration best practices.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Hands-on Pricefx implementation experience with configuration ownership.
• Strong proficiency in Groovy scripting (or equivalent scripting background with demonstrated Groovy delivery).
• Solid understanding of pricing concepts: price lists, discounts, approvals, segmentation, customer/product hierarchies, rebate structures, governance controls.
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and practical CI/CD execution.
• Experience working in cross-functional delivery teams (functional, data/integration, QA, release management).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate requirements into scalable configuration and analytics outputs; strong troubleshooting skills.
• Experience building pricing analytics (margin leakage analysis, deal performance, price realization, rebate effectiveness).
• Familiarity with integration patterns (REST APIs, ETL/ELT, validation/error handling).
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Exposure to ERP/CRM/CPQ ecosystems and enterprise master data management.
• Oral and written proficiency in English required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering / Computer Science / IT or related field preferred).
• At least 2 years of experience.
• Pricefx certification preferred.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
• Exposure to AI/ML use cases in pricing or commercial analytics (segmentation, forecasting signals, anomaly detection, elasticity concepts).
• Strong Pricefx configuration and Groovy-based extensions.
• Analytics mindset with focus on KPI accuracy and business impact.
• AI-aware delivery (governance, explainability, operationalization of insights).
• Testing discipline and structured defect management.
• Clear communication of risks, dependencies, and design tradeoffs.
• Collaboration across distributed and multi-time-zone teams.