Pricing Technology Solution Architect - Senior Manager

PwC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India is seeking a Pricing Technology Solution Architect - Senior Manager to lead Pricefx configuration, design pricing governance, and guide AI-enabled pricing initiatives. You will work across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services, coordinating with data/integration teams while driving sprint planning and delivery for complex pricing solutions.

You will mentor teams, ensure governance and auditability of outputs, and apply systems thinking to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in pricing/tech leadership.
• Hands-on Pricefx implementation with configuration ownership.
• Strong Groovy scripting skills with enterprise delivery.
• Experience across CI/CD platforms and pipeline-as-code.
• Solid pricing concepts: price lists, discounts, rebates.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Pricefx configuration and own pricing logic.
• Own design for price lists, discounts, and governance.
• Maintain CI pipelines for configuration artifacts.
• Design scalable, high-performance calculation logic.
• Establish reusable components and standards.
• Lead a Pricefx workstream or small team (3–8).
• Translate requirements into technical design and backlog.
• Drive sprint planning, SIT/UAT readiness and releases.
• Collaborate with data/integration teams on interfaces.
• Ensure quality through reviews and secure practices.

Skills

Groovy scripting

Pricefx

CI/CD pipelines

Pricing concepts

Team leadership

Troubleshooting

ERP/CRM interfaces

Agile/Scrum

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure Pipelines

CircleCI

Job description

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Customer

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands‑on learning, cutting‑edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.

As a Pricing Technology Solution Architect - Senior Manager, 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. As a Senior Manager, you will leverage your influence, skills, and network to deliver quality results. You will motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. With increased autonomy, you will apply sound judgment, recognizing when to take action and when to

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will be part of our Customer Consulting team, focusing on customer‑related strategies and initiatives. Within our Commercial & Service Excellence practice, you will analyze client needs, develop customer‑centric solutions, and offer guidance to enhance customer experience and drive business growth. You will craft and convey clear, impactful messages that tell a holistic story, apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems, and validate outcomes with clients. Your ability to develop and sustain high‑performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, along with your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our firm.

Responsibilities

Pricefx configuration & technical ownership

• Lead and review Pricefx configuration using Groovy scripting to implement complex pricing logic, workflows, validations, calculations, and UI behaviors.

• Own solution design for price lists, discount structures, approval flows, rebate agreements, and pricing governance constructs.

• Own and maintain CI pipelines for Pricefx configuration artifacts (scripts/logic, packageable configuration, integration templates) and for any related integration services.

• Design scalable, high-performance calculation logic (header/line-level execution, validity management, performance tuning).

• Establish reusable components, accelerators, and configuration standards to improve maintainability and delivery speed.

AI-enabled pricing & analytics enablement

• Shape and embed AI‑assisted pricing use cases such as:

• intelligent deal guidance within defined approval guardrails

• anomaly detection on price changes and margin leakage

• segmentation‑driven discounting and elasticity signals

• compliance alerts and exception monitoring

• Guide implementation of pricing KPIs including margin waterfall, realized price, win‑rate vs discount, price variance, and rebate effectiveness.

• Ensure explainability, governance, and auditability of AI‑driven outputs within pricing workflows.

Delivery leadership

• Lead a Pricefx configuration workstream or small team (3–8 members).

• Own technical design decisions and manage complex configuration dependencies.

• Translate functional requirements into technical design and delivery backlog.

• Drive sprint planning, defect triage, SIT/UAT readiness, release governance, and hyper‑care support.

• Manage technical risks, performance issues, and integration dependencies.

Data & integration collaboration

• Work with integration/data teams on ERP/CRM/CPQ interfaces, ensuring correct mappings, validations, and reconciliation controls.

• Oversee data quality checks for price lists, customer/product hierarchies, agreements, and rebate datasets.

• Validate end-to-end data integrity across inbound and outbound interfaces.

Documentation & quality

• Produce and review configuration design documents, Groovy logic notes, deployment guides, and runbooks.

• Conduct code/configuration reviews and enforce secure engineering practices.

• Establish quality gates and review standards across the configuration team.

What You Must Have

• At least a Bachelor’s degree

• Minimum 12 years of experience
• Hands‑on Pricefx implementation experience with configuration ownership.
• Strong proficiency in Groovy scripting with demonstrated delivery of pricing logic in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on familiarity with at least one CI/CD platform (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Pipelines, or CircleCI) and pipeline‑as‑code practices.
• Solid understanding of pricing concepts: price lists, discount governance, segmentation, approval workflows, rebates/incentives.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams (functional, data/integration, QA, release).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving capability.

What Sets You Apart

• Experience with pricing analytics and KPI frameworks (margin leakage, price realization, deal performance).

• Exposure to AI/ML concepts in commercial analytics (forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, elasticity).

• Familiarity with integration patterns, APIs, and data pipelines.

• Agile/Scrum delivery experience; tools such as Jira/Azure DevOps.

Travel Requirements

Up to 40%