Software Developer-Varicent

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary client-facing lead for all Varicent initiatives, driving business discussions, requirement gathering sessions, solution workshops, and roadmap planning.
• Partner with business stakeholders, compensation teams, and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable Varicent solutions.
• Lead end-to-end design, development, configuration, and support of Varicent SaaS-based Incentive Compensation Management solutions.
• Design and develop Varicent data models, hierarchies, imports, calculations, workflows, reports, dashboards, outbound processes, and security configurations.
• Act as the Varicent product SME, guiding business users on platform capabilities, best practices, enhancement opportunities, and solution approaches.
• Lead offshore development teams, perform design and code reviews, establish development standards, and mentor team members.
• Drive new feature implementations, compensation plan changes, territory and hierarchy updates, and production support activities.
• Manage project delivery estimates, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications across onshore and offshore teams.
• Support release planning, testing strategy, defect resolution, deployment activities, and post-production stabilization.
• Collaborate with business and leadership teams to continuously improve compensation processes, operational efficiency, and reporting capabilities.
• Drive issue resolution, escalation management, and ensure successful project execution while maintaining strong client relationships.
• Serve as the primary Varicent subject-matter expert for executive stakeholders, Sales Ops leaders, Finance Controllers, and IT leadership.
• Design AI-ready data and compensation solutions enabling business efficiencies.
• Own platform health, monitor performance, resolve technical issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead the Varicent upgrade and release management strategy, including regression testing and change management.
• Define and implement data governance, audit controls, and SOX-compliant configuration standards.
• Mentor and coach junior analysts and developers, conducting knowledge transfer sessions.
• Lead a blended team of internal staff and offshore resources.

Required Experience and Skillset

• 10 years of experience in Incentive Compensation Management with a minimum of 5 years hands-on Varicent platform experience.
• Strong expertise in the Varicent SaaS Platform including configuration, development, administration, deployments, and production support.
• Deep demonstrable expertise in both Varicent Designer data models, calculations, pipeline workflows, symbols, and Varicent Studio reports, dashboards, web forms, and conditional formatting.
• Proven experience delivering Varicent solutions for large-scale multinational enterprises.
• Track record of leading full ICM implementation projects independently from requirements through go-live.
• Advanced proficiency in Varicent Designer pipeline configuration, symbol logic, data transformation, error handling, and performance tuning.
• Strong SQL and relational database skills (SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL) for data validation and integration support.
• Understanding of ETL principles, API integrations (REST/SOAP), and flat-file data exchange patterns.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Additional Information

• Due to additional onboarding requirements, a meet and greet is required for all new hires.
• Candidates must be willing to go to the closest client or onsite location as indicated by the project team to meet with a team member prior to starting their assignment. If the candidate is not local, travel is covered by the company.
• If travel is involved and after selection the candidate declines the offer, costs will be paid by the vendor.