Senior Specialist Engineer-CPQ

Publication date : Mar 20, 2026, 12:00AM

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We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.

Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

About the role

About the Role

We are in search of a visionarySenior Specialist Engineer-CPQwho will architect, engineer, and scale next-generation cloud-native, API-first, microservices-driven platforms infused with advanced AI/ML intelligence. This role is not for the ordinary demands a technologist with 8+ years of deep, hands-on expertise across the full stack, someone who has consistently delivered high-performance, hyper-scalable, resilient, and secure systems from the ground up. You will lead the transformation of legacy ecosystems into modern digital powerhouses, co-create breakthrough capabilities, and seamlessly embed state-of-the-art machine learning models into production-grade solutions. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of complex distributed systems, cutting-edge frameworks, and enterprise-grade architectures, bringing both technical depth and creative innovation to deliver world-class digital experiences. In our fast-paced, Agile-first environment, you won’t just build software—you’ll define the future of intelligent platforms.

Why This Role Matters: This is far more than an engineering position—it is a strategic transformation charter for CPQ Transformation. As the driving force behind innovation, you will reimagine and engineer the future of telecom commerce, designing solutions that revolutionize how products are conceived, configured, quoted, and sold. Your ability to fuse technical mastery with visionary problem-solving will enable the creation of modern, intelligent, and elegantly simple platforms that set new benchmarks in performance and usability. Every line of code and architectural decision you make will directly accelerate revenue growth, elevate customer satisfaction, and carve out sustainable competitive advantage. This is your opportunity to not just build systems, but to reshape an industry.

Job Description

Mission

To lead the architecture, engineering, and deployment of next-generationcloud-native platforms that are AI/ML-powered, API-first, and microservices-driven, enabling the organization to deliver truly cutting-edge digital solutions. This role is a catalyst for transformation—driving the evolution of legacy systems into modern, intelligent ecosystems, embedding advanced machine learning models into production-grade platforms, and instilling a culture of technical excellence, agility, and continuous innovation. The mission is clear: to accelerate business growth, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation by building scalable, secure, and future-ready systems that redefine what’s possible.

Activities and Responsibilities:

• AI-Native Full-Stack Engineering

Lead the E2E architecture and development of intelligent, high-performance applications using Java (Spring Boot: REST APIs, microservices) and Python (FastAPI, PySpark, LangChain), delivering AI-first digital platforms that are secure, scalable, and future-ready.

• Next-Gen Platform Engineering

Build cloud-native, API-first ecosystemsfrom scratch and drive legacy-to-microservices transformations, creating distributed, event-driven architectures optimized for cloud hyperscale’s (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• AI/ML & LLM Innovation

Architect and operationalize end-to-end ML pipelines—from data wrangling and feature engineering to model exploration and validation. Integrate state-of-the-art LLMs (OpenAI, Llama, Claude, Hugging Face) with RAG, vector search, MCP, and advanced prompt engineering to enable intelligent automation, NLP-driven insights, and cognitive capabilities.

• Data Intelligence & Engineering Strategy

Design and optimize data fabrics using PostgreSQL, MongoDB (aggregation pipelines), ETL frameworks, vector databases, and graph databases, ensuring real-time analytics, high availability, and enterprise-grade security.

DevOps & MLOps Excellence

Establish CI/CT/CD pipelineswith Jenkins, AWS, Azure, and modern toolchains to automate model deployment, monitoring, and retraining, enabling continuous delivery of AI-powered solutions.

• Intelligent Automation & Quality Engineering

Develop AI-augmented testing frameworks (Playwright, Robot Framework, custom ML-driven QA)to achieve maximum coverage with minimal execution time, ensuring frictionless, production-grade releases.

• Scalable, Resilient & Secure Systems

Engineer self-healing, fault-tolerant architectures with zero-trust security models, leveraging distributed system design patterns to guarantee performance at scale under dynamic workloads.

• Cross-Functional AI Collaboration

Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, and DevOps/SRE teams to deliver AI-infused solutions aligned with strategic business outcomes.

• Technical Leadership in AI/ML

Mentor engineering teams in AI-first design principles, ML best practices, and responsible AI development, fostering a culture of innovation, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.

• Research & Frontier Innovation

Stay ahead of the curve by exploring emerging paradigms in generative AI, multimodal models, cloud-native ML, and distributed intelligence, driving competitive differentiation and industry disruption.

Key Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Technical Expertise:

1. AI-Native Full-Stack Engineering:Proven hands-on expertise in Java (Spring Boot: REST APIs, microservices) and/Or Python (FastAPI, PySpark, LangChain) as a backend API tech stack for building intelligent, scalable platforms.
2. Cutting-Edge AI/ML & LLM Integration:AI/ML & Next-Gen Platform Expertise: Experienceacross LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta LLaMA, Hugging Face), autonomous agent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen), multimodal AI (GPT-4.1, Gemini Ultra, Stable Diffusion XL, Runway Gen-3), and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant). Skilled in RAG/CAG architectures, MCP servers, DSPy prompt optimization, semantic search, and MLOps stacks (Kubeflow, MLflow, Weights & Biases) to deliver scalable, intelligent, and production-grade AI solutions.
3. Cloud-Native & Hybrid Architecture:Skilled in architecting API-first, microservices ecosystems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in hybrid cloud deployments and distributed, event-driven systems.
4. Telco Sales Capabilities and CPQ -Proven Experience of working on one more Telco CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) platforms building scalable pricing engines, product catalogs, and automated quote-to-order workflows
5. Digital Transformation Leadership:Track record of modernizing legacy monoliths into cloud-native microservices, driving enterprise-scale digital transformation and enabling business agility preferably one one or more CPQ Transformation engagements.
6. Data Engineering & Intelligent Storage: Strong proficiency in relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (MongoDB) databases, with expertise in aggregation pipelines, scalable data models, and high-performance storage strategies.
7. System Design & Algorithmic Excellence: Advanced knowledge of OOP principles, system design concepts, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, applied to architect high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.
8. Technical Standards & Governance:Experienced in defining architectural blueprints, coding standards, and engineering best practices, ensuring consistency, reliability, and technical excellence across teams.
9. Domain-Specific Data Modeling:Specialized in designing scalable, intelligent data models for complex product catalogs, dynamic pricing engines, and customer configuration systems, enabling real-time personalization and analytics.

Technical Leadership

• Ability to coach and mentor new onboards and junior team members towards increasing team knowledge and cross-pollination /upskilling.
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including business owners

Strategic Thinking

• Ability to understand business pain areas and devise tactical strategy towards permanent remediation, resolution with strategic depth
• Understanding of design thinking and human-centered approaches to innovation
• Capability to propose modernization of legacy IT estate to deliver reduction in TCO and increase in operational efficiencies
• Exceptional communication, collaboration and presentation skills, both written and verbal

Problem-Solving and Adaptability

• Creative problem-solving skills, especially in ambiguous situations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with quick context switching
• Willingness to learn and implement new solutions as needed

Business Acumen

• Understanding of industry-specific challenges and opportunities
• Ability to align technical implementations with overall business goals
• Focus on delivering measurable business outcome

Skills/CompetencyProficiency Level
Hands-On Proficiency and Experience in programming languages such as Core and Advanced JAVA, Springboot ,Python (Fast API ,Pandas and Flask libraries, PyTorch, PyMongo, Langchain, StreamLit) and associated frameworksExpert
Hands-On Proficiency and Experience working on cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for infrastructure and deploymentAdvanced
Hands-On Experience on microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and API first design (REST/SOAP)Advanced
Experience with Telco-Sales Capabilities and CPQ PlatformsAdvanced
Strong background in AI/ML development, including experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG, vector Search, prompt engineering building and deploying ML and conversational agents, agentic workflows on CloudAdvanced
Strong Understanding and experience on multiple database technologies across both Relational and Non-Relational DBMS (MDB, MySQL, PostGres, VectorDB etc)Advanced
Experience with test automation and quality assurance frameworks (TDD/BDD and tools like Robot, TestNG, Playwright etc)Advanced
Strong system design skills for building performant, scalable, highly available, reliable, and secure applications.Advanced
Understanding of cybersecurity principles and data protection standardsIntermediate
Understanding of telecom products, services, and BSS/OSS architecture esp. Telco Sales Capabilities and CPQ Domain (Quoting and Pricing)Expert
Knowledge on one or more S/W development methodologies like Agile Scrum, SAFe WoW )Intermediate
Ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes across business and technology teamsAdvanced
Knowledge of TM Forum frameworks (eTOM, SID, Open APIs)Intermediate
Effective communication, Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skillsExpert
Adaptability in dynamic, Agile, fast-paced, multi-cultural international environmentAdvanced
Strategic thinking and alignment with business transformation goalsIntermediate


About you

Eligibility Criteria

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of hands-on design and development experience in a full stack environment, with at least 4 years of proven track record in building and scaling cloud-native, API-first microservices platforms.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java/Python and associated frameworks, with deep proficiency in AI/ML/DL tech stacks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, ONNX, MLflow).
• Proven track record of working with Telco Sales Capabilities and CPQ platforms, building custom workflows, APIs, and integrations to support complex telecom product offerings.
• Experience in designing and deploying end-to-end ML pipelines including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Solid understanding of MLOps practices (CI/CD for ML, model versioning, automated retraining, monitoring drift) and integration with cloud platforms (Azure ML, AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI).
• Ability to architect and implement intelligent automation solutions leveraging ML/DL, NLP, and agentic workflows for solving complex, ambiguous business problems.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills to bridge technical depth with business outcomes.
• Proven ability to design cost-effective, scalable AI-driven engineering solutions that balance innovation with operational efficiency.

Good to Have:

• Experience working in Agile, fast-paced environments with geo-distributed, multi-cultural teams across both FTE and partner ecosystems.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools like Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum and SAFe delivery methodologies, with experience in driving AI/ML initiatives within structured frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with data engineering /pipeline tools (Spark, Kafka, Airflow) and cloud-native data platforms for large-scale ML workloads.
• Understanding of ethical AI practices-responsible AI, bias mitigation, and responsible AI deployment in enterprise contexts.

You bring rigor, passion for challenges, and determination. You seek the opportunity to expand your expertise, achieve your goals, and thrive.

What we offer

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

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