Application Architect, Workforce

Summary

Join Anaplan as an Application Architect and build out-of-the-box workforce applications on the Anaplan platform. You will collaborate with Product Management to define requirements, design application architecture, and work with model builders to bring applications to life. Responsibilities include ensuring user experience meets standards, participating in quality assurance, upgrading applications with new platform capabilities, and partnering with various teams for demos, documentation, and ongoing improvements. You will act as a knowledge expert and potentially support sales and customer success. The role requires strong collaboration skills, deep understanding of workforce planning, expertise in the Anaplan platform, and an innovative mindset. Success is measured by meeting project deadlines and successful application deployment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Model Builder, deploying workforce, finance or operational use cases. At least Level 3 Certification.  Master Anaplanner preferred
• Able to bring an engineering discipline to Anaplan applications - ensuring scalability, configurable functionality and the ability to manage your application build activities through to completion and delivery

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver Workforce Applications by leveraging the suite of Anaplan platform components (including model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, PlanIQ, etc.) by
• Converting business requirements into innovative and performant solutions, partnering with Product Management.  Translating business requirements to technical terminology to ensure the product is built to follow best practices
• Working with complex requirements to design and build the application and UX to meet agreed upon standards
• Ensuring the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use
• Participating in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed, through successful delivery.  Guide performance testing and tuning to ensure the application can scale
• Upgrading applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features, as driven by prospects, customers and partner feedback
• Incorporating the latest innovations delivered on the Anaplan platform resulting in delightful user experiences
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Workforce COE delivers
• Compelling conceptual demos and all supporting content including training and guides
• Full configuration and implementation content, documentation, and best practices to Anaplan’s delivery Teams
• Ongoing Workforce Application improvements and optimizations
• Act as a trusted internal and external knowledge-expert for your Workforce Applications
• Potentially support Sales and Customer success with prospect and customer opportunities and escalations, including enabling Anaplan partners
• Meet the new release and upgrade project deadlines for Workforce Applications
• Adoption and successful deployment of Finance Applications from enablement by Anaplan Teams through to Customer implementations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with some of the wider facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Optimizer, ADO, Workflow and Polaris, etc)
• Experience with headcount planning, strategic workforce planning and skills-based capacity planning
• Understanding of product management, GTM operations and enablement
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a results-driven perspective, able to collaborate across teams, with a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred