Application Architect, Workforce

Summary

Join Anaplan's Workforce Center of Excellence as an Application Architect to design and build applications on the Anaplan platform for workforce planning, forecasting, and reporting. Collaborate with Product Management to define requirements, create application architecture, and work alongside model builders to bring applications to life. Ensure user experience meets standards and collaborate with GTM and Professional Services teams. Leverage Anaplan platform components, including model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, and PlanIQ. This role requires excellent collaboration skills, deep understanding of workforce planning, HR systems, and the Anaplan platform, along with model building expertise and an innovative mindset. Meet deadlines for new releases and upgrades, and contribute to the successful deployment of applications. Act as a trusted knowledge expert for Workforce Applications, potentially supporting sales and customer success.

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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred

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

Benefits

$137,000 — $197,000 USD