Senior Application Architect

Summary

Join Anaplan's Workforce Center of Excellence as a Senior Application Architect! Design and build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for planning, forecasting, and reporting. Collaborate with Product Management to define requirements and work alongside model builders to create applications. Ensure user experience meets standards and collaborate with GTM and Professional Services teams. This role demands excellent collaboration skills, deep understanding of workforce planning, and Anaplan platform expertise. You will leverage your model building expertise and innovative mindset to deliver high-quality applications. Contribute to compelling demos, documentation, and ongoing application improvements.

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

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.)
• Convert business requirements into innovative and performant solutions, partnering with Product Management. Translate business requirements to technical terminology to ensure the product is built to follow best practices
• Work with complex requirements to design and build the application and UX to meet agreed upon standards
• Ensure the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use
• Participate in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed, through successful delivery. Guide performance testing and tuning to ensure the application can scale
• Upgrade applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features, as driven by prospects, customers and partner feedback
• Incorporate 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
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Workforce COE delivers: Full configuration and implementation content, documentation, and best practices to Anaplan’s delivery Teams
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Workforce COE delivers: Ongoing Finance 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with some of the wider facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Optimizer, ADO, Workflow and Polaris, etc)
• Experience with Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
• 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
• Advanced degree