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Senior Application Architect - Workforce Applications

Anaplan
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Mar 07, 2025
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self! Senior Application Architect - Workforce Applications Anaplan is solving the toughest challenges for workforce planning teams supporting strategy to execution. We have always had world-class flexibility and user adoption, but now, with our out-of-the-box workforce applications and embedded Anaplan Intelligence platform, we are delivering more value than ever, faster. Our solutions drive some of the world's largest companies, provide real-time insights, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and improve decision-making. Within Anaplan's Workforce Center of Excellence as a Senior Application Architect you will design and build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for planning, forecasting and reporting use cases - across industries - including Strategic Workforce Planning, Compensation Modeling, Operational Workforce Planning and Organizational design, to name a few. As a Sr Application Architect, you will be working directly with Workforce Applications Product Management to determine requirements for building applications. You will be responsible for creating the architecture for the applications and alongside model builders, making the application a reality. You will be responsible for working with technical Product Managers to determine platform dependencies needed to deliver world-class applications. Additionally, this role will collaborate with our GTM and Professional Services teams to ensure they fully leverage the capabilities of the applications. This role requires excellent collaboration skills, deep understanding of workforce planning use cases, HR source systems, the Anaplan platform, model building expertise, and an innovative mindset combined with strong attention to detail and deadlines. Key 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 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. Key Metrics 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. Qualifications 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. Ideal but not required: 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. Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred. #LI_REMOTE Base Salary Range: $177,000 — $255,000 USD Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 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