# Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,000 - $200,000 a year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect to set technical direction and lead connected planning for Corporate FP&A. In this role, you will be both architect and hands-on builder, independently guiding complex design decisions while coaching FP&A colleagues toward greater self-sufficiency.

You will help advance an autonomous, continuously updated forecast grounded in business drivers, robust data, and validated machine-learning inputs, freeing Finance partners to advise the business and giving leaders timely projections.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and build connected models for financial statements, workforce, allocations, annual planning, and long-range scenarios.

- Shape the planning architecture and roadmap with Finance leaders, balancing business value, scalability, and delivery capacity.

- Establish design standards and resolve cross-model dependencies to keep planning solutions intuitive, performant, and maintainable.

- Coach FP&A users and builders to own more of their analysis, scenarios, and model development.

- Integrate trusted enterprise data and predictive outputs into Anaplan, partnering with data and analytics engineers.

- Advance continuously refreshed, driver-based forecasting with clear reconciliation, review, and override controls.

- Provide technical leadership to builders and implementation partners, owning solution quality, acceptance, and knowledge transfer.

Requirements:

- Extensive hands-on Anaplan experience with a record of architecting and delivering complex connected planning solutions.

- Deep understanding of Corporate FP&A and the judgment to translate Finance priorities into architectural decisions.

- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex delivery while building directly in a lean team.

- Experience with integrations, model performance, reconciliation, and controlled deployment.

- Experience mentoring builders, developing Finance users, and advising senior stakeholders on design and delivery tradeoffs.

- Anaplan Solution Architect certification or Master Anaplanner designation.

- Experience with integrated three-statement planning and driver-based forecasting.

- Experience integrating predictive models or enterprise data platforms with planning applications.

Benefits:

- Pay within range listed ($130,000 - $200,000 a year)

- Bonus

- Benefits

- Equity

## Skills

### Required
- Anaplan
- Corporate FP&A
- connected planning solutions
- integrations
- model performance
- reconciliation
- controlled deployment
- mentoring builders
- three-statement planning
- driver-based forecasting

### Nice to have
- Anaplan Solution Architect certification
- Master Anaplanner designation
- integrating predictive models
- enterprise data platforms

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