Anaplan Systems Architect

About the Role

Dataiku is seeking a Senior Manager, Anaplan & Sales Compensation Systems to lead our Anaplan platform strategy within Strategic Finance. This is a net-new, high-visibility role responsible for owning the end-to-end architecture, governance, and roadmap of our Anaplan environment — spanning sales compensation, headcount planning, and forecasting. Beyond platform administration, this person will be a driving force in modernizing how Dataiku's FP&A function operates — identifying where manual, spreadsheet-driven processes should give way to systematized, scalable workflows, and helping lead that transformation end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap and architecture for Anaplan across sales compensation, headcount planning, and forecasting modules
• Serve as the senior escalation point for data integrity issues, leading root-cause investigation when Anaplan doesn't reconcile to source-of-truth systems (Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, Greenhouse)
• Manage relationships with external Anaplan consultants and implementation partners — scoping statements of work, vetting proposals, and holding vendors accountable to timelines and quality
• Partner directly with Sales Finance, RevOps, Sales Compensation, and Accounting leadership to translate evolving commission plans, ASC 606 accrual methodology, and org changes into scalable model design
• Drive FP&A finance transformation — identify opportunities to modernize planning, forecasting, and reporting processes across the broader FP&A org, championing automation and systematization over manual, offline workarounds
• Lead process and controls improvements to catch data issues before payroll processing and month-end close, replacing manual reconciliation workarounds with systematized checks
• Present recommendations and platform strategy to finance leadership, including trade-offs between build-vs-buy, technical debt, and long-term maintainability
• Act as a strategic thought partner to FP&A leadership on where finance technology and AI-enabled tooling can modernize how the team operates
• Build and mentor a team (starting as an individual contributor with plans to scale) responsible for day-to-day model builds, integrations, and support
• Own platform governance: user access, security, environment management, and documentation standards
• Drive standardization and automation across reporting, reducing reliance on offline spreadsheets and one-off fixes

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience building and implementing Anaplan solutions, including 3+ years in a leadership or senior IC capacity managing scope and stakeholders directly
• Anaplan Certified Model Builder (Level 2+; Master Anaplanner preferred)
• Deep experience designing, developing, and maintaining Anaplan models for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and sales compensation; strong Data Hub integration and design experience
• Demonstrated track record of leading finance transformation initiatives — modernizing legacy processes, introducing new tools/systems, or re-architecting how a finance function operates
• Track record of managing external consultants/implementation partners, including scoping and vetting proposals
• Strong understanding of sales compensation structures, ASC 606 commission accounting, and FP&A forecasting concepts
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex, cross-system data reconciliation issues independently
• Familiarity with system implementation methodologies (requirements gathering, design, build/test, deploy); Agile experience a plus
• Excellent stakeholder management skills — able to influence senior finance and sales leadership and translate technical model logic for non-technical audiences
• Experience with Workato or similar integration/automation platforms is a plus
• Comfortable operating with high ownership in an ambiguous, evolving environment, and confident recommending process or system changes when the current approach isn't working

Pay

US only national base pay ranges $152,000 - $190,000 USD.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401k company match
• Paid vacations and sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Employer paid disability coverage
• Additional health and wellbeing perks and benefits