Principal Application Architect

About the role

This is a business-critical position within our professional services function, responsible for shaping the future of how Anaplan's applications are implemented. You will be part of the Innovation Readiness team, focusing on creating scalable, repeatable, and successful implementation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep expertise in the functional and application architecture for a specific domain or application set.
• Owning the end-to-end solution design and deployment for Beta application implementations, establishing the gold standard for future projects.
• Partner with the Delivery Methodology team to develop, refine, and validate the implementation methodology for new applications through Beta implementations.
• Develop, refine, and scale implementation best practices by application to ensure consistently successful customer outcomes.
• Align with Product & Engineering to shape application direction, build application knowledge, and share field results from Beta implementations to improve application capabilities.
• Create and contribute reusable assets, such as templates, tools, and reference architectures, to empower the entire services ecosystem.
• Support instructional design and product learning content to scale application knowledge and implementation best practices.
• Contribute your knowledge, best practices, and associated assets to the Anaplan Community.

Qualifications

• A successful track record as a Senior or Principal-level Architect, with at least 4 years of experience designing and implementing complex EPM solutions like Anaplan.
• Deep passion for and expertise in solution design, creating delivery best practices, and mentoring team members.
• A strong background in enterprise software, professional services, and multi-dimensional modeling (Anaplan platform expertise is strongly preferred).
• Experience with Agile or other modern software development methodologies.
• Ability to scope complex client engagements and guide teams through the process.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and client leadership skills with executive-level communication experience.
• Travel (up to 25-50%) may be expected globally to support strategic implementations.