Anaplan Architect

Job Descritpion of Anaplan Architect

8+ Years Relevant Experience

For this role, we welcome applications from experienced architects with Anaplan knowledge, but also from consultants and technical professionals or others with strong Anaplan background who wish to move to an architecture role.

What You’ll Be Doing - Responsibilities

• Create Transformative designs that incorporate the current and new tools in the finance environment.
• Identify the impacted business areas and support the business change and the integrations that drive successful implementations.
• Understand the complete supply chain landscape and be able to assess technical impacts with any changes, especially where Anaplan/SAP is used.
• Work across all of BTs Line of Businesses and product lines to create integrated, consolidated platforms.
• Work with Solutions Architects, Platform and Component designers to ensure the solutions developed will drive value through return on investment and simplified process and integrations for future growth.
• Be able to work using Agile methodologies and support the adoption of Agile.
• Documentation of processes and organize training sessions as needed.
• Work with various stakeholders independently and be able to lend a helping hand to principal solution architect for supply chain.
• Recommend sensible phasing of complex technical work.
• Identify opportunities for reuse and simplification within the technology stack.

What You’ll Be Doing - Accountabilities

• Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice within a project, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• Delivers resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers.
• Creates and implements technical solutions for a domain or cross domains / portfolios of work within a specific technology area autonomously, understanding how solutions impact systems internally and/or externally and assessing impact of change.
• Designs solutions that are scalable, adaptable & cost-effective in line with business needs and manage the integration of the design.
• Provides technical expertise to inform contract and commercial management.
• Delivers and designs components of end-to-end technical solutions based on specific requirement using standard approaches in line with the wider technical strategy or roadmap.
• Delivers and designs components of end-to-end technical solutions based on specific requirement using standard approaches in line with the wider technical strategy or roadmap.
• Provides in-life support for issues related to their specific solution and root cause analysis for their own designs.

You Should Apply If You

• You feel at home communicating with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• You are recognized by colleagues as creative, collaborative and thought-provoking.
• You can investigate business problems and identify the root cause behind them, considering both business-side and technology-side factors.
• You are a strategic thinker and have ideas about how to turn bits of technology into reusable products.
• You have worked on the architecture of customer-facing systems, including their front end, application back end and data layer.
• You like problem-solving, simplifying and reorganizing.
• You have contributed to architecture plans and technology road maps with multiple phases.
• You have presented options assessments that convinced your colleagues they should support your recommended way forward.

Experience You Would Be Expected to Have

• Creating E2E designs in complex environments with demanding stakeholders.
• Anaplan knowledge and experience is must. Certification is preferred.
• SAP knowledge would be a plus.
• Minimum 5–8 years of experience as a functional consultant and designer.
• Knowledge of group finance FP&A is required.
• Strong knowledge of Anaplan integration with external systems or SAP systems is required.
• Defining Secure and resilient integrations with business-critical data.
• Working within an architectural and security framework – in BT these are ACF and SACS processes.
• To suit the needs of a customer, colleague, or client; moved outside.

Required Skills for Anaplan Architect Job

Anaplan

Anaplan Certified

SAP