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Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is seeking a Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect to lead connected planning for Corporate FP&A. You will serve as both architect and hands-on builder, independently guiding complex design decisions while coaching FP&A colleagues toward greater self-sufficiency.
In this role, you will architect and build connected models for financial statements, workforce, allocations, annual planning, and long-range scenarios. You will shape the planning architecture and roadmap with Finance leaders, balancing business value, scalability, and delivery capacity. You will establish design standards and resolve cross-model dependencies to keep planning solutions intuitive, performant, and maintainable.
Key responsibilities include coaching FP&A users and builders to own more of their analysis, scenarios, and model development; integrating trusted enterprise data and predictive outputs into Anaplan in partnership with data and analytics engineers; and advancing continuously refreshed, driver-based forecasting with clear reconciliation, review, and override controls. You will provide technical leadership to builders and implementation partners, owning solution quality, acceptance, and knowledge transfer.
Shield AI's mission is protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The company's products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide.
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
