Principal Solution Architect – Professional Services (EMEA)

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision‑making through our AI‑infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Our customers rank among the Fortune 50, including Coca‑Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer.

Your Impact

• Influence major business transformations across finance, supply chain and sales performance domains.
• Deliver solutions on top of Anaplan’s unique Hyperblock engine, enabling real‑time data and predictive modelling at scale.
• Engage directly with senior client stakeholders and internal Anaplan teams to shape solution strategy and roadmap execution.
• Work at the forefront of Anaplan’s most strategic customer engagements.

Your Role

• Lead the design and delivery of complex connected planning solutions.
• Translate business problems, models and spreadsheets into scalable Anaplan solutions.
• Work closely with customer teams to optimise and future‑prove business processes.
• Communicate regularly with clients and stakeholders, providing clear updates and actionable feedback.
• Act as the architectural SME across large‑scale deployments and high‑value projects.
• Support pre‑sales activity through solution design, estimation and customer presentations.
• Coach, mentor and support the growth of other consultants and solution architects across the business.
• Produce detailed and comprehensive model documentation.
• Support data integration and migration activities.

Your Qualifications

• Significant experience implementing Enterprise Performance Management solutions (e.g. Anaplan, SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Workday Adaptive).
• Consulting experience with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders through transformation journeys toward tangible benefits.
• Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology – requirements gathering, design, build/test and deploy (Agile methodology preferred).
• Proven track record to lead and implement responsibilities simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of data integration (inbound and outbound).
• Passion for business analytics, modelling and planning.
• Entrepreneurial approach, able to work with ambiguity.
• Results‑oriented, motivated, self‑starter.
• Ability to organise and manage concurrent demands and coordinate and prioritise multiple requests.
• Desire to work with a truly dynamic and exciting team, with a “roll‑up your sleeves” approach.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader.

We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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