Shield AI is seeking a Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect to set technical direction and lead connected planning for Corporate FP&A. In our lean team, you will be both architect and hands-on builder, independently guiding complex design decisions while coaching FP&A colleagues toward greater self-sufficiency. You will help advance an autonomous, continuously updated forecast grounded in business drivers, robust data, and validated machine-learning inputs, freeing Finance partners to advise the business and giving leaders timely projections.
What you'll do:
- Architect and build connected models for financial statements, workforce, allocations, annual planning, and long-range scenarios.
- Shape the planning architecture and roadmap with Finance leaders, balancing business value, scalability, and delivery capacity.
- Establish design standards and resolve cross-model dependencies to keep planning solutions intuitive, performant, and maintainable.
- Coach FP&A users and builders to own more of their analysis, scenarios, and model development.
- Integrate trusted enterprise data and predictive outputs into Anaplan, partnering with data and analytics engineers.
- Advance continuously refreshed, driver-based forecasting with clear reconciliation, review, and override controls.
- Provide technical leadership to builders and implementation partners, owning solution quality, acceptance, and knowledge transfer.
- Required qualifications:
- 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.
Skills Required
- Extensive hands-on Anaplan experience architecting and delivering complex connected-planning solutions
- Deep understanding of Corporate FP&A and ability to translate Finance priorities into architectural decisions
- Ability to independently lead complex delivery and build solutions 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
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Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
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What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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