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Job Title: Anaplan Senior Developer Lead (Certified Solution Architect)
Level: Senior / Lead
Experience: 8+ years in Anaplan / Enterprise Planning / FP&A systems
Location: (Insert: Remote)
Department: Finance / FP&A / Corporate Planning / Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Reports To: (Insert: Director of FP&A Systems / EPM Manager / Finance Technology Lead)
Role Summary
We are seeking an Anaplan Senior Developer Lead with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade planning solutions. The ideal candidate holds an Anaplan Architect certification and has deep domain expertise across Workforce Planning, Capex Planning, P&L, and Balance Sheet models. This role blends hands-on model building with technical leadership, including solution architecture, performance optimization, governance, mentoring developers, and partnering with Finance stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable Anaplan solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Delivery
- Own end-to-end design and delivery of Anaplan solutions across Workforce, Capex, P&L, and Balance Sheet planning domains.
- Lead model architecture decisions: modularization, data hub strategy, spoke models, integration patterns, and model lifecycle management.
- Translate complex business requirements into robust Anaplan user stories, model designs, and implementation roadmaps.
- Drive design reviews, establish best practices, and ensure solutions align to Anaplan platform standards and internal governance.
Hands-On Model Development (Lead-Level)
- Build and maintain Anaplan models: modules, lists, hierarchies, line items, versions, time ranges, and calculation logic.
- Implement advanced modeling techniques:
- Dimensionality optimization, formula efficiency, and performance tuning
- Model refactoring and sparsity reduction
- UX design: pages, worksheets, forms, actions, and navigation
- Create scalable and auditable planning workflows for:
- Workforce: headcount, hiring plans, merit/bonus, attrition, benefits, allocations
- Capex: project-based forecasting, depreciation schedules, funding/approvals, roll-forwards
- P&L: revenue, COGS, opex (cost centers), allocations, scenario planning
- Balance Sheet: drivers, working capital, accruals, roll-forwards, cash impacts
Integration, Data & Automation
- Design and deliver integrations using Anaplan Connect, CloudWorks, APIs, and ETL tools (e.g., Informatica, Boomi, MuleSoft, ADF, SnapLogic—depending on environment).
- Establish data pipelines with source systems such as ERP (SAP/Oracle), HRIS (Workday), GL, CRM, and data warehouses.
- Implement robust data validation, reconciliation, and error handling for financial accuracy and audit readiness.
Leadership, Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Serve as technical lead for Anaplan development team: code reviews, mentoring, and quality standards.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with FP&A, Accounting, HR, IT, and Data teams to align on planning processes and governance.
- Own platform governance: model standards, naming conventions, release management, documentation, and security design.
- Support user adoption: training, enablement, and continuous improvement backlog management.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of hands-on experience delivering Anaplan implementations in enterprise environments.
- Anaplan Architect Certification (Solution Architect strongly preferred; equivalent architect-level credential accepted).
- Proven experience building solutions across:
- Workforce Planning
- Capex Planning
- P&L Planning
- Balance Sheet Planning
- Strong command of Anaplan modeling best practices: DISCO, model performance optimization, and scalable architecture.
- Extensive experience with UX design, access control, actions/processes, and workflow enablement.
- Strong integration experience using APIs / Anaplan Connect / CloudWorks / ETL.
- Ability to lead technical discussions, influence stakeholders, and guide decisions through tradeoffs (performance vs flexibility, usability vs complexity).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience implementing connected planning across Finance + HR + Operations (multi-model ecosystems).
- Exposure to ALM, CI/CD practices for Anaplan, and structured release management.
- Knowledge of financial reporting concepts (GAAP/IFRS helpful), chart of accounts, cost center hierarchies.
- Experience with adjacent EPM tools or reporting layers (Power BI, Tableau, Adaptive, Hyperion, SAP BPC, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to define operating procedures for model governance, security, and audit readiness.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Advanced Anaplan model-building, architecture, and performance tuning
- Financial planning domain strength (Workforce, Capex, P&L, Balance Sheet)
- Integration architecture and data management
- Stakeholder communication and requirements translation
- Technical leadership, mentoring, and delivery management
- Strong documentation discipline and process orientatio
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40
Time Type
Full time
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$92,700.00 - $185,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/01/2026
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