# Senior Anaplan Solution Architect

**Company:** [Lyft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lyft)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $165k – $206k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Anaplan, Anaplan Solution Architect, Polaris, Ifp, Financial Consolidation App, Disco Framework, Alm, FP&A, Oracle Erp, Workday, Redshift, Trino, Agile
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Senior Anaplan Solution Architect responsible for architecture, design, and performance of complex financial planning models in Lyft's Finance Technology Anaplan CoE. Requires 8+ years experience, mandatory Anaplan Solution Architect certification, deep FP&A knowledge, and hands-on model building expertise.

## Job Description

## Architecture & Technical Ownership
- Hold subject matter expertise and a comprehensive understanding of the Anaplan platform, driving architectural design for all models and integrations within scope, including Polaris-based models, IFP, and the Financial Consolidation App.
- Independently identify problems and goals, developing and executing solutions for complex, large-scale Anaplan rebuilds and enhancement initiatives.
- Define and evolve model architecture standards, performance tuning practices, and scalability patterns, ensuring designs support business continuity and long-term resilience.
- Serve as the technical leader for large, complex model builds, driving them from concept through execution while collaborating cross-functionally to meet business and technical needs.
- Conduct architecture reviews and technical system audits, ensuring compliance with governance standards such as naming conventions, ALM practices, and the DISCO framework.
- Oversee cyclical FP&A operations — including month-end, forecasting, and model rollover activities — from a technical design and reliability perspective.
- Coordinate design, development, and testing activities for complex model changes, ensuring high-quality, well-documented outcomes.

## Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Act as a core technical partner for FP&A, Accounting, and other business stakeholders, ensuring Anaplan systems align with long-term planning objectives.
- Translate ambiguous or unstructured business problems into clearly defined technical requirements and detailed implementation plans.
- Foster strong relationships with Anaplan and adjacent system vendors, representing the best interests of the CoE and the broader organization.
- Identify actionable optimization and efficiency opportunities, contributing to the continuous improvement of Anaplan applications and processes.

## Mentorship & Technical Leadership
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to other Anaplan model builders, including FTE and contractor resources, raising the team's overall technical capability.
- Support the team's transition from a consultant-led model to an FTE-led internal capability by establishing and reinforcing internal best practices and standardization across builds.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to propose and implement solutions, breaking down silos and enhancing team efficiency.
- Uphold strict and consistent standards of process and model documentation across the team's work.

## Experience
- 8+ years of overall experience in financial systems or IT systems, including significant hands-on Anaplan model-building experience.
- Anaplan Solution Architect certification is mandatory; Master Anaplanner certification is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated expertise in complex Anaplan model architecture, performance tuning, and scalability.
- Deep understanding of FP&A concepts and processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Experience employing agile methodology in the development of software, systems interfaces, and application configurations.
- Proven ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives from idea to execution with minimal oversight.

## Skills and Attributes
- Strong communicator who can clearly articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical, business-side audiences.
- Proven ability to partner with finance stakeholders (FP&A analysts, treasury, tax, billing) to understand and prioritize business systems needs.
- Strategic, organized, and stakeholder-savvy, with the judgment to operate with significant autonomy in setting technical direction.
- Experience managing multiple parallel builds while maintaining architectural consistency.
- Strong relationship-building skills, fostering collaboration and trust across teams and departments.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to advanced Anaplan technology, specifically Anaplan Polaris, Co-Modeler, and Agent Studio.
- Background in accounting or finance (CPA is a plus).
- Experience contributing to a team's transition from reliance on external consultants toward robust internal ownership.
- Experience with upstream systems such as Oracle ERP/FCCS, Workday, Redshift, Trino, or similar platforms.

## Benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

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