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Role Type: Hands‑On Technical Lead
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Remote
Job Summary
The Anaplan Senior Lead Architect is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and governing scalable Anaplan solutions across enterprise planning use cases. This role combines deep platform expertise with architectural ownership, solution design, and team leadership. The ideal candidate brings strong Anaplan modeling skills, architecture best practices, integration experience, and the ability to translate complex business requirements into high‑performing, sustainable Anaplan ecosystems.
Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Solution Design- Own end‑to‑end Anaplan solution architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and long‑term maintainability.
- Design multi‑model, multi‑workspace architectures aligned with enterprise planning standards.
- Define and enforce modeling best practices, including ALM, data hubs, spoke models, and calculation optimization.
- Lead design reviews and architectural decision‑making across Anaplan implementations.
- Build and optimize complex Anaplan models, modules, lists, actions, and UX pages.
- Implement advanced calculation logic, sparsity management, and performance tuning.
- Develop reusable components, frameworks, and modeling standards.
- Actively contribute to solution delivery while mentoring other developers.
- Design and oversee Anaplan integrations with upstream/downstream systems (ERP, HRIS, CRM, data warehouses).
- Utilize Anaplan Connect, APIs, middleware (Boomi, MuleSoft, Informatica, etc.), and cloud data platforms.
- Ensure robust data governance, validation, reconciliation, and error handling.
- Serve as technical lead for Anaplan project teams, guiding developers and analysts.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and solution leads to align technical design with business outcomes.
- Establish and maintain Anaplan Center of Excellence (CoE) standards and documentation.
- Support release management, environment strategy, and deployment best practices.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and solution roadmaps.
- Provide expert guidance to senior stakeholders on Anaplan capabilities, limitations, and best practices.
- Support UAT, production cutovers, and post‑deployment optimization.
- 8+ years of hands‑on experience with Anaplan modeling and architecture.
- Proven experience as a Lead Architect or Technical Lead on enterprise Anaplan implementations.
- Deep expertise in:
- Model design patterns (Data Hub, Spoke models)
- ALM, model performance tuning, and scalability
- UX design and dashboard optimization
- Strong understanding of enterprise planning domains, such as:
- Financial Planning (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
- Workforce Planning
- Sales / Revenue Planning
- CapEx or Supply Chain Planning
- Experience with system integrations and data pipelines.
- Ability to mentor teams and lead technical decision‑making.
- Anaplan Solution Architect Certification (or equivalent advanced certifications).
- Experience establishing or operating an Anaplan Center of Excellence.
- Background in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern data architectures.
- Experience in Agile / SAFe delivery environments.
- Consulting or large‑scale enterprise transformation experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$106,605.00 - $213,210.00
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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
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: 04/01/2026Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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CVS Health Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
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