COMPLETE Anaplan Developer, RACE - Chicago

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, educational institutions and governments depend on AWS for secure cloud services and solutions.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) is seeking an Anaplan Developer to assist with the generation, standardization, and automation of forecasting models, planning processes, and reporting. The role is part of a Business Insights team charged with identifying and explaining business trends and impact. Candidates should have advanced Anaplan skills and experience building models that can scale to hundreds and thousands of users.

*This is a hybrid role. Applicants must be located near any of the following Amazon office locations:
Washington DC Metro, Chicago IL, Atlanta GA, New York NY, Boston MA, Nashville TN, Pittsburgh PA, Detroit MI, Minneapolis MN, or Dallas/Austin/Houston TX

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities
• Maintain an existing, newly developed Anaplan forecast model currently being used by thousands of users today. Maintenance defined as ensuring data is updated and accurate, auditing model calculations and scalability, and providing to support to customers
• Develop a deep understanding of the business and be able to identify and quantify levers that impact the business
• Identify forecasting feature gaps and/or planning process inefficiencies within the sales organization, gather data and user requirements, and translate those needs into model enhancements and/or new Anaplan model implementations with timelines and delivery dates
• Develop both back-end and front-end features in Anaplan following best practices (PLANS methodology)
• Understand existing databases and warehouse structures in order best determine how to consolidate, aggregate, and utilize data in an efficient and scalable way
• Work with data engineering team to push data from Anaplan into existing data warehouses and reporting environments
• Develop user guides, training materials, and documentation for the model to assist end users

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 2+ years of relevant experience as an Anaplan model developer
• At least 4+ years of relevant experience as a business analyst, gathering data requirements, developing metrics and reports, using data insights to support business cases, planning, and decisions
• At least 1+ end-to-end Anaplan system implementation (requirements gathering, design, build/test, deploy, support)
• L1, L2, and L3 Anaplan Model Building Certified
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics or other business/analytical disciplines or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master Anaplanner or Anaplan Solutions Architect Certification
• Experience in BI design and development, UI/UX best practices
• Experience using AWS technologies such as Redshift, GLUE, and S3
• Experience with Tableau or other BI tools and developing dashboards
• Experience writing and debugging SQL queries (ETL, Data Modeling, Data Mining, etc.) with large-scale, complex data sets in a business setting
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity


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