Senior Platform Engineer - Anaplan

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Location: Newark, NJ Hybrid 3 days/week in office. Will consider potential virtual opportunities for those outside of our commutable range.

Your Team & Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer in Finance Management Transformation, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve Financial Forecasting in Anaplan. You will configure, code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to solid technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
• Configure and build applications ensuring that the solution follows latest practices and industry standards for Anaplan, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient design adhering to all applicable Prudential standards that stay aligned with platform vendor roadmap and direction
• Design the business logic and integration patterns with Prudential Ecosystem, using modern integration, data, and security patterns
• Write integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems  
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day  
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 2+ years of Anaplan model-building experience
• 3+ years supporting FP&A or Sales Finance functions with knowledge of end-to-end business processes
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization  
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to take a simple spreadsheet and build it out in Anaplan with minimal support
• Demonstrated experience with advanced Excel functions (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.) or other multidimensional modeling tools

• Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
o Professional Model Builder Certification
o Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
o Configuration and administration of core capabilities, data model, integrations, security, access control
o Project/Product Management: Planning, Progress Monitoring and Status Reporting, including visualization of works; Scaling Agile – Organizing, synchronizing multiple teams setup Estimations, ROI, project life cycle

Additional qualifications include:
o Effective Communication: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Ability to facilitate dialogue at the right level of det