Senior Application Engineer, Adaptive (workday)

Senior Application Engineer, Adaptive (Workday)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Role Description:

We are looking for a highly technical Senior Engineer with Adaptive Planning experience to join our team based in San Francisco! The Engineer will play a key role in leading the design, implementation, and optimization of our Adaptive tool. You will own the end-to-end technical design for all major initiatives, guide the resolution of high-priority issues, and be hands on with making necessary changes/updates in the systems. We are seeking a strategic, analytical, and problem solver to lead designing our Adaptive transformation, translating business needs into actionable insights and launching scalable, sustainable solutions. This role requires deep expertise in financial planning and analysis, Adaptive Planning architecture, and data modeling.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the design of complex, scalable Adaptive Planning solutions, ensuring data integrity and seamless information flow.
• Lead the technical solutioning for all major FP&A initiatives, from initial discovery and design through to implementation and post-production support.
• Take ownership of and provide hands-on, on-site support for urgent and business-critical production issues, ensuring swift resolution and minimal business disruption. Lead a junior engineer with day-to-day operations and issue resolution.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and model architecture, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy. Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements and tool optimization for the FP&A and other business teams.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders, troubleshooting process and technical issues in a timely manner, with a focus on upholding best practices.

What We're Looking For:

• Extensive Adaptive experience, including hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining Adaptive Planning models with a proven portfolio of successfully architected and delivered large-scale, high-impact Adaptive Planning projects.
• Deep expertise in data modeling, system integration, and performance optimization within a sophisticated enterprise environment.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability with the ability to operate at a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to break down complex requirements and explain complex technical designs and trade-offs to diverse audiences.
• A strong desire to learn and be curious with new technologies, including opportunities with AI.

You Might Also Have:

• Adaptive Planning Certification
• Background/experience in Financial Planning and Analysis
• Knowledge of LLM and proven experience with implementation of AI features in finance systems/processes

Additional Information:

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity:

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors. Gross pay salary $170,000—$210,000 USD