Principal Appian Developer

The Work:

Support Appian modernization, corporate growth, and on-program implementation initiatives, be responsible for but not limited to architecting, designing, configuring, developing, and troubleshooting, and implementing baseline and custom applications on the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Engages the client organization, manages key stakeholders, and fosters relationships to develop a deep and thorough understanding of the enterprise

• Creates a vision, strategy, and produces roadmaps to lead Appian adoption and modernization efforts by applying a proven track record of assessments, target technology and IT landscape specifications, technical asset configuration and multi-phased migration deliveries

• Implements and manages the modernization journey while ensuring adherence to organizational compliance, best practices, and industry standards

• Serves as the primary technological point of contact, responsible for the overarching technical oversight, architecture, and construction efforts

• Develops effective governance, leads technical resources, mitigates risk, monitors quality, security, etc., and ensures success in the execution of these areas

• Participates in, and leads technology evaluations, proofs of concept, client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting and client buy-in

• Coordinates and collaborates on developing requirements and mission outcomes with executive leadership, business stakeholders, various technical teams, contractors, etc.

• Serves as the technical strategy champion, resolving program issues, answering questions, and prescribing adoption of proposed solutions for leadership, staff, and contractors

• Authors required documentation, briefings, SLAs, and technical standards for the architectural runway

• Works closely, leads and coordinates with other architects and additional members of the technical leadership and other program teams

• Engages diverse organizations, industry partners and clients during business acquisition phases and for all capture activities

• Produces technical solutions with detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.

• Provides solution architecture, documents design, codes, develops program logic for new applications, analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications and ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented.

• Analyzes requirements, maintains, tests, and integrates plug-ins and custom application components.

• Produces technical solutions with a detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.

• Participates in, and leads formal technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and other R&D activity, providing client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting, making recommendations, and facilitating client buy-in

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of Appian experience including SAIL scripting, process modeling, platform configuration, design, and deployment

• 7+ years of Custom application development on the Appian platform including Custom UI Pages

• 5+ years of technology leadership experience with participation in major modernization and integration projects while designing and architecting large scale applications

• 3+ years of End-to-end lifecycle experience in re-platforming legacy applications onto the Appian platform

• 3+ years of experience creating integrations between Appian and other systems using SOAP, REST, and JSON as well as JDBC and file imports

• 3+ years of experience with architecting secure cloud-based hosting solutions for federal customers using Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and/or Microsoft Azure. Leadership experience designing, architecting or delivering one or more enterprise-level cloud environments (e.g. C2S, JWICS, GovCloud, etc.)

• 3+ years of experience serving as an architect on programs leveraging the Appian platform

• 3+ years’ experience creating technical solutions for proposal

• 2+ years’ experience with designing and implementing DevSecOps pipelines and Infrastructure Automation frameworks, using toolsets like Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Cucumber, JMeter, and FitNesse.

• Green Card Holder or US Citizenship required by the federal government for this position.

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing Appian Smart Service, Component, or Connected System plug-ins is a strong plus

• Possess Appian Senior Developer or Appian Lead Developer certification

• Appian RPA Pro/RPA + IDP Pro certification is a plus

• Experience implementing systems using the Agile/Scrum methodology

• Administration of an Appian instance including the management of users, groups, and roles, CMS Development, ACLs, business rules, workflows, actions, and policies

• Orchestration and Discovery experience is a plus

• Excellent communication skills