Strategic Planning and Consultation:
- Serve as the primary Appian strategy advisor to business and IT leadership.
- Assess business requirements and translate them into effective Appian solutions.
- Lead architectural discussions, influencing decisions regarding Appian implementations.
- Evangelize the usage of reusable frameworks and artifacts, create knowledge/certification artifacts and evaluation criteria guide.
Design and Implementation:
- Design scalable and sustainable Appian architectures, including integration with other enterprise systems.
- Oversee the development and customization of Appian applications using Appian designer and other development tools.
- Experience of performance compliant design, sustainable and solution architecture.
- Leverage modern technologies such as cloud capabilities from various platforms to build efficient solutions.
- Implement features using native Appian's out-of-the-box capabilities and plugins, third-party components.
Governance and Best Practices:
- Develop and enforce Appian best practices and governance frameworks.
- Ensure solutions are built for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Manage the Appian platform upgrade process, ensuring compatibility and minimal disruption.
Collaboration and Leadership:
- Lead cross-functional teams in the design, development, and deployment of Appian solutions.
- Facilitate collaboration between stakeholders, developers, and IT operations teams.
- Mentor and develop team members, enhancing their Appian capabilities.
Continuous Improvement:
- Stay abreast of Appian product updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies.
- Recommend and implement improvements to existing Appian solutions.
- Drive innovation by exploring new Appian modules and capabilities like Appian AI (Email Classification, Document Classification and Extraction, Prompt Builder), GenAI Capabilities via Plugins.
Skills and Qualifications:
Technical Expertise:
- Extensive experience with Appian's core platform and development tools.
- Proficiency in integration technologies (REST, SOAP, JWT).
- Knowledge on Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure services and integrations is an added advantage.
- Proven experience with key technologies relevant to the Appian integration solution including: SSO, SAML, SSL, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, REST etc.
- Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Security and Architecture, middleware and discovery technologies, database design schemas and data modeling.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Architectural Acumen:
- Strong ability to design scalable, high-performing Appian architectures.
- Experience with Appian application customization and configuration.
Experience & Educational Background:
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Required certifications: Appian Senior or Lead Developer Certification.
- At least 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, and architecting via Appian platform. Must have played architect role in end-to-end execution of 34 Appian projects.
- Exposure to scalable design patterns using Java, J2EE, Microservices-based architecture.
Other Preferred Skills:
- Previous leadership role in an IT-focused consulting services company
- Project Management experience
- Strong understanding of User Experience (UX) concepts as it relates to applications
- Certified in agile framework and associated scrum methodology
- Low Code / No Code Development experience in other technologies like Mendix, OutSystems, etc.
