Appian Developer

BayNova has an exciting opportunity for an Appian Developer to join our team in support of an important federal government client, in a fully remote / work from home role.

You will be supporting a fast moving enterprise application, working closely with development, operations, security, and the customer to provide solutions for our client. You will work with the Optimization and Support team to identify and resolve defects, address technical debt, and optimize the application. Work will include investigating solutions to problems and developing and modifying existing process flows to help improve the application to better meet the needs of the user community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collect tactical knowledge about bottlenecks or critical needs. Devise and implement rapid solutions to address those needs.

• Focus on business logic and process flows, working on the design and development of business logic, process models/flows, and UI screens to implement in a BPM (Business Process Management) based system.

• Work closely with Business Analysts to investigate customers’ requirements, prototype business solutions, and validate user story acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate closely with team members to ensure proper fixes, unit testing and configuration management.

• Support operational patch build processes.

• Develop Structured Query Language (SQL), update data models and implement common database best practices (indexes, triggers, and data structure).

• Manage daily work in the Atlassian suite of applications (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo).

• Coordinate with DevOps team members to ensure timely and reliable releases to customer.

• Ensure software maintains data integrity, security, and best practice standards.

• Prepares and maintains SDLC application documentation as needed.

• This role requires the selected candidate to maintain DoD 8570 IAT II certification. Candidate must have one of the following certifications: (CCNA Security, CySA+ GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND or SSCP) at the time of hire or will need to obtain within 6 months of start date. The applicable certification must be maintained throughout performance of the contract. Those selected candidate(s) who are not currently DoD 8570 IAT Level II compliant (i.e., that do not have one of the applicable certifications) will be provided Security+ CE training by the Company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Appian software development experience

• Current Appian credentials as Designer or Developer

• Experience in BPM (Appian, JBoss BPMS, Activiti, Oracle or IBM BPM, Pega, etc.).

• Experience with Splunk

• Knowledge of Appian software design, web development and design languages.

• Understanding and hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies.

• Experience providing support for production.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proficient working in source control with GIT and awareness of GIT branching strategies

• Familiar with Oracle

• Have or are able to obtain after hired a CSSLP or an equivalent certification

• Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust

• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card Holder

• Must pass a background investigation

The ideal candidate will have:

• Understanding of Docker/Openshift/Kubernetes or other containerization platforms

• Customer service oriented.

• Adaptable, dependable and independent.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Self-starter with strong self-management skills.

• Effectively prioritizes work and has well-honed problem-solving skills. 

• Excellent written and oral communication.

• Highly adaptable to rapidly changing environments and situations.

• Using one or more Appian add-on tools, such as Expression Unit Tests, Deployment Automation Manager, FitNesse test creation, SAIL UI and Smart Services. Appian 7.x/20.x version design, implementation and ability to translate software requirements specifications into Appian applications and prototype.