Appian Developer

Appian Bpm Developer

Location: Must be onsite in McLean on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Position Overview

If you are a confident and self-motivated individual with a willingness to learn and adapt in a team environment, we are your next destination employer! Apply to join us to lead development, maintenance, and support for Appian BPM applications. In this role, you will be responsible for overall project delivery and operations. You will provide technical leadership and direction to a team of developers, while being very hands on at the same time.

Your work falls into three primary categories:

Project Delivery and Operations

- Design, develop, modify, integrate, test, deploy and support enterprise-level Appian based BPM applications

- Translate business process software requirement specifications into Appian process model prototypes and solutions.

- Deliver projects in either Agile or Waterfall software development methodologies, as project dictates

- Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as DB2, Sybase, LDAP/TAM, Active Directory and other internal systems in the enterprise.

- Design and implement complex integrations with downstream and upstream applications

- Design and implement custom plugins using Java framework

- Have knowledge on Appian Infrastructure

- Develop and use library of reusable Appian components that can be leveraged in the enterprise.

- Participate in the day-to-day activities of the Appian BPM and Java based plug-ins development.

Technical Leadership

- Support planning activities, such as impact assessments, level of effort analysis and developer task assignments.

- Conduct and participate in detailed design reviews and validate that the design follows the approved architecture.

- Conduct regular code reviews to ensure best practices are being followed

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.

- Deliver knowledge transfer sessions to ramp up new development team members.

Production Support

- Participate in on-call production support rotation

- Jump into troubleshooting sessions if junior developers are unable to resolve production issues, and drive issue to resolution.

- Partner with IT Shared Services partners to resolve production issues.

Qualifications *

5+ years experience in Information Technology.

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent working experience.

3+ years of hands-on experience in design, implementation, and production support of Appian BPM applications. Work experience must be with Appian version 19.x or higher.

Have working knowledge of Appian architecture.

Have Appain cloud experience.

Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to analyze system functionality with customer and resolve production issues.

Experience in tuning the system for performance improvements and performance related system design.

Thorough understanding of relational databases, SQL, XML and web services (SOAP/REST)

Experience applying Object Oriented Analysis and Design principles.

Experience in building custom plugins using Appian Custom plugin framework

Knowledge of business process modeling and optimization techniques, including orchestration of modeled process

Sound exposure to Appian Infrastructure infrastructure, network and enterprise scale environments

Practical experience designing and building enterprise and/or distributed systems.

Experience with systems and software architecture.

Key to success in this role

Willingness to learn and work in a team environment

Technical leadership and effective communication

Change leadership

Ability to work across silos

Deep curiosity to learn about new trends and topics

Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships

Ability to stay calm and poised in pressure situations

Top 3 Personal Competencies to possess

Customer Focus - Personally engage with customers (clients) to learn and deliver on their needs

Partnership - Align myself and my team with what is right for the company

Drive for Execution - Focus on results rather than the appearance of results (i.e., be good, not just look good); be an impact junkie