Principal Workday Engineer

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.

Here at Appian, we're passionate about technology. We love making it, and we love using it. Joining Appian's Business Technology department will provide you with the opportunity to learn in an environment that values cross-functional collaboration and is committed to personal and professional growth. We want to revolutionize the way people work, and in doing so, we develop the Appian platform to be simple so our customers can thrive.


As a Principal Workday Engineer, you will be embedded on a small team of technical staff, interact with key business stakeholders, and own the prioritized product backlog to ensure your team delivers high-quality software with each and every iteration. This position will be specifically focused on Corporate Systems, including Workday and Greenhouse. You will drive the priority, design and development of new applications or features for existing applications.

This role is based at our headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

In this role, you will:

• Prioritize, define, and ensure success of solution product features for various users at the roadmap/release level, and functionalities within each feature at the sprint level (two-week sprints).
• Contribute to the product roadmap to communicate priorities and key deliverables, collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy.
• Share ideas and receive feedback on new features through presentations to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clear communication.
• Define how those features will work and look through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing.
• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with the Scrum team.
• Write specifications for stakeholders to review and provide feedback on.
• Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories, or Tasks in Jira with defined Acceptance Criteria at a level of detail that the development team can understand and implement.
• Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert from a business perspective on the applications owned, cultivating a deep understanding of your users and the applications you support.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and translate their needs into a clear product vision and strategy.
• Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approve completed work before it goes live. Coordinate the rollout plan and user enablement to ensure new features are successfully adopted.
• Identify and recommend new features that will have a meaningful impact on the business.

Basic Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience, preferably in the Product Owner role in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience with Workday and Greenhouse
• Familiarity with Jira & Confluence
• Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things
• Ability to draw clarity out of complex and ever-changing environments; comfortable working through ambiguity
• Strong communicator and facilitator
• Ability to work to understand the interests of a variety of stakeholders to reach workable solutions
• Ownership mentality. Possess the character to act with integrity for the best interests of the entire organization

Education:

• Bachelor's degree. Preferred concentration in technical or business areas.

Tools and Resources

• Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.
• Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.
• Community: We'll immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led affinity groups. These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social, educational, and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.

Benefits

Appian offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future. Benefits may include health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), a retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits and more. Benefits vary by country-please ask your Talent Acquisition contact for details specific to the location you are applying to.

About Appian

Appian provides process automation technology. We automate complex processes in large enterprises and governments. Our platform is known for its unique reliability and scale. We've been automating processes for 25 years and understand enterprise operations like no one else. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN]

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