Principal Software Engineer

Role Description

The Principal Appian Developer will serve as a design authority and capability multiplier for our Appian platform. This role is responsible not only for delivering high-complexity solutions, but for defining standards, enabling teams, and reducing dependency on external partners. This is not a senior “feature developer” role. Success in this position is measured by how effectively the incumbent scales Appian capability across teams, not by how much work they personally complete.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a design authority for Appian solutions, guiding architecture and design decisions across applications.
• Leads delivery of high-complexity Appian solutions, including case management, record-centric applications, integrations, and reporting.
• Defines, evolves, and enforces Appian standards and patterns (data, records, interfaces, processes, reporting, performance).
• Enable and mentor other Appian developers through reviews, guidance, and structured knowledge sharing.
• Reduces reliance on external vendors by building internal Appian self-sufficiency.
• Ensures solutions adhere to platform guardrails, performance best practices, and security requirements.
• Partners with product, business, and platform teams to align Appian solutions to business outcomes.
• Influences Appian DevOps, deployment, and performance monitoring practices in collaboration with shared teams.

Shared / Platform Responsibilities

• Provide leadership input into packaging and promotion readiness.
• CI/CD and automated testing strategy.
• Performance monitoring and tuning practices.
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security teams to ensure Appian solutions scale safely and reliably.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university; plus six to eight years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Prefer experience in Healthcare, PBM and/or ABM, workers’ compensation and/or insurance industry.
• Requires a deep understanding of the application of Agile development methodology.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 5+ years Appian development (end-to-end delivery in Appian Designer).
• Designing/building Appian SAIL interfaces (complex forms, grids, UX patterns, validation, responsive layouts).
• BPM / workflow (Process Models, subprocess patterns, process variables, timers, escalations, SLAs, exception handling).
• Data: Record Types, data modeling, Record views/related actions, data sync patterns, query optimization.
• Integrations: Integration Objects, Connected Systems, Web APIs (REST/SOAP), authentication patterns (OAuth2/JWT/basic), error handling/retries.
• Strong understanding of SQL (selects, inserts/updates, joins, stored procedures/functions) and relational data modeling.
• Security design: groups/roles, object security, record-level security, least-privilege patterns, environment separation.
• Performance & scalability: query tuning, paging, async patterns, expression optimization, interface performance troubleshooting.
• Deployment & SDLC: packaging, environment promotion, versioning strategies, release management, automated testing approach.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: solution architecture, standards/governance, code reviews, mentoring, and leading delivery teams.

Preferred Knowledge

• Appian certification(s) (Associate / Lead / Senior / specific specialty as applicable).
• Appian RPA and/or Process Mining.
• Appian plugin development/extensions (e.g., Connected Systems, component plugins) and familiarity with Java for extensions.
• Enterprise integration patterns (queues/events, middleware, iPaaS), and API lifecycle practices (versioning, contracts, observability).
• CI/CD for Appian (automated deployments, pipeline integration, environment config management).
• Testing tooling/strategy for Appian (automated regression approach, interface test patterns, API testing).
• Authentication/SSO (SAML, OIDC) and enterprise security controls.
• Experience with MS SQL Server.
• Cloud infrastructure exposure (Appian Cloud operations concepts, networking basics, monitoring).
• Familiarity with Agile delivery and working with product owners/BA teams on process discovery and iterative delivery.
• UI familiarity (helpful, not required): HTML/CSS, Bootstrap-style layout thinking, accessibility/usability practices.

Agile Competency Requirements

• Requires an understanding of the application of Agile development methodology.
• Must be comfortable with change, close collaboration, and have conflict resolution skills.
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn Agile / DevOps values.
• Takes initiative and are passionate about what they do.

Role-Based Competencies

• Shows Drive & Initiative.
• Collaboration & Teamwork.
• Delivers Quality Results Timely.
• Communicates Effectively.
• Job Knowledge & Skills.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Duties are performed primarily in a home office setting utilizing computer equipment.
• Travel to attend meetings and visit locations throughout the country may be required.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, geographical cost of labor, etc.
• In addition to base pay, Healthesystems offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, wellness resources, recognition programs, 401k contribution, and PTO & Holiday pay (all subject to eligibility requirements).
• Applicable statutory benefits also provided, including the Colorado HFWA.
• Anticipated Starting Pay Range: $119,000 - $163,600 USD.
• To facilitate working from home, candidates must provide their own reliable, high-speed internet access with sufficient bandwidth to execute all job functions. Company laptop will be provided - (except for temporary internship roles).