Senior Appian Developer

Appian L3 Consultant

The position's essential duties include the following:

• Provide end-to-end design guidance, oversight, and problem management
• Provide oversight of requirements gathering and interpretation for all infrastructure impacts across the portfolio pipeline
• Provide oversight of the requirements process on key projects by clarifying requirements where and when necessary, ensure all teams understand the business reasons for the requirements
• Provide end-to-end design process guidance and oversight/provide guidance throughout the design process
• Guide teams through design challenges where and when necessary
• Provide oversight of design and implementation reviews, participate in, and lead as appropriate, design and implementation reviews during the lifecycle of a project for key business initiatives and core engineering projects before they go into production to ensure Operational Readiness
• Review the final target architecture and design
• Partner with architecture/development teams on business planning sessions
• Provide reviews of existing solutions including tracking/remediating issues and gaps for resiliency, risk and performance
• Provide technology guidance into strategic plans and business strategies
• Appian L3 certification mandatory
• Minimum 12 years of IT experience with at least 5-7 years delivering solutions using Appian.
• Experience assessing and leveraging both mainstream and emerging technology advancements (especially AI, analytics, and automation/robotics) with a strategic mindset to transform or optimize business designs.
• Expert level experience with Appian 16x/17x/18x/19x versions, Ability to write complex Appian SAIL Code. Not drag and drop
• Strong understanding of Appian Objects such as Records, Reports, Tasks, News, Sites, Actions, Expression Rules, Constants, Query Rules, Web API, Interface Rules, CDTs, and Process Models. Constants, Decisions, Integrations, Connected Systems, Data Stores, Groups, Feeds etc.

Experience:

• Have worked on two or more end-to-end Appian BPM implementation (Design/Develop/Deploy/Package)
• Experience in building frameworks and BPM concepts
• Sound Knowledge of Appian Process/Solution and Infrastructure Architecture (Infrastructure Architecture must include knowledge of Appian In-Memory KDB Engines, Sizing, Scaling Vertically/Horizontally)
• Sound Knowledge App Servers such as JBOSS, TOMCAT etc. and Web Servers such as Apache etc.
• Solid fundamentals in languages such as Java. Knowledge about OOP Concepts
• Strong understanding of various authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OKTA, API Key Based Authentication, LDAP, SAML, etc.
• Integration with Web Services (SOAP and REST both), ESBs such as JBoss Fuse, Business Rules Engine such as DROOLS
• Hands-On Experience in writing Appian Plugins (includes Smart Services, Function Plugins, and Servlet Plugins), Connected Systems and Component UI Plugins (Preferred)
• Experience with Embedded SAIL
• Experience with J2EE Design Patterns such as JSPs, Java Servlets, EJBs, JDBC, etc. Strong understanding of JMS Messaging Services, Spring Security Framework, and Hibernate Technologies
• Broad and deep experience with technologies such as CSS3/HTML5/JavaScript/Angular JS/React JS or latest UI Framework
• Expert in user interface development, engineering cross-browser, cross-device compliant code
• Exposure to RPA, AI, and intelligent automation tools

Responsibility:

• Provide oversight of requirements gathering and interpretation for all infrastructure impacts across the portfolio pipeline
• Provide oversight of the requirements process on key projects by clarifying requirements where and when necessary, ensure all teams understand the business reasons for the requirements
• Provide oversight of design and implementation reviews, participate in, and lead as appropriate, design and implementation reviews during the lifecycle of a project for key business initiatives and core engineering projects before they go into production to ensure Operational Readiness
• Provide expertise in data modeling, system integrations, best-practices and application testing.