Appian Architect

Position: Appian Architect (HYBRID ROLE)

Duration: Long-term Contract

Interview: 2 video interviews

Citizenship: Open

Location: Washington DC 2x/week

Responsibilities:

• Engages the client organization, manages key stakeholders, and fosters relationships to develop a deep and thorough understanding of the enterprise
• Creates a vision, strategy, and produces roadmaps to lead Appian adoption and modernization efforts by applying a proven track record of assessments, target technology and IT landscape specifications, technical asset configuration and multi-phased migration deliveries
• Implements and manages the modernization journey while ensuring adherence to organizational compliance, best practices, and industry standards
• Serves as the primary technological point of contact, responsible for the overarching technical oversight, architecture, and construction efforts
• Develops effective governance, leads technical resources, mitigates risk, monitors quality, security, etc., and ensures success in the execution of these areas
• Participates in, and leads technology evaluations, proofs of concept, client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting and client buy-in
• Coordinates and collaborates on developing requirements and mission outcomes with executive leadership, business stakeholders, various technical teams, contractors, etc.
• Serves as the technical strategy champion, resolving program issues, answering questions, and prescribing adoption of proposed solutions for leadership, staff, and contractors
• Authors required documentation, briefings, SLAs, and technical standards for the architectural runway
• Works closely, leads and coordinates with other architects and additional members of the technical leadership and other program teams
• Engages diverse organizations, industry partners and clients during business acquisition phases and for all capture activities
• Produces technical solutions with detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.
• Provides solution architecture, documents design, codes, develops program logic for new applications, analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications and ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented.
• Analyzes requirements, maintains, tests, and integrates plug-ins and custom application components.
• Produces technical solutions with a detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.
• Participates in, and leads formal technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and other R&D activity, providing client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting, making recommendations, and facilitating client buy-in

Required Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience serving as an architect on programs leveraging the Appian platform
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience with participation in major modernization and integration projects while designing and architecting large scale applications
• Appian Experience should include scripting, platform configuration, design, and deployment
• Candidates should possess the skill to develop on the Appian platform including the customization of the core applications
• Custom application development on the Appian platform including Custom UI Pages and content in the CMS
• Certified Implementation Specialist certification in one of the OOTB Appian modules
• Experience creating technical solutions for proposal development during procurement phases
• End-to-end lifecycle experience re-factoring legacy applications into the Appian platform
• Excellent communication skills
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Skills:

• Integration experience (SOAP, REST, and JSON as well as JDBC and file imports)
• Experience implementing systems using the Agile/Scrum methodology
• Administration of a Appian instance including the management of users, groups, and roles, CMS Development, ACLs, business rules, workflows, UI actions, UI policies, dictionary, and catalog items Orchestration and Discovery experience a plus
• Appian Certified Application Developer certification is a plus
• Appian Service Portal micro-certifications a plus

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Appian Architect: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20005: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person