The Lead Application Developer serves as a senior developer for all Appian solutions, providing development oversight, mentoring, and hands-on implementation support across the full software development lifecycle.
The ideal candidate possesses relevant Appian expertise, strong systems integration experience, and a proven ability to lead Agile development teams delivering mission-critical business applications.
This position is fully remote with occasional travel required to support customer meetings, program reviews, or project activities (if applicable).
The
Appian Lead Application Developer may perform a combination of some or all of the following duties:
- Support the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of Appian applications and workflow solutions.
- Serve as a technical authority for Appian platform capabilities, best practices, governance standards, and development methodologies.
- Design scalable and maintainable solutions utilizing Appian records, process models, interfaces, integrations, and data fabrics.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, architects, and development teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain integrations with enterprise systems, databases, APIs, and cloud-based platforms.
- Perform code reviews and establish development standards to ensure quality, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide root cause analysis and resolution recommendations.
- Lead Agile ceremonies, technical planning sessions, sprint reviews, and solution demonstrations.
- Mentor junior and mid-level developers and provide technical leadership across project teams.
- Support DevSecOps practices, deployment automation, configuration management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Monitor application performance and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and modernization.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, deployment procedures, and operational support materials.
Required Experience/Skills:- 5+ years of experience developing solutions on the Appian platform.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience leading technical teams and overseeing the delivery of enterprise application development projects.
- Experience designing and implementing Appian applications in production environments.
- Experience throughout the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Experience integrating Appian with external systems using REST, SOAP, APIs, web services, and relational databases.
- Experience conducting code reviews and establishing development standards and best practices.
- Active Appian Certified Lead Developer Certification.
- Candidates may work from any U.S. location with reliable high-speed internet access.
Desired Experience/Skills:- Experience with the Appian Government Acquisition Management Suite (GAM)
- Experience with Appian architecture, performance tuning, and scalability optimization.
- Experience supporting Federal Government and DoW programs.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern web technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise security practices, identity management, and authorization frameworks.
- Appian Low-Code Platform, Process Models & Integrations
- Business Process Automation (BPM)
- SQL and Relational Databases
- REST/SOAP APIs
- Java and JavaScript
- Git and Version Control
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- Cloud Technologies (AWS/Azure)
Education Requirement(s):- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Security Requirement(s):- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance (Secret, TS, TS/SCI)
Additional Information
We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits and compensation package for our employees, including but not limited to:
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- Group Life Insurance/Long Term Disability/Short Term Disability
- Retirement/401(k)
- Flexible Leave Policy
All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
