Sr / Lead Appian Developer

Company: US Tech Solutions
Location: Mc Lean
Posted on: May 10, 2025

Job Description:

Job ID: 25238-1 / 25239-1

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Sr / Lead Appian Developer
Location: On-site, M-F McLean, VA Day 1
Duration: 3 Months CTH

NEED ONLY LOCALS and W2 Only

Must Have Qualifications:

7 - 10+ years of IT experience.

5+ years of experience with Appian development (should have worked on latest versions).

5+ years using latest deployment methodologies (Automated pipelines, Atlassian tools).

2 years of core Java.

3+ years' experience integrating Appian with Active Directory, Ping, and other platforms.

3+ years of experience with creating APIs and consuming data exposed on APIs, XML, and web services (SOAP/REST).

Ability to review, design and understand the standards of Databases (db2, Sybase, Postgres SQL, and MS SQL).

Strong working knowledge on Infrastructure components, network, security models, EKS and Appian cloud. Angular, Java scripts and Ansible experience preferred.

Vetting Questions to be answered:
Please provide an overview of your most recent Appian project. What was the project? What was your contribution? What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?

Please provide an overview of your most recent Java development experience. What was the project? What was your contribution?

Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, modify, integrate, test, deploy and support enterprise-level Appian based BPM applications.
- Translate business process software requirement specifications into Appian process model prototypes and solutions.
- Deliver projects in Agile
- Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as DB2, Sybase, Ping, Active Directory, AWS and other internal systems in the enterprise.
- Develop and use library of reusable Appian components that can be leveraged in the enterprise.
- Participate in the day-to-day activities of the Appian BPM and Java based plug-ins development.
- Support planning activities, such as impact assessments, level of effort analysis and developer task assignments.
- Conduct and participate in detailed design reviews and validate that the design follows the approved architecture.
- Conduct regular code reviews to ensure best practices are being followed.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
- Deliver knowledge transfer sessions to ramp up new development team members.

Production Support
- Participate in on-call production support rotation.
- Jump into troubleshooting sessions if junior developers are unable to resolve production issues, and drive issue to resolution.
- Partner with IT Shared Services partners to resolve production issues.

Qualifications
--- 7+ years' experience in Information Technology.
--- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent working experience.
--- 5+ years of hands-on experience in design, implementation, and production support of Appian BPM applications. Work experience must be with Appian version 24.x or higher.
--- Working knowledge of Appian architecture.
--- EKS and Appian cloud experience.
--- Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to analyze system functionality with customer and resolve production issues.

--- Experience in tuning the system for performance improvements and performance related system design.
--- Thorough understanding of relational databases, SQL, XML and web services (SOAP/REST)
--- Experience applying Object Oriented Analysis and Design principles.
--- Knowledge of business process modeling and optimization techniques, including orchestration of modeled process
--- Some exposure to infrastructure, network and enterprise scale environments.
--- Practical experience designing and building enterprise and/or distributed systems.
--- Experience with systems and software architecture.

Key to success in this role
--- Willingness to learn and work in a team environment
--- Effective communication
--- Ability to work across silos
--- Deep curiosity to learn about new trends and topics
--- Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships
--- Ability to stay calm and poised in pressure situations
--- Customer Focus - Personally engage with customers (clients) to learn and deliver on their needs
--- Partnership - Align with what is right for the company
--- Drive for Execution - Focus on results rather than the appearance of results (i.e., be good, not just look good)

Preferred Skills
--- Demonstrates ability to analytically address complex problems, process critical data, establish facts, and draw quality conclusions.
--- Ability to work well under pressure, some tight deadlines and with ambiguity on some projects.

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