Senior Appian Developer McLeanVA

This position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer, without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.

Must Haves: Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in design, implementation, and production support of Appian BPM applications. Work experience must be with latest Appian version 22.X or higher. Strong developer experience. Must have thorough understanding of relational databases, SQL, XML and web services (SOAP/REST).

Your work falls into three primary categories:
Project Delivery and Operations
- 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 either Agile or Waterfall software development methodologies, as project dictates.
- Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as DB2Active Directory and the internal -systems in the enterprise.
- Design and implement complex integrations with downstream and upstream applications
- Design and implement custom plugins using Java framework
- Have good knowledge on Appian Infrastructure
- 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.

Technical Leadership
- 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
5+ years' experience in Information Technology.
bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent working experience.
3+ years of hands-on experience in design, implementation, and production support of Appian BPM applications. Work experience must be with latest Appian version 22.X or higher.
Have working knowledge of Appian architecture.
Have Appain 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.
Experience in building custom plugins using Appian Custom plugin framework
Knowledge of business process modeling and optimization techniques, including orchestration of modeled process
Sound exposure to Appian 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
Technical leadership and effective communication
Change leadership
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

Top 3 Personal Competencies to possess
Customer Focus Personally engage with customers (clients) to learn and deliver on their needs
Partnership Align myself and my team 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); be an impact junkie

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.
Experience with Weblogic, IBM DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server, UNIX/Linux, GIT, tomcat, My SQL.
Experience with financial services industry.