Technical Architect · Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning and Consultation:

• Serve as the primary Appian strategy advisor to business and IT leadership.

• Assess business requirements and translate them into effective Appian solutions.

• Lead architectural discussions, influencing decisions regarding Appian implementations.

• Evangelize the usage of reusable frameworks and artifacts, create knowledge/certification artifacts and evaluation criteria guide.

Design and Implementation:

• Design scalable and sustainable Appian architectures, including integration with other enterprise systems.

• Oversee the development and customization of Appian applications using Appian designer and other development tools.  

• Experience of performance compliant design, sustainable and solution architecture.

• Leverage modern technologies such as cloud capabilities from various platforms to build efficient solutions

• Implements features using native Appian’s out of the box capabilities and plugins, third party components.

Governance and Best Practices:

• Develop and enforce Appian best practices and governance frameworks. o Ensure solutions are built for performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Manage the Appian platform upgrade process, ensuring compatibility and minimal disruption.

Collaboration and Leadership:

• Lead cross-functional teams in the design, development, and deployment of Appian solutions.

• Facilitate collaboration between stakeholders, developers, and IT operations teams.

• Mentor and develop team members, enhancing their Appian capabilities.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay abreast of Appian product updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

• Recommend and implement improvements to existing Appian solutions.

• Drive innovation by exploring new Appian modules and capabilities like Appian AI (Email Classification, Document Classification and Extraction, Prompt Builder), GenAI Capabilities via Plugins.

Skills and Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive experience with Appian’s core platform and development tools.

• Proficiency in integration technologies (REST, SOAP, JWT). o Knowledge on Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure services and integrations is an added advantage.

• Proven experience with key technologies relevent to the Appian.

• Integration solution including: SSO, SAML, SSL, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, REST etc.

• Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Security and Architecture, middleware and discovery technologies, database design schemas and data modeling.

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Architectural Acumen:

• Strong ability to design scalable, high-performing Appian architectures.

• Experience with Appian application customization and configuration.

Experience & Educational Background:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Required certifications: Appian Senior or Lead Developer Certification.

• At least 5+ years of experience in designing, developing and architecting via Appian platform. Must have played architect role in end-to-end execution of 3-4 Appian projects.

• Exposure to scalable design patterns using Java, J2EE, Micro services-based architecture.

Other Preferred Skills

• Previous leadership role in an IT focused consulting services company

• Project Management experience

• Strong understanding of User Experience (UX) concepts as it relates to applications.

• Certified in agile framework and associated scrum methodology.

• Low Code / No Code Development experience in other technologies like, Mendix, Out Systems etc.