TACG is seeking an Appian Architect to advise customers on the technical design, architecture and implementation of Appian solutions on a customer's private cloud or on-premise hosting solution, and/or integrating Appian government cloud offerings with the customer's infrastructure. This individual will work with clients on all aspects of their program to drive technical success and efficiency, including advising of development practice, program management and governance and delivery automation (version control, configuration management, and other DevSecOps and Infrastructure Automation practices)

This position is located in the Dayton, OH area.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• 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

Requirements:

• Education:
  • 5 years’ experience serving as an architect on programs leveraging the Appian platform
  • Appian Analyst Certification on recent Appian versions
  • 10 years of technology leadership experience with participation in major modernization and integration projects while designing and architecting large scale applications
• Required Knowledge/Experience:
  • Experience in Appian Process Models, SAIL Interfaces, Expression Rules, Functions
  • Experience on Web APIs, Sites, Process Model as a Service, Admin Console, Document Management, and Integration Smart Services
  • 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
  • Knowledge of web services and integration would be preferred

• 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