What are the responsibilities and job description for the Appian Low- Code Technical Lead position at Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators?
DMBA (Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators) is a non-profit organization that administers benefits for companies who are owned or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We're seeking a seasoned Appian Low-Code Technical Lead to lead the design, development, and operational excellence of a suite of mission-critical applications. You'll partner with product owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to define architecture principles, ensure scalability, resilience, and maintainability, and drive best practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development team with technical execution of Appian solutions aligned with strategic business goals.
- Define and enforce platform standards, governance models, and reusable design patterns.
- Lead application lifecycle management: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, and environment promotion.
- Advise on infrastructure architecture for high availability, load balancing, container orchestration, and cloud hosting.
- Collaborate with DevOps and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices, monitoring, and alerting.
- Mentor and coach development teams on SAIL scripting, process modeling, data modeling, and advanced integrations (REST, SOAP, JDBC, event-driven).
- Conduct performance tuning, capacity planning, and load testing to meet SLAs under high concurrency.
- Evaluate and implement custom plug-ins, RPA, and advanced document-generation frameworks.
- Engage with clients and internal stakeholders to gather requirements, present architectural tradeoffs, and guide solution adoption.
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise low-code BPM solutions, including 2 years in a technical lead or lead-developer capacity.
- Deep expertise in Appian platform components (Process Models, Interfaces, Records, Rules, CDT) or equivalent low-code tools.
- Proven track record designing scalable, high-performance architectures on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Background in data architecture: secure relational data models, data migrations, and data fabric patterns.
- Integration experience with RESTful APIs, SOAP services, message queues, and enterprise systems (e.g., Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow).
- Familiarity with containerization, microservices design, and orchestration platforms.
- Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting complex technical concepts to stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum typing speed of 50 WPM.
Preferred Skills
- Appian Certified Lead Developer or equivalent certification in low-code platforms.
- Experience developing or customizing Appian plug-ins, Smart Services, or Connected Systems.
- Background in RPA or IDP solutions, AI/ML integration, or advanced document generation.
- Master's degree in a technical discipline.
What success looks like
- Measurable improvement in application stability and decrease in production issues and bug ticket generations.
- High adoption and confidence from business teams in low-code solutions and operations.
- Reduced rework through high code quality and load balancing.
- Predictable, on-time releases with clear release notes.
Location and work model
- This is a remote role within the U.S. with occasional in-office presence in Salt Lake City, Utah.