Lead Appian Solutions Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama.

📋 Description

• Contribute as a key member of an Agile development team.

• Create new applications, enhance current applications, and provide support for production applications.

• Deliver outputs throughout the application lifecycle, including handling production incidents, communicating with end-users, refining tickets, analyzing sizing and impact, documenting designs, conducting unit tests, designing tests, managing deployments, overseeing code management, participating in peer reviews, and engaging in Agile sprint ceremonies.

• Act as the lead developer within an Agile team comprising 3–6 other developers.

• Serve as the development liaison between Product/Business Analysts and Quality Assurance Testers.

• Engage in hands-on technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance tasks.

• Implement new technologies and adhere to development standards using the bank’s Appian PaaS environment.

• Complete and manage systems analysis, design, and development for both basic and complex systems.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and UX Design teams on design artifacts.

• Inform decisions on implementation, impacts, task estimations, and quality assurance activities by leveraging Appian expertise.

• Establish security models that reflect least-privilege principles and avoid toxic role combinations.

• Write systems architecture documentation, technical specifications, and technical tasks aligned to user stories.

• Develop and maintain clear, traceable documentation that is friendly for developers.

• Manage systems data within enterprise-wide technology tracking tools.

• Assess interrelationships among programs, interfacing applications, and platforms.

• Guide integration patterns with upstream and downstream systems.

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and technology teams.

• Direct and oversee less experienced team members and coordinate development tasks.

• Stay updated with Appian capabilities and recommend and implement new features.

• Ensure adherence to corporate, regulatory, risk, and internal control standards.

• Identify risk-related issues that require escalation and assist with audit and regulatory issue remediation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Associate’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience, or a Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience, or alternatively, a combined total of 9 years of education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years in solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience.

• Expert-level proficiency in the Appian platform.

• Associate Developer Certification is mandatory.

• Required experience with Appian version 24.1 or later.

• Proficiency in Synced Records, Integration Objects, and Advanced SAIL UI development.

• Experience in Appian application administration, including process monitoring, managing memory and resources, package management and deployment, security modeling, health checks, and interaction with Appian Support.

• Practical experience with relational databases, covering data architecture, table design, query optimization, performance monitoring, and stored procedure development.

• Proven experience with unit testing of Appian objects and process models.

• Ability to create risk-based test plans and provide guidance for QA teams.

• Hands-on experience with full-stack software engineering.

• Familiarity with object-oriented languages, front-end Javascript/HTML frameworks, data access technologies, software packaging tools, and source code management tools.

• Experience with SIEM tools and log management platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, YAML, DevOps toolsets, scripting, and test automation.

• Some experience in financial industry solutions and institutional financial products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Competitive salary and performance incentives.

• Retirement savings plan with employer matching.