Appian BPM Senior Architect

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Feb 18

Role - Appian BPM Senior Architect

Duration- Full Time/Contract

Location- Houston, TX (Hybrid or 2-3 Month initial Remote )

The Work:

The Appian BPM Architect will provide expert leadership and guidance on
projects, including enterprise application architecture, design review,
technical mentorship, performance testing, scaling, and industry specific
knowledge. This person will utilize Appian's Best Practices and industry
best practices when operating and maintaining existing solutions, and to
architect and design Business Process Management (BPM) implementations that
reduce overall project risk. The Appian Solutions Architect will design
solutions (platform, system, and process) architectures based on end-user
requirements and complete design reviews of project team deliverables to
ensure adherence to best practices, maximize reuse, and minimize technical
debt.

Responsibilities:

Act as lead liaison with customers to collect, clarify, analyze and
translate business requirements into technical design and implementation

Produces technical solutions with detailed narrative for proposal
development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement
phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.

Collaborates closely with stakeholders to develop a deep and thorough
understanding of the client enterprise while leading large, multi-year
program initiatives

Produces vision and strategy collateral, and creates roadmaps to lead
modernization efforts

Serves as one of the primary technological points of contact in the
organization, responsible for guidance and overarching technical oversight,
governance, architecture alignment and construction efforts, including team
leadership and mentoring

Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture
diagrams, interface diagrams and design best practices

Facilitate meetings with client and internal technical and operational teams

Provide guidance to team members and help solve technical challenges and
remove roadblocks

Experienced in Appian 18.x (and above) design, implementation and ability
to translate software requirements specifications into Appian application
and prototype.

Implementing design, development, and testing best practices across the
entire software development life cycle.

Oversee and participate in the day-to-day activities of the development
team.

Oversee team of developers to perform root-cause analysis and preliminary
problem diagnosis

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Certified Level 2 Appian Developer.

5+ years of experience in IT with responsibilities in one or more of the
areas - Technical Architecture, Application Development, Business process
management and/or Enterprise Application Integration (SOA) with Appian or
other BPM tools is required.

3+ years in defining and documenting architecture for technology
implementations leveraging different architectural views.

3+ years of experience in Enterprise Application integration (SOA, ESB) and
n-tier client-server architectures preferred

4+ years of experience in all phases of software development for
large-scale business critical applications following Agile methodologies.

3+ years of Business Architecture including identifying & decomposing
business capabilities.

4+ years of Business process modeling & optimization experience

4+ years of recent hands-on experience with Appian.

3+ years of experience developing Appian Plugin

4+ years of experience in the design and implementation of SOAP and REST
Web Service.

4+ years of working knowledge of Application Servers like JBoss, Weblogic,
IIS, Tomcat etc. as part of the installation.

4+ years experienced in configuring, debugging, and systems integration
including configuring forms, reports, underlying logic, and interface
components as a developer.

4+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL scripting. Oracle
Databases preferred.

3+ years Experience working with Appian Tempo.

Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Desired Experience:

Certified Level 3 Appian Developer

Previous expertise in the role of an architect, responsible for defining
the solution architecture on large complex business critical n-tier
client/server initiatives involving one or more of the technologies ?
Mobile/Portals, Workflow, Enterprise Service Bus(ESB), Web Services,
Message brokers, Relational Databases.

Exposure to common industry platforms and programming languages ? Appian
BPM, IBM WebSphere, Mule, LAMP/JBOSS, HADOOP, Java, Microsoft/.Net is
preferred.

Masters degree in Computer Science or other related field

Experience working with Appian Sites.

Java developer with Maven builds experience is a strong plus.

3+ years of experience with Agile Framework.

orchestration of modeled process through a Workflow application.

Understanding of Object-Oriented techniques.

Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term
perspectives of situations.

Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.

Excellent analytical and technical skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and
negotiation.

Must be able to work with users to gather and refine requirements.