Appian Lead Product Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Serve as the technical owner of the Appian platform - including environment strategy, configuration, performance, and stability.

- Plan and execute Appian upgrades, patches, capacity scaling, and environment refreshes.

- Define and enforce architecture standards, best practices, design patterns, and governance for Appian implementations.

- Collaborate with business, delivery teams, infrastructure, information security, and external vendors to ensure reliable and compliant platform operations.

- Review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and performance requirements.

- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for high priority incidents.

- Support DevOps/CI-CD pipelines for Appian deployments and promote modern automation practices.

- Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications :

- 8+ years of hands-on Appian experience, including architecture and environment management.

- Strong understanding of Appian components : Records, Data Fabric/CDTs, SAIL, process models, integrations, plug-ins, RPA.

- Proven experience with upgrades, performance tuning, and environment configuration (Appian Cloud and self managed).

- Solid knowledge of integration patterns (REST/SOAP, queues, JDBC).

- Experience working with security teams on SSO, SAML/OIDC, RBAC, and platform hardening.

- Experience with identity and access management and platform security.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills :

- Appian Lead Developer certification.

- Experience working with Appian Support and vendor partners.

- Background in financial services or other regulated environments.

- Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring tools (Splunk/ELK/AppDynamics, etc.)