Principal Software Engineer - Appian - Remote

Summary

The Principal Appian Developer will serve as a design authority and capability multiplier for our Appian platform. This role is responsible for delivering high-complexity solutions, defining standards, enabling teams, and reducing dependency on external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• To simplify complexities for each customer.
• Acts as a design authority for Appian solutions, guiding architecture and design decisions across applications.
• Led delivery of high-complexity Appian solutions, including case management, record-centric applications, integrations, and reporting.
• Defines, evolves, and enforces Appian standards and patterns (data, records, interfaces, processes, reporting, performance).
• Enable and mentor other Appian developers through reviews, guidance, and structured knowledge sharing.
• Reduces reliance on external vendors by building internal Appian self-sufficiency.
• Ensures solutions adhere to platform guardrails, performance best practices, and security requirements.
• PARTNERS WITH PRODUCT, BUSINESS, AND PLATFORM TEAMS TO ALIGN APPIAN SOLUTIONS TO BUSINESS OUTCOMES.
• Influences Appian DevOps, deployment, and performance monitoring practices in collaboration with shared teams.

Qualifications/Education/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university; plus six to eight years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Prefer experience in Healthcare, PBM and/or ABM, workers’ compensation and/or insurance industry.
• Requires a deep understanding of the application of Agile development methodology.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience: 5+ years Appian development (end-to-end delivery in Appian Designer)
• Designing/building Appian SAIL interfaces (complex forms, grids, UX patterns, validation, responsive layouts)
• BPM / workflow (Process Models, subprocess patterns, process variables, timers, escalations, SLAs, exception handling)
• Data: Record Types, data modeling, Record views/related actions, data sync patterns, query optimization
• Integrations: Integration Objects, Connected Systems, Web APIs (REST/SOAP), authentication patterns (OAuth2/JWT/basic), error handling/retries
• Strong understanding of SQL (selects, inserts/updates, joins, stored procedures/functions) and relational data modeling
• Security design: groups/roles, object security, record-level security, least-privilege patterns, environment separation
• Performance & scalability: query tuning, paging, async patterns, expression optimization, interface performance troubleshooting
• Deployment & SDLC: packaging, environment promotion, versioning strategies, release management, automated testing approach
• Demonstrated technical leadership: solution architecture, standards/governance, code reviews, mentoring, and leading delivery teams

Shared / Platform Responsibilities

• Provide leadership input into: Packaging and promotion readiness, CI/CD and automated testing strategy, Performance monitoring and tuning practices
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security teams to ensure Appian solutions scale safely and reliably

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Duties are performed primarily in a home office setting utilizing computer equipment.
• Travel to attend meetings and visit locations throughout the country may be required.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.