Senior Consultant (Public Sector)

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to join our Customer Success team. In this role, you will engage with our customers post-sales to develop software solutions on the Appian platform. These applications help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation.

Responsibilities

• Work throughout the entire project life-cycle to define, design, develop and implement custom software and AI solutions using Appian’s platform for our commercial clients.
• Work within an agile environment to understand our client’s business processes and technical needs.
• Launch new relational data models in production.
• Develop APIs to integrate with multiple systems.
• Brainstorm AI use cases and implement Appian’s AI tools by applying retrieval augment generation (RAG), agentic workflows, prompt engineering and the latest generative models as a part of transforming how customers run their organization.
• Collaborate with client’s technical teams and business users as needed throughout the entire software and development life cycle and drive adoption by empowering clients to become self-sufficient with building process applications on their own.

Requirements

• Passion for mentoring/developing others and experience leading small teams through post-sale software implementation.
• Ability to work with clients to define business processes and gather functional and technical system requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, passion for technology and continuous learning, and affinity for asking “why” and solving the right problems.
• History of success on cross-functional teams; experience building products using agile methodologies (pair programming, stand-ups, planning sessions, and sprints).
• Basic understanding of object oriented programming, experience working with relational databases and database design/data modeling, and SQL skills (writing queries, joins, views, etc).
• Knowledge of software testing practices (test-driven development, automated test suites within a continuous integration framework); integrations experience using APIs such as REST and SOAP, JDBC connections, and web services; familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Machine Learning, Google Cloud, Application Integration, Database, Developer Tools, Management & Governance, and Elastic Containers (preferred).

Qualifications

• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector roles must be a U.S. citizen.
• 3+ years of experience with hands-on software development or technical consulting.
• B.S./B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or related field/degree.
• Willingness to travel; 20% or less annually to support customer engagement.