Solution Architect (DoW)

About the role

Appian is seeking a Solution Architect to support the Department of War (DoW) in modernizing their mission systems. The ideal candidate will advise customers on the technical design, architecture, and implementation of Appian solutions, helping to integrate and define program and project management disciplines with a compelling technical solution and delivery roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Advises customers on the technical design, architecture, and implementation of Appian solutions on a customer’s private cloud or on-premise hosting solution, and/or integrating Appian government cloud offerings with the customer’s infrastructure.
• Supports the sales cycle through the creation of high-value, differentiated solutions, based on Appian’s technology, that integrates and defines program and project management disciplines with a compelling technical solution and delivery roadmap.
• Presents and vets integrated solutions and complex technical concepts and designs to our customers and other audiences.
• Supports customers on the configuration, testing, deployment and operations of Appian applications, following agile delivery methodologies and Appian best practices.
• Works with clients on all aspects of their program to drive technical success and efficiency, including advising of development practice, program management and governance, and delivery automation (version control, configuration management, and other DevSecOps and Infrastructure Automation practices).
• Leads the definition and development of Appian Customer Success innovations and offerings in order to support leading Appian delivery capabilities, and brings together emerging requirements and practices from our customers and industry.
• Collects and reviews technical challenges with a team of architects and distills into common best practices and common solutions.
• Supports the development and review of whitepapers and pre-sales solutioning and proposals.
• Advise DoW customers on how to position Appian as an agility layer that integrates mission and business processes across existing DoW systems of record, using Appian features such as Data Fabric to unify, relate, and act on data without requiring wholesale replacement of existing platforms.
• Designs Appian-based solution architectures for DoW modernization initiatives that connect operational workflows, case management, process automation, and data orchestration across complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrates experience supporting or solutioning within the DoW ecosystems and/or related command, control, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission systems.
• Applies familiarity with DoW enterprise systems and modernization programs, including ECMA, GCSS for logistics, GFEBS, LMP, ACWS, and other systems and capabilities managed under CPE ES2.
• Works with DoW stakeholders, mission owners, system integrators, and technical teams to shape architectures that respect DoW hosting, cybersecurity, RMF/ATO, data access, integration, and interoperability constraints.
• Supports DoW-focused capture, proposal, whitepaper, and customer advisory efforts by translating Appian platform capabilities into mission-relevant technical solutions and modernization roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience advising customers on design and implementation of government cloud computing platforms.
• At least 10 years of multi-tier application design and architecture.
• Experience with architecting secure cloud based hosting solutions for federal customers using Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Leadership experience designing, architecting or delivering one or more enterprise-level cloud environments (e.g. C2S, JWICS, GovCloud, etc.).
• Experience authoring federal proposals and whitepaper is required.
• In depth experience managing federal programs and projects and leading IT delivery using agile frameworks, tooling and methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe.
• Experience accelerating IT solution under the federal government’s Risk Management Framework is preferred.
• Experience with designing and implementing DevSecOps pipelines and Infrastructure Automation frameworks, using toolsets like Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Cucumber, JMeter, and Fitnesse, preferred.
• Willingness to travel; 10-15% to support customer engagements including SCIF’s.

Qualifications

• Basic qualifications include:
• Clearance: Possession of or ability to obtain a US government public trust and/or DoD clearance. TS/SCI with CI Poly strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Guiding client enterprise architecture teams as needed during the design and implementation of scalable solutions.
• Excellent problem solving skills and talent for identifying creative solutions.
• Ability to identify and lead the creation of market offerings, and lead the formulation of corporate capabilities and intellectual property.

Tools and Resources

• Training and Development: Department-specific training during onboarding, continuous learning resources, and mentorship programs.
• Growth Opportunities: Leadership program, Appian University training, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health coverage, EAP, life and disability insurance, ESPP, retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits, and more.

Company Overview

Appian provides AI automation for mission-critical work. We automate complex processes in large enterprises and governments. Our platform is known for its unique reliability and scale. We’ve been automating processes for more than 25 years and understand enterprise operations like no one else.