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Lead Appian Developer

Mindlance

McLean, VA
Contract
Senior
103/hr-106/hr
4 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Lead Appian Developer will serve as a BPM expert responsible for setup, configuration, design, and enterprise development within the Appian platform. The role involves leading project teams, ensuring best practices, and supporting system integration and cloud applications in a fast-paced environment, primarily based in McLean, VA or Plano, TX.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as the BPM expert in the tool (Appian) setup/configuration/design, process and workflow usage, enterprise development, standards and best practices usage, training and delivery.
  • Act as a BPM technology lead for the project teams to address systems, software integration and compatibility issues especially in a multi-tenant environment, inclusive of providing an integrated solution covering custom applications, other packages, infrastructure aspects and progressing to cloud applications.
  • Analyze and support system requirements and functional specification to make design decisions, including independent judgment on any changes, enhancements, resolutions to roadblocks and identified defects.
  • Deliver and recommend BPM solutions that adopt the enterprise BPM and SOA architectures, patterns, policies and standards, guidelines and principles, procedures, and methodology, while working closely with the Architects to define/refine as BPM maturity progresses.
  • Build BPM reference implementations and integrations with other patterns, components and systems while working with the Solution Architects and other Technical Leads.
  • Leverage a collaboration technique for identifying reuse opportunities with other members of the team and execute on reuse objectives.
  • Design and implement complex enterprise integrations with industry standard technologies such as Databases, Active Directory, Security/Web APIs, Ping, Snowflake, Dremio and other internal systems in the enterprise.
  • Develop Java-based plug-ins for Appian.
  • Conduct technical assessments and detailed design reviews, validating that the design follows the approved architecture.
  • Play a major role in evolving the BPM Center of Excellence.
  • Assist in furthering BPM enablement efforts including championing BPM best practices for new applications.
  • Socialize BPM concepts within Business Users/Stakeholders including conducting demos on the Enterprise Platform (Appian).

Requirements

  • 12+ years of total IT experience.
  • 7+ years with Appian - design, development, configuration and Infrastructure.
  • 3+ years leading a team of developers.
  • Extensive experience developing Java plugins for Appian.
  • 5+ years of experience with databases, APIs, and ability to create integrations with systems such as Active Directory, Ping, Snowflake, Dremio, and/or other internal systems/platforms.
  • 3+ years' experience with architecting and creating design, network and security recommendations for new Applications.
  • Strong working knowledge on Kubernetes and AWS or Appian Cloud.
  • 5+ years of Core Java.
  • 5+ years using latest deployment methodologies (Automated pipelines, Atlassian tools).
  • 3+ years' experience in Angular, JavaScript, and Ansible.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong knowledge of architectural principles and enterprise technology solutions.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in Angular, JavaScript, and Ansible.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
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Job Details

Posted AtJul 19, 2025
Salary103/hr-106/hr
Job TypeContract
Work ModeOnsite
ExperienceSenior

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About Mindlance

Website

mindlance.com

Location

McLean, VA

Industry

Custom Computer Programming Services

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