Senior Appian Development Lead – Application Architect

We are seeking a Senior Appian Development Lead to serve as the strategic engineering authority for Appian delivery across a multi-team program. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with program-level oversight, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure Appian solutions.

The Senior Appian Development Lead will guide day-to-day development for their team while setting architectural direction across all Appian teams. This includes mentoring other Appian leads, representing Appian engineering with leadership and client stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement in delivery practices and platform usage.

This role is expected to lead platform modernization efforts, challenge legacy patterns, and proactively introduce forward-looking solutions that improve efficiency, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

The candidate for this position will be required to work on our customers site in Washington, DC at least 2 days a week.

• Lead an Appian development team, providing day-to-day technical and people leadership and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery

• Translate business and functional requirements into well-designed Appian solutions and guide implementation decisions for the team

• Remain hands‑on in Appian design, development, and troubleshooting while leading the team

• Review Appian designs, configurations, and implementations to ensure quality, performance, security, and maintainability

• Coach and mentor Appian developers through design reviews, feedback, and technical guidance

• Ensure technical documentation, design artifacts, and implementation standards are created and maintained for the team

• Provide senior technical leadership across all Appian teams, guiding architectural consistency and engineering practices

• Mentor and support other Appian development leads, helping resolve technical challenges and cross-team dependencies

• Set and reinforce Appian development standards, best practices, and reusable patterns across teams

• Serve as the primary senior technical representative for Appian engineering with executive leadership and client stakeholders, providing architectural guidance, modernization strategy, and engineering direction

• Communicate technical direction, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Identify opportunities to improve Appian delivery practices, architecture, and platform usage, and drive adoption of those improvements across teams

• Partner with program leadership to manage subcontractor performance, onboarding, and technical integration into delivery teams

• Continuously evaluate new Appian platform capabilities and introduce practical modernization initiatives across teams

• Identify architectural inefficiencies, technical debt patterns, and delivery bottlenecks, and implement measurable improvements

• Lead platform-level improvement efforts that enhance performance, scalability, maintainability, and development velocity

• Develop and present modernization roadmaps and innovation proposals to program and client leadership

• Develop and lead technical upskilling initiatives to keep Appian developers current on platform capabilities, best practices, and evolving patterns

• Extensive hands‑on experience designing, developing, and delivering solutions on the Appian platform

• Proven experience leading an Appian development team, including day‑to‑day technical leadership and people management

• Experience providing technical leadership and oversight for subcontractors or vendor resources within an enterprise delivery environment

• Strong understanding of BPM concepts, application architecture, integration patterns, and enterprise application design

• Experience translating business and functional requirements into scalable, maintainable Appian solutions

• Ability to remain technically hands‑on while effectively leading and mentoring developers

• Experience providing senior technical leadership across multiple teams or a complex delivery environment

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and support other technical leads and guide architectural consistency across teams

• Experience setting and enforcing…