Sr. Appian Software Engineer (Remote)

The Sr. Appian Software Engineer will report to the Sr. Director, Salesforce and Marketing Technology in the Technology Department. This role is responsible for owning the technical direction, build quality, and delivery of Appian-based solutions supporting our Retirement & Wealth business, while acting as the hands-on lead for a team of Appian developers.

• Serve as the primary technical lead for Appian applications supporting Retirement & Wealth business processes, workflows, and integrations.
• Design, build, and maintain complex Appian applications, including process models, interfaces (SAIL), data fabric/records, integrations, decision rules, and expression rules.
• Set and enforce Appian development standards, design patterns, and governance across the team to ensure consistent, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Translate business requirements from Product Owners and stakeholders into technical designs, effort estimates, and delivery plans.
• Partner with solution architects to design integrations between Appian and enterprise systems (e.g., Salesforce, SQL Server, REST/SOAP APIs, message queues) with attention to security, performance, and data integrity.
• Lead technical design reviews and code reviews; ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture direction, security standards, and non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability).
• Mentor and provide day-to-day technical guidance to Appian developers; support hiring, onboarding, and skill development on the team.
• Partner with QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to define and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Appian package deployment across environments.
• Own performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for production Appian applications; participate in incident response as needed.
• Evaluate new Appian platform capabilities, plug-ins, and releases; make recommendations on adoption and upgrade planning.
• Maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, and application inventories.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.