Custom Application Developer at Appian (Tysons, VA)

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a Custom Application Developer to join our Professional Services team. In this role, you will be engaging with our customers post-sales to develop software solutions on the Appian platform. These applications help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation. Your primary responsibility will be to create and implement these innovative technical solutions to meet our customer requirements. You will engage with clients frequently and directly to gather and probe requirements and validate your solutions.

What you’ll do:

• Immediately impact clients by partnering throughout the entire life-cycle of projects to define, design, and implement business process-based solutions.


• Drive adoption by empowering clients to become self-sufficient with building process applications on their own.


• Design, implement and provide demonstrations of solutions with Appian software.


• Design, build and launch new data models in production.

• Establish and implement metrics to optimize team delivery and measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability, and adaptability.


• Independently communicate with both client technical teams and business owners as needed during the design and implementation.


• Engage with clients frequently and directly to gather and probe requirements and validate your solutions.

You’ll be successful in this role if you are:

• Skilled at working with clients to define business processes and gather functional system requirements


• Not an order taker; asks “why” questions and solve the right problems


• Passionate about technology and enjoys continuously learning


• Successful on cross-functional teams; has built products using agile methodologies


• An excellent communicator and is comfortable presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences

Required skills and experience:

• B.S./B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field/degree


• 2-5 years of experience with hands-on software development or technical consulting


• Experience with programming or scripting languages


• Knowledge of software testing practice


• Experience designing data schemas and models


• Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL is preferred


• Experience developing integrations using APIs


• Experience with agile software development practices


• Willingness to travel 50%  

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