Principal Software Engineer - Appian - Remote

 

Note:  we are unable to hire in every state 

***This role will be a Principal Appian Developer; Appian experience is required.***

Summary:  The Principal Appian Developer will serve as a design authority and capability multiplier for our Appian platform. This role is responsible not only for delivering high-complexity solutions, but for defining standards, enabling teams, and reducing dependency on external partners.   This is not a senior “feature developer” role. Success in this position is measured by how effectively the incumbent scales Appian capability across teams, not by how much work they personally complete.  

Key Responsibilities: “To simplify complexities for each customer.” 

•  Acts as a design authority for Appian solutions, guiding architecture and design decisions across applications.  
• Leads delivery of high-complexity Appian solutions, including case management, record-centric applications, integrations, and reporting.  
• Defines, evolves, and enforces Appian standards and patterns (data, records, interfaces, processes, reporting, performance).  
• Enable and mentor other Appian developers through reviews, guidance, and structured knowledge sharing  
• Reduces reliance on external vendors by building internal Appian self-sufficiency.  
• Ensures solutions adhere to platform guardrails, performance best practices, and security requirements.  
• Partners with product, business, and platform teams to align Appian solutions to business outcomes.  
• Influences Appian DevOps, deployment, and performance monitoring practices in collaboration with shared teams. 

Shared / Platform Responsibilities:  

Provide leadership input into:   

• Packaging and promotion readiness  
• CI/CD and automated testing strategy  
• Performance monitoring and tuning practices  
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security teams to ensure Appian solutions scale safely and reliably  

Qualifications/Education/Certifications: 

Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university; plus six to eight years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.  Prefer experience in Healthcare, PBM and/or ABM, workers’ compensation and/or insurance industry.  Requires a deep understanding of the application of Agile development methodology.    

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Required experience:  

• 5+ years Appian development (end-to-end delivery in Appian Designer)  

• Designing/building Appian SAIL interfaces (complex forms, grids, UX patterns, validation, responsive layouts)  

• BPM / workflow (Process Models, subprocess patterns, process variables, timers, escalations, SLAs, exception handling)  

• Data: Record Types, data modeling, Record views/related actions, data sync patterns, query optimization  

• Integrations: Integration Objects, Connected Systems, Web APIs (REST/SOAP), authentication patterns (OAuth2/JWT/basic), error handling/retries  

• Strong understanding of SQL (selects, inserts/updates, joins, stored procedures/functions) and relational data modeling  

• Security design: groups/roles, object security, record-level security, least-privilege patterns, environment separation