Technical Lead

Role: Appian Lead Product Engineer Location: Tampa, FL (On-site) Job Type: Contract/Fulltime Roles and Responsibilities: • Serve as the technical owner of the Appian platform - including environment strategy, configuration, performance, and stability. • Plan and execute Appian upgrades, patches, capacity scaling, and environment refreshes. • Define and enforce architecture standards, best practices, design patterns, and governance for Appian implementations. • Collaborate with business, delivery teams, infrastructure, information security, and external vendors to ensure reliable and compliant platform operations. • Review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and performance requirements. • Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for high priority incidents. • Support DevOps/CI-CD pipelines for Appian deployments and promote modern automation practices. • Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. Required Qualifications: • 8+ years of hands-on Appian experience, including architecture and environment management. • Strong understanding of Appian components: Records, Data Fabric/CDTs, SAIL, process models, integrations, plug-ins, RPA. • Proven experience with upgrades, performance tuning, and environment configuration (Appian Cloud and self managed). • Solid knowledge of integration patterns (REST/SOAP, queues, JDBC). • Experience working with security teams on SSO, SAML/OIDC, RBAC, and platform hardening. • Experience with identity and access management and platform security. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Skills: • Appian Lead Developer certification. • Experience working with Appian Support and vendor partners. • Background in financial services or other regulated environments. • Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring tools (Splunk/ELK/AppDynamics, etc.).