Appian Engineer

Job Summary

Bring your experience designing and building Appian business process workflows to Arrowstreet. We are just getting started with Appian and have a growing queue of business requests from teams across the firm for sophisticated custom solutions. First up are business process solutions for our Investment Services Team in support of critical business workflows that drive high priority investment initiatives. At Arrowstreet, we will be self-hosting Appian in our AWS VPC. Appian will be a mission critical platform requiring high-availability, multi-region support with tight recovery time objectives (RTO). We are seeking an experienced Appian developer to drive solution implementations on our hybrid Arrowstreet/Appian team.

Our objective is to enable our business teams by automating their critical processes, providing well-structured workflows, intuitive interfaces and integrations across multiple systems and teams. The Senior Appian Developer will be joining a high-performing team of software engineers that own and customize Investment-centric solutions at Arrowstreet. You need to be knowledgeable of Appian business process management with hands on experience designing and implementing complicated workflow solutions including external system integrations. Working with our talented AWS Cloud Engineers in Shared Engineering Services, you will design and build Appian solutions and promote across multiple environments into Production. You will be involved in workflow testing, standards definition, adoption and adherence, and provide expertise and leadership supporting solution launch, support and enhancement.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about maximizing the business value that Appian solutions provide and ensuring reliable delivery with outstanding customer experience. They will be excited about AWS cloud solutions and the agile process. All team members are committed to helping each other grow both personally and professionally. We maintain a friendly, collaborative, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude, and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, deploy and enhance custom business workflows managed on a self-hosted AWS Appian platform• Author Appian plug-ins• Define, implement and monitor Appian health checks• Provide leadership through your ideas, insights and know-how to drive successful Appian adoption• Evangelize adoption of the platform through quality service offering and responsiveness• Engage with platform users for UAT and requirements clarification• Engage with users to help with training, support, or troubleshooting• Participate in design sessions, articulate solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions• Define and employ standards and best practices for Appian development and deployment• Mentor other technologists and analyst as they learn and grow on Appian

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Math• 3+ years as Appian development experience, preferably on self-hosted Appian instances having contributed to platform security, enhancements, application deployments, performance tuning and Appian quarterly updates.• Hands-on Java development experience• Experience owning and supporting tier-1 solutions• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with multi-region, HA solutions on AWS Managed Services including EKS, EFS, lambda, S3• Experience integrating Appian with external systems• Evangelist of Appian development best practices and release management practices

We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.