Senior Partner Solutions Technical Lead

Appian is passionate about driving digital transformation by bringing our customers solutions that provide speed, agility, and efficiency needed to better accomplish their mission, compete, and grow. Are you looking to combine your passion for technology with your multidisciplinary interests and intellectual curiosity?  Do you work well in teams, across organizations?  The Appian Solutions Team is obsessed with great customer outcomes. We deliver mission-critical business impact fast, and are directly responsible for ensuring our sales teams and our partners can solve real customer problems in a repeatable fashion.  This role is a unique opportunity to have great internal and external visibility in doing meaningful technical work with our partners to ensure solutions built on Appian achieve great success and repeatability.

About the role:

Appian is seeking a Senior Partner Solutions Technical Lead for our rapidly growing business. As a member of the Global Solutions Team, you will successfully collaborate with different Appian partners around the world to:

• Evaluate partner-developed solution from a technical and architectural perspective

• Share build, integration and implementation best practices with partners around Appian-developed or partner-developed solutions

• Provide technical guidance to partners about how to enhance/augment Appian solutions without jeopardizing the upgrade path

• Work with customers to help them adopt solutions

• Become the solutions team technical expert to address various technical or platform issues and questions that might have a bearing on solutions

What you’ll be doing:

• Engage with partners to discuss the technical aspects of architecting, building, enhancing and integrating solutions across all verticals and geographies

• Coaching partners and members of the solutions team on technical issues relevant for solutions

• Be the technical thought leader within the solutions team at Appian

• Work closely with partners to drive customer adoption of solutions

Required Skills & Desired Background:

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

• 3+ years of Appian built, interaction and implementation experience.  Architect experience is a plus

• Deep Appian knowledge and understanding - Technical depth to respond to all technical elements of solutions build, integration, or architecture

• Sufficient expertise to lead conversations and engage at senior levels within Appian or our partner ecosystem

• Good communications, presentation and listening skills with a history of success working cross-functionally

• Passion for technology and continuous learning, and affinity for asking “why” and solving the right problems

• Able to build rapport and build/grow and maintain relationships with people of very different backgrounds

• Experience with systems integrators, and other types of partners (VAR, reseller, consulting firms, etc.) preferred

• Good analytical and problem solving skills

• Able to take initiative

• Able to motivate and influence others

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time 

• Intellectually curious / eager to learn

• Outcomes-focused

• Organized and structured but also able to think creatively

• International experience or background are a plus

• Preference for candidates in the Washington D.C. area 

Appian helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help companies maximize their resources and improve business results. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. Our employees create opportunities to drive hands-on impact both with our customers and throughout the organization, which creates an environment where meaningful work is met with career growth and opportunity. As a result, we are proud to have been recognized as a  Washington Post Top Workplace  for seven consecutive years. Simply put, we are changing the way businesses operate and our employees are to thank for Appian’s success.

Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co‐worker,  Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination .   

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at  [email protected]  and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.