Appian Developer, Senior Consultant

Job title: Senior Appian Developer Consultant

Frequency: Variable Hour (As Needed Basis)

Regular Hours: 10 hours minimum a week

Location: Bethesda MD

Clearance: Public Trust

Sponsorship:No sponsorship assistance is available for this position.

Job Overview:LCG is seeking a Senior Appian Developer on a variable hour basis to support a federal health research environment focused on modernizing and sustaining mission-critical business applications for our client at NIH. This role supports the Client in delivering software development enhancement operations and maintenance and SDLC support for administrative and extramural business processes.

The Senior Appian Developer will lead the design development testing deployment and maintenance of Appian-based solutions in a hybrid Agile environment. This individual will work closely with federal project managers business stakeholders architects QA teams and cross-functional development teams to deliver secure scalable accessible and compliant applications that improve the collection processing and dissemination of management administrative and programmatic information.

This position requires strong experience with the full software development life cycle low-code platform development systems integration release management and production support in a regulated federal IT environment.

Key Responsibilities

Appian Solution Development

• Design develop configure enhance and maintain Appian applications in support of client business and administrative processes.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable Appian workflows interfaces process models rules reports and integrations.
• Support all SDLC phases including concept requirements analysis design development testing deployment and operations and maintenance.
• Develop reusable low-code components aligned with modernization goals and enterprise architecture standards.
• Support iterative development demonstrations and in-development testing with business users and federal project managers.
• Support RPA initiatives to resolve customer tickets. Previous experience with RPA.

Requirements and Design

• Participate in requirements elicitation sessions and help document business functional and technical requirements.
• Contribute to Requirements Management Plans Requirements Traceability Matrices system design documents and related SDLC artifacts.
• Facilitate design reviews prototype demonstrations and user feedback sessions prior to implementation.
• Recommend technical approaches alternative solutions and modernization strategies.

Testing Quality and Compliance

• Develop and support unit system integration regression performance and user acceptance testing activities.
• Document track and resolve defects using approved tools such as ServiceNow GitHub or similar platforms.
• Ensure solutions meet Section 508 accessibility requirements and support remediation of identified issues.
• Support quality assurance reviews validation and verification and adherence to SDLC standards and best practices.

Deployment Release and Configuration Management

• Support release planning implementation and migration across development test pre-production and production environments.
• Prepare release documentation including implementation plans release notes and deployment schedules.
• Follow approved configuration management change control and release readiness processes.
• Maintain code baselines and deployment artifacts in approved repositories and tools.

Operations and Maintenance

• Provide production support for Appian applications including issue triage root cause analysis defect resolution and small enhancements.
• Monitor and respond to incidents tickets and operational issues in coordination with help desk PMO infrastructure and stakeholder teams.
• Maintain application documentation user guides quick reference materials and system manuals as needed.
• Support continuous improvement of processes procedures and application support practices.

Collaboration and Project Support

• Work with project managers business stakeholders and other contractors to support project planning delivery risk mitigation and communications.
• Participate in Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall ceremonies stage gate reviews change control boards and release readiness meetings.
• Contribute to status reporting technical briefings and documentation required for federal IT governance and oversight.
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentoring to team members and stakeholders as needed.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 7 years of experience in software development with substantial hands-on experience developing enterprise applications on the Appian platform.
• Backend experience Salesforce.
• MySQL and Maria DB prior experience.
• Demonstrated experience across the full SDLC including requirements analysis design development testing deployment and O&M support.
• Experience building workflow-driven and case management solutions in Appian.
• Experience integrating Appian applications with external systems databases APIs and enterprise services.
• Experience with defect tracking requirements management and release management tools such as ServiceNow and GitHub.
• Experience supporting production systems resolving incidents and implementing bug fixes and enhancements.
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery environments.
• Experience developing documentation such as requirements documents design specifications test plans traceability matrices and user guides.
• Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility quality assurance practices and secure development standards.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams business users PMO staff and federal stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting federal government clients especially within NIH HHS or similarly regulated environments.
• Experience with modernization initiatives involving legacy-to-low-code transformation.
• Experience with SharePoint ServiceNow BP Logix or RPA platforms in mixed-technology environments.
• Experience supporting change management release readiness and configuration management processes.
• Experience contributing to ATO support security documentation and compliance activities.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business Information Technology or a related field required.
• Masters degree in a related field is preferred.

Certifications

Required / Strongly Preferred

• Appian Certified Senior Developer or Appian Certified Lead Developer
• One or more current Appian certifications aligned to the candidates level of experience

Preferred

• Relevant cloud low-code or federal IT/security certifications are a plus.
• Salesforce Development Certifications.

Core Competencies

• Appian development and solution architecture
• Requirements analysis and technical documentation
• SDLC execution and release management
• Production support and incident resolution
• Accessibility and quality assurance
• Stakeholder communication and collaboration
• Process improvement and modernization support

Compensation and Benefits

The projected compensation range for this position is $30/hr to $50/hr benchmarked in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Salary at LCG is determined by various factors including but not limited to role location the combination of education/training knowledge skills competencies certifications and work experience.

LCG offers a competitive comprehensive benefits package which includes health insurance options (medical dental vision) life and disability insurance retirement plan contributions as well as paid leave federal holidays professional development and lifestyle benefits.

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