Appian Technical Lead

at  Synergy BIS

Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting-edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Synergy’s core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low-Code/No-Code solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re-Engineering.
Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including group medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k) with immediately vested company match, PTO/Sick Leave, 11 paid federal holidays, company paid life, short-term and long-term disability insurance, tuition and training reimbursement, fitness/wellness reimbursement, a referral bonus program, and life management programs.
At Synergy, you’ll be challenged and given the opportunity to grow in your career path. In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that you will have dedicated career coaches available for every employee, company-funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open-door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast-paced, and quality-driven—if that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you!
This position is designated as work-from-home.

DESCRIPTION:

As an Appian Technical Lead, you will be expected to:

• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development, and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems in the subject matter area.
• Make recommendations and advise on organization-wide system improvements, optimization or maintenance efforts in the following specialties: information systems architecture, networking, telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling/simulation.

Commensurate experience in IT and in new and older related technologies will be assessed to evaluate your qualifications for this role.

Essential Functions & Duties:

• Focus on business logic and process flows, working on the design and development of business logic, process models/flows and UI screens to implement in a BPM (Business Process Management)-based system.
• Work closely with Business Analyst to investigate customers’ requirements, prototype business solutions, and validate user story acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate closely with team members to ensure proper implementation of fixes, unit testing, and configuration management.
• Review Appian development and sign off on design and implementation.
• Develop and maintain Appian Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, including plug-in development.
• Develop Structured Query Language (SQL), update data models and implement common database best practices (indexes, triggers, and data structure).
• Unit testing, technical problem determination and debugging.
• Manage daily work in the Atlassian suite of applications (Jira, Confluence).
• Coordinate with DevOps team member to ensure timely and reliable release to customer.
• Ensure software maintains data integrity, security and best practice standards.
• Mentor junior BPM developers to improve capabilities of the team.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS OF BEST CANDIDATES:

• Appian software development experience.
• Experience in BPM (Appian, JBoss BPMS, Activiti, Oracle or IBM BPM, Pega, etc.).
• Current Appian credentials as Designer, Lead Designer or Developer.
• Using one or more Appian add-on tools, such as Expression Unit Tests, Deployment Automation Manager, FitNesse test creation, SAIL UI and Smart Services. Appian 7.x/20.x version design, implementation and ability to translate software requirements specifications into Appian applications and prototype.
• Knowledge of Appian software design, web development and design languages. Understanding and hands-on experience with Agile software development methodologies. Strong desire to learn customer business processes.
• Strong analytical, communication skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Highly adaptable to rapidly changing environments and situations.
• Effectively prioritizes work and has well-honed problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter with strong self-management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Customer service oriented.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Adaptable, dependable and independent.

Essential Functions & Duties:

• Focus on business logic and process flows, working on the design and development of business logic, process models/flows and UI screens to implement in a BPM (Business Process Management)-based system.
• Work closely with Business Analyst to investigate customers’ requirements, prototype business solutions, and validate user story acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate closely with team members to ensure proper implementation of fixes, unit testing, and configuration management.
• Review Appian development and sign off on design and implementation.
• Develop and maintain Appian Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, including plug-in development.
• Develop Structured Query Language (SQL), update data models and implement common database best practices (indexes, triggers, and data structure).
• Unit testing, technical problem determination and debugging.
• Manage daily work in the Atlassian suite of applications (Jira, Confluence).
• Coordinate with DevOps team member to ensure timely and reliable release to customer.
• Ensure software maintains data integrity, security and best practice standards.
• Mentor junior BPM developers to improve capabilities of the team