About the role
As a Senior Technical Consultant, you will focus directly on core hands-on engineering, system design, and technical integration execution. Top technical talent joins Appian in this role to maintain individual contributor focus on complex architectures—building low-latency integrations, optimizing database schemas, and diagnosing deep performance bottlenecks without heavy people-management overhead.
What You’ll Do- Implement Scalable Platform Architecture: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema design, data modeling, query performance, and responsive UX/UI best practices.
- Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, code implementation, and unit testing using SQL views, stored procedures, and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs.
- System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly diagnose performance bottlenecks, memory usage, CPU constraints, and network latency spikes across the web application stack.
- Performance Profiling & Analysis: Analyze database execution plans, system logs, and Locust load test outputs to isolate and resolve root-cause performance bottlenecks.
- Technical Quality & Enablement: Ensure continuous integration and delivery alignment by applying strong DevSecOps practices, robust automated testing, and clean coding standards.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Mathematics.
- 8+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years of specialized experience in enterprise web application development, delivery, and deployment.
- Agile Software Delivery: Proven hands-on experience developing, configuring, testing, and deploying enterprise-grade software applications in an agile delivery environment.
- Core Engineering Stack: Deep technical expertise in Python and SQL, supplemented by working knowledge of JavaScript or Java.
- Data & Middleware Architecture: Strong experience designing relational data models (SQL Server, Oracle, or MariaDB), custom APIs, and middleware/ESB orchestration layers.
- Infrastructure & Testing: Practical experience with web application infrastructure, containerization using Kubernetes, DevSecOps concepts, test automation tools (Selenium), and performance/load testing methodologies.
- Experience operating within high-velocity, cross-functional engineering teams.
- Hands-on exposure to modern Generative AI integrations, LLM application pipelines, or vector databases.
- Ecosystem Experience: We value experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow, as these skills translate well into our Enterprise-Grade Orchestration environment.