Appian AWS Lead

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design - Lead endtoend Appian + AWS solution architecture, including HA/DR, scalability, and performance.

Design cloudnative Appian deployments leveraging AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC.
Define reference architectures, deployment patterns, and nonfunctional requirements (NFRs).

Appian Platform Leadership - Lead development of Appian applications using Appian objects (SAIL, Records, Interfaces, Process Models, Expressions, Integrations).

Enforce Appian best practices for performance, maintainability, and security.
Oversee integrations with external systems via REST/SOAP, APIs, and messaging.

Cloud Engineering & Operations - Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.

Drive CI/CD pipelines for Appian using Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Appian environments using AWS CloudWatch, logging, and alerting.

Security, Compliance & Governance - Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, including IAM, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets management, and audit logging.

Support risk, compliance, and audit requirements (SOC, SOX, internal governance models as applicable).
Implement secure access patterns and rolebased controls across Appian and AWS.

Cost Optimization & Reliability - Design costoptimized AWS architectures, balancing performance, availability, and spend.

Implement monitoring and recommendations for AWS cost optimization and capacity planning.
Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management - Lead and mentor Appian and cloud engineers across onshore/offshore teams.

Act as a technical SPOC for clients, product owners, and enterprise architects.
Support solutioning, estimations, and technical inputs for proposals and SOWs.

Required Skills & Experience

Appian

4 to 6+ years of handson Appian development and platform leadership
Strong experience in Appian integration design, data modeling, and performance tuning
Appian platform administration and deployment experience is a plus

AWS & Cloud

3 to 5+ years of AWS architecture and implementation experience
Strong handson experience with EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch
Experience with containerization or Appian on scalable cloud infrastructure is a plus

DevOps & Engineering

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and automation
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
Strong troubleshooting and production support skills"