Regional Partner Technical Success Architect

Appian•McLean, VA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Appian is seeking a Regional Partner Technical Success Architect for North America to elevate the technical competencies of our partner ecosystem. This role is crucial for accelerating revenue growth and delivering transformational AI-Powered Process Automation solutions to enterprise customers. The Global Alliances and Channels team is a fast-paced, dynamic organization focused on driving Appian's global growth. This high-impact technical group aims to enhance partner technical abilities and expertise to deliver market-leading solutions. Your work will directly influence partner capability, customer satisfaction, and Appian's market expansion through channel revenue. As a Partner Technical Success Architect, you will be a trusted technical advisor to top-tier GSIs and enterprise delivery partners, providing architectural guidance for complex, mission-critical transformations for major enterprise clients. This role offers unmatched scope and impact for scaling technical influence by helping partners architect and deliver top-quality solutions using Appian.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
7+ years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Software Architecture, with a proven track record of designing, building, and deploying large-scale, enterprise-grade systems.
Deep proficiency in Database Design, API Integrations, Security Frameworks, Performance Tuning, and Cloud Deployment Models.
Demonstrated experience collaborating with GSIs, regional systems integrators, and enterprise delivery teams across North America.
Proven experience conducting architecture reviews, code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices for scalable enterprise platforms.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to command technical respect from partner executives and developer teams.
Comfortable traveling up to 30% to visit key partner delivery teams, host technical masterclasses, and support critical on-site project discovery.

Nice To Haves

Senior or Lead Appian Certification is strongly preferred.
Proven track record of defining commercially robust, repeatable architecture patterns alongside Product Engineering and Customer Success teams.
Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

Guide partner delivery teams across North America to ensure their engineering practices and technical implementations consistently align with Appian’s highest architectural standards.
Review complex enterprise application designs to ensure platform scalability, security frameworks, performance tuning, and long-term maintainability for mission-critical client deployments.
Mentor partner technical leads, solution architects, and developers, building high-performing partner teams capable of delivering complex applications independently.
Collaborate with North American partner leads, Appian Customer Success, and Technical Support to diagnose and resolve architecture and performance challenges on high-stakes, strategic accounts.
Help create and curate reusable design patterns, integration blueprints, and fixes that directly feed into and enhance Appian’s AI tooling for partners.
Provide technical subject matter expertise and support technical enablement across the global partner community by participating in live technical forums, Q&A sessions, and contributing to practical training and certification assets.
Work alongside Appian’s Customer Success and Product Engineering teams to vet alternate channel solution architecture designs to ensure they are commercially robust, supportable, and repeatable.