Solution Architect (Army)

Appian Corporation • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Appian is seeking a Solution Architect to support its federal business, focusing on the U.S. Army. This role involves working closely with customers to design integrated solutions using Appian's cloud-based platform technology. The Solution Architect will act as a key technical leader and trusted advisor to Army stakeholders, defining integrated Appian solutions that align with Army modernization priorities. The position requires leveraging Appian's platform capabilities, including process automation, case management, integration, and Data Fabric, to enhance mission outcomes across various Army domains such as business, logistics, readiness, acquisition, and enterprise information environments. The role also involves advising on technical design, architecture, and implementation on customer-hosted solutions, supporting the sales cycle with compelling technical solutions, and presenting complex technical concepts to customers. Additionally, the Solution Architect will assist with configuration, testing, deployment, and operations of Appian applications using agile methodologies, and guide clients on development practices, program management, governance, and DevSecOps. A key aspect of the role is to lead the definition and development of Appian Customer Success innovations and offerings, collect and distill technical challenges into best practices, and support the development of whitepapers and proposals. The Solution Architect will advise Army customers on positioning Appian as an agility layer for integrating mission and business processes, and design Appian-based solution architectures for modernization initiatives. Experience supporting the Army C5ISR ecosystem and familiarity with Army enterprise systems like ECMA, GCSS-Army, GFEBS, LMP, and ACWS are important. The role requires working with Army stakeholders to shape architectures that adhere to Army hosting, cybersecurity, RMF/ATO, data access, integration, and interoperability constraints.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience advising customers on design and implementation of government cloud computing platforms
• At least 10 years of multi-tier application design and architecture
• Experience with architecting secure cloud based hosting solutions for federal customers using Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Leadership experience designing, architecting or delivering one or more enterprise-level cloud environments (e.g. C2S, JWICS, GovCloud, etc.)
• Experience authoring federal proposals and whitepaper is required
• In depth experience, managing federal programs and projects and leading IT delivery using agile frameworks, tooling and methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe
• Possession of or ability to obtain a US government public trust and/or DoD clearance.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Guiding client enterprise architecture teams as needed during the design and implementation of scalable solutions
• Excellent problem solving skills and talent for identifying creative solutions
• Ability to identify and lead the creation of market offerings, and lead the formulation of corporate capabilities and intellectual property
• Certified Scrum Master or other agile certifications, required

Nice To Haves

• Experience accelerating IT solution under the federal government’s Risk Management Framework is preferred
• Experience with designing and implementing DevSecOps pipelines and Infrastructure Automation frameworks, using toolsets like Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Cucumber, JMeter, and Fitnesse, preferred
• AWS, Google, or Azure Certifications is a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, preferred
• TS/SCI with CI Poly strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Advise customers on the technical design, architecture and implementation of Appian solutions on a customer’s private cloud or on-premise hosting solution, and/or integrating Appian government cloud offerings with the customer’s infrastructure
• Support the sales cycle through the creation of high-value, differentiated solutions, based on Appian’s technology, that integrates and defines program and project management disciplines with a compelling technical solution and delivery roadmap
• Present and vet integrated solutions and complex technical concepts and designs to our customers and other audiences
• Support customers on the configuration, testing, deployment and operations of Appian applications, following agile delivery methodologies and Appian best practices
• Work with clients on all aspects of their program to drive technical success and efficiency, including advising of development practice, program management and governance and delivery automation (version control, configuration management, and other DevSecOps and Infrastructure Automation practices)
• Lead the definition and development of Appian Customer Success innovations and offerings in order to support leading Appian delivery capabilities, and bring together emerging requirements and practices from our customers and industry
• Collect and review technical challenges with a team of architects and distill into common best practices and common solutions
• Support the development and review of whitepapers and pre-sales solutioning and proposals
• Advise Army customers on how to position Appian as an agility layer that integrates mission and business processes across existing Army systems of record, using Appian features such as Data Fabric to unify, relate, and act on data without requiring wholesale replacement of existing platforms.
• Design Appian-based solution architectures for Army modernization initiatives that connect operational workflows, case management, process automation, and data orchestration across complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrate experience supporting or solutioning within the Army C5ISR ecosystem and/or related command, control, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission systems.
• Apply familiarity with Army enterprise systems and modernization programs, including ECMA, GCSS-Army for logistics, GFEBS, LMP, ACWS, and other systems and capabilities managed under CPE ES2.
• Work with Army stakeholders, mission owners, system integrators, and technical teams to shape architectures that respect Army hosting, cybersecurity, RMF/ATO, data access, integration, and interoperability constraints.
• Support Army-focused capture, proposal, whitepaper, and customer advisory efforts by translating Appian platform capabilities into mission-relevant technical solutions and modernization roadmaps.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match
• flexible time off
• paid parental leave
• medical, dental, and vision plans
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• wellness programs
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings account contributions
• an employee referral bonus program
• learning and development resources
• equity awards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• retirement/pension plan
• wellness dollars
• tuition reimbursement
• family-forming benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior