Senior Appian Engineer

Job Title: Senior Appian Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
Experience: Minimum 5+ Years
Employment Type: W2 Only

Job Description:

The Senior Appian Engineer plays a critical role in the development and enhancement of MBM’s platform, which powers specialty care management solutions supporting health plan partners and their members. This role is responsible for implementing features, enhancements, and maintenance activities across all phases of the software development lifecycle. As the individual grows in this position, opportunities exist to advance into architecture and team management roles.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Collaborate with customers to identify and refine business innovations and new concepts.

·        Work closely with internal teams to define new enterprise platform capabilities and business workflows.

·        Analyze, design, implement, and configure application requirements using Appian platform components.

·        Evaluate and adopt emerging Appian technologies and features.

·        Develop robust, reusable, scalable, and reliable Appian components.

·        Ensure system assets comply with access control, security, and compliance standards.

·        Contribute ideas to enhance and extend platform capabilities.

·        Own and maintain Appian Center of Excellence (CoE) documentation including:

o   Best practices

o   Standards & guidelines

o   Procedures

·        Mentor and support team members by sharing knowledge and expertise.

·        Continuously improve team processes and collaboration effectiveness.

·        Participate in cross-functional development efforts to ensure platform integration across products and services.

·        Conduct technical design reviews and code reviews.

·        Ensure unit testing meets defined test plans and system testing is completed successfully.

·        Support release lifecycle activities including environment promotion and configuration.

·        Coordinate on-call support and ensure effective system monitoring.

·        Maintain development environments.

·        Facilitate requirement clarification sessions, design workshops, code reviews, and troubleshooting discussions.

·        Support vendor evaluation processes.

Required Qualifications:

·        BA/BS degree or equivalent technical institute training.

·        Strong understanding of end-user application development best practices.

·        Minimum 5+ years of experience as an Appian Designer OR Equivalent experience with other low-code platforms or web development technologies.

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

·        Strong understanding of software design patterns.