Appian AWS Lead

Job Title: Appian AWS Lead

Job Location: Malvern, PA

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $65hr - $70hr

• We are seeking an experienced Appian AWS Lead to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud-native BPM solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• This role will lead architecture and delivery of Appian-based enterprise platforms, ensuring alignment with cloud best practices, security standards, and operational excellence.

Requirement/Must Have:

• 4 to 6+ years of hands-on 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.
• 3 to 5+ years of AWS architecture and implementation experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch.
• Experience with containerization or Appian on scalable cloud infrastructure is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and automation.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation) experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end Appian + AWS solution architecture, including HA/DR, scalability, and performance.
• Design cloud-native Appian deployments leveraging AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC.
• Define reference architectures, deployment patterns, and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 role-based controls across Appian and AWS.
• Design cost-optimized 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.
• 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.