DoD Cloud Solutions Architect

Appian Corporation

McLean (VA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 275,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Appian is seeking a Solution Architect to grow our federal business by designing integrated Appian solutions and compelling offerings for DoW. You will act as a technical leader within the Customer Success team and partner with mission, program, and technology stakeholders to define architectures that connect processes, data, and systems across DoW environments.

The role covers cloud hosting, private cloud, and government cloud integrations, driving sales through differentiated solutions, and

Qualifications

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, and 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.
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
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
Willingness to travel; 10-15% to support customer engagements including SCIF’s

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 DoW customers on how to position Appian as an agility layer that integrates mission and business processes across existing DoW 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 DoW modernization initiatives that connect operational workflows, case management, process automation, and data orchestration across complex enterprise environments.
Demonstrate experience supporting or solutioning within the DoW ecosystems and/or related command, control, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission systems.
Apply familiarity with DoW enterprise systems and modernization programs, including ECMA, GCSS for logistics, GFEBS, LMP, ACWS, and other systems and capabilities managed under CPE ES2.
Work with DoW stakeholders, mission owners, system integrators, and technical teams to shape architectures that respect DoW hosting, cybersecurity, RMF/ATO, data access, integration, and interoperability constraints.
Support DoW-focused capture, proposal, whitepaper, and customer advisory efforts by translating Appian platform capabilities into mission-relevant technical solutions and modernization roadmaps.