Lead Appian Solutions Developer

M&T Bank; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank in the United States is seeking an AppianSolutions Developer SME to join an Agile development team. This lead developer role covers hands-on coding, design, and production support across the application lifecycle.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and QA to deliver secure, scalable Appian solutions and maintain environment health, security modeling, and deployment processes. A strong Appian background is required.

Qualifications

• Requires strong Appian expertise and certifications.
• Experience with Appian 24.1+ and governance of the Appian PaaS environment.
• Proven ability to design, code, test, and deploy in an enterprise banking setting.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance of applications.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Analysts, and UX teams to guide development artifacts.
• Create architecture documentation and technical specifications with traceability.
• Coordinate development tasks and mentor junior team members on projects.
• Stay current with Appian capabilities and implement new features as released.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and risk controls.

Skills

Appian platform

Synced Records

Integration Objects

SAIL UI development

Appian Administration

CI/CD

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

C# .NET

JavaScript

Angular

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Selenium

Azure DevOps

Education

Associate’s degree + 7 years experience

Bachelor’s degree + 5 years experience

Combined 9 years education/experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

ServiceNow

MariaDB/MySQL

MS SQL Server

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview:

This is a position for an AppianSolutions DeveloperSME. The AppianSolutions Developerwillparticipateas a member of an Agile development team andbe responsible fornew application development, enhancements to existing applications,andproductionapplication support. The engineer will be responsible for producing deliverables across the whole application lifecycle including production incident triage and end-user communication,ticketrefinement, sizing and impact analysis on backlog items, design documentation, formal unit testing and test design, deployment and code management, peer reviews, and agile sprint ceremony participation.

AsaLead Solutions Developer, thedeveloperServes as senior-most developer on an agile development team consisting of3-6other developers.Thedeveloperacts asdevelopmentliaison between Product/Business Analysts and Quality Assurance Testers.

This is a hands‑on execution roleaccountable fordevelopment ofapplication code, while ensuringcompliance with corporateandregulatory policies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Development Execution: Hands-ontechnical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Implementnew technologiesandfollowdevelopment standardsbyproperly usingthebank’s existing Appian PaaS environment.Complete and overseebasic to complexsystems analysis,designand development. Play a key role as an individual contributor on complex projects. Maintain an excellent functional understanding of the supported application(s).
• Functional Design: Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts and UX Design teams to produce design artifacts used to guide application development. Useexpertisein Appian platform and Appian-specific capabilities to inform implementation decisions, impacts, task estimations, and quality assurance activities.Understand business processesin order toensure security model implementation reflects best-practice principles such as least-privilege andavoidance of toxic role combinations.
• Technical Architecture and Design: Author systems architecture documentation, technical specifications, and technical tasks aligned to user stories, with traceability to concrete technical components.Createandmaintaindeveloper-friendly documentation that is founded in architecture components, well defined, and easily traced from high to low level detail. Maintainaccuratesystemsdata as part of enterprise-wide technology tracking tools.Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among programs, interfacingapplicationsand platforms.Understand and provide guidance for integration patterns with upstream or downstream systems, both internal and external to the bank.
• TeamCollaboration: Effective formal and informal communicationwith stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, and technology teams.Direct andmonitorless experienced resources and coordinate development tasks on small to large scope projects. This role requiresa significantcollaborationwith multiple team members and stakeholders.
• Innovation: Keep current with latest Appian capabilities and be able to recommend and execute implementation of new features as they are released.
• Compliance: Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management. Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand. Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

No supervisory responsibilities.

Education and Experience Required:

• Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years’ education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years’ solutions development and/or relevant enterprise technology experience
• Expert proficiency in Appian platform. Associate Developer Certification required. Appian Senior or Lead Developer Certification desired. Experience with Appian version 24.1 or newer required. Should be proficient with Synced Records, Integration Objects, and Advanced SAIL UI development. Experience with Appian application administration including process monitoring, memory and resource management, package management and deployment, security modeling, health checks, and Appian Support interaction.

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Figma, ServiceNow
• Database: Hands on experience with relational databases (MariaDB/MySQL or MS SQL Server), with at leastrudimentarycapabilities as a DBA – includingdemonstrated experiencewithdata architecture,table design, query optimizationand performance monitoring, storedprocedure development.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Demonstratedexperience with unit testing of Appian objects and process models. Ability to produce risk-based test plans and guidance to enable QA teams tovalidatework performed.
• Soft Skills: Technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, time-management,cross-functional team coordination,solution demos.
• Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with full stack software engineering, object-oriented languages (preferably C# in .NET, or Java in the case of Appian plugins), front-endJavascript/HTML frameworks (preferably Angular), data access technologies (preferably Entity Framework and SQL), software packaging tools (preferably NuGet and NPM), source code management tools (preferably Gitlab). Some experience with SIEM tools (preferably Splunk) and log management platforms (preferablyKibana).
• Analytics and Reporting: Power BI, Tableau,etc
• Optional Appian-specific Experience: Experience with Case Management Studio, Process HQ, SAML Group/Role Sync, AI Skills including GenAI Prompts.
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, YAML, some DevOps toolsets (Git, GitLab, Artifactory, NuGet, NPM, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, MS Build, or SonarQube), some scripting experience (YAML, PowerShell, Linux/Bash, or Perl).Test Automation (Selenium,Jmeter)
• FinancialIndustry Experience: Some experience with client management, core banking, payments, financial reporting, or fraud/AML management solutions.Institutional Financial Products (Corporate TrustAccounts, Investment Funds, Bonds, Structured Finance, Collateralized Loan Obligations, etc.).

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation. The range listed above corresponds to our national pay range for this role. The specific pay range applicable to you may vary based on your location.

Location

Clanton, Alabama, United States of America