Senior Technical Architect - Remote

ICF; Great Falls Crossing (VA); Remote; USD 143,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advisory and technology services provider seeks a Senior Technical Architect to lead Appian modernization efforts for federal clients. The role encompasses technical leadership, system design, and stakeholder engagement, making it vital for driving digital transformation. Ideal candidates will have extensive Appian experience and proven leadership skills in software development and engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Appian experience including SAIL scripting, process modeling, and deployment.
• 5+ years of technology leadership experience in major modernization projects.
• 1 year experience supporting Appian mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Engages with clients to understand enterprise needs and develop Appian strategies.
• Implements modernization journeys ensuring compliance with best practices.
• Authors technical documentation and governs the architectural direction.

Skills

Appian experience

Custom application development

Technical leadership

Education

Appian Senior Developer certification

Tools

DevSecOps pipelines

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

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Description

ICF's digital transformation and IT modernization division is seeking an experienced Enterprise Appian Architect for opportunities based in support of digital transformation, portfolio modernization, and delivery of enterprise strategies for a diverse set of federal clients. This role is a high visibility technology leadership position requiring an extensive background and operational experience with Appian platform advisory, adoption, migration patterns, architectural engagements, products, services and frameworks, industry standards along with implementations to be applied in a multitude of complex scenarios. Position includes architectural artifact and transitional roadmap development, system and platform topology design, prototyping, with team mentoring in a dynamic client and business partner facing atmosphere.

Description

ICF's digital transformation and IT modernization division is seeking an experienced Enterprise Appian Architect for opportunities based in support of digital transformation, portfolio modernization, and delivery of enterprise strategies for a diverse set of federal clients. This role is a high visibility technology leadership position requiring an extensive background and operational experience with Appian platform advisory, adoption, migration patterns, architectural engagements, products, services and frameworks, industry standards along with implementations to be applied in a multitude of complex scenarios. Position includes architectural artifact and transitional roadmap development, system and platform topology design, prototyping, with team mentoring in a dynamic client and business partner facing atmosphere.

The Work

Support Appian modernization, corporate growth, and on-program implementation initiatives, be responsible for but not limited to architecting, designing, configuring, developing, and troubleshooting, and implementing baseline and custom applications on the platform.

Responsibilities

• Engages the client organization, manages key stakeholders, and fosters relationships to develop a deep and thorough understanding of the enterprise
• Creates a vision, strategy, and produces roadmaps to lead Appian adoption and modernization efforts by applying a proven track record of assessments, target technology and IT landscape specifications, technical asset configuration and multi-phased migration deliveries
• Implements and manages the modernization journey while ensuring adherence to organizational compliance, best practices, and industry standards
• Serves as the primary technological point of contact, responsible for the overarching technical oversight, architecture, and construction efforts
• Develops effective governance, leads technical resources, mitigates risk, monitors quality, security, etc., and ensures success in the execution of these areas
• Participates in, and leads technology evaluations, proofs of concept, client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting and client buy-in
• Coordinates and collaborates on developing requirements and mission outcomes with executive leadership, business stakeholders, various technical teams, contractors, etc.
• Serves as the technical strategy champion, resolving program issues, answering questions, and prescribing adoption of proposed solutions for leadership, staff, and contractors
• Authors required documentation, briefings, SLAs, and technical standards for the architectural runway
• Works closely, leads and coordinates with other architects and additional members of the technical leadership and other program teams
• Engages diverse organizations, industry partners and clients during business acquisition phases and for all capture activities
• Produces technical solutions with detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.
• Provides solution architecture, documents design, codes, develops program logic for new applications, analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications and ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented.
• Analyzes requirements, maintains, tests, and integrates plug-ins and custom application components.
• Produces technical solutions with a detailed narrative for proposal development and supports key personnel requirements during procurement phases such as orals, technical challenges, etc.
• Participates in, and leads formal technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and other R&D activity, providing client demonstrations and various solutioning and educational presentations to assert vetting, making recommendations, and facilitating client buy-in
  
  

Required Skills

• 8+ years of Appian experience including SAIL scripting, process modeling, platform configuration, design, and deployment
• 8+ years of Custom application development on the Appian platform including Custom UI Pages
• 5+ years of technology leadership experience with participation in major modernization and integration projects while designing and architecting large scale applications
• 3+ years of experience serving as an architect on programs leveraging the Appian platform
• 3+ years of experience creating integrations between Appian and other systems using SOAP, REST, and JSON as well as JDBC and file imports
• 3+ years of 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.)
• 3+ years of experience creating technical solutions for proposal
• 3+ years of End-to-end lifecycle experience in re-platforming legacy applications onto the Appian platform
• 2+ years of experience with designing and implementing DevSecOps pipelines and Infrastructure Automation frameworks, using toolsets like Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Cucumber, JMeter, and FitNesse.
• 1 year of experience supporting use cases involving the Appian mobile applications
• Must possess Appian Senior Developer certification
• US Citizenship or Green Card Holder required for this position.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing Appian Smart Service, Component, or Connected System plug-ins is a strong plus
• Appian RPA Pro/RPA + IDP Pro certification is a plus
• Experience implementing systems using the Agile/Scrum methodology
• Administration of an Appian instance including the management of users, groups, and roles, CMS Development, ACLs, business rules, workflows, actions, and policies
• Orchestration and Discovery experience is a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Appian Lead Developer Certification
  
  

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read ourEEO policy.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please [e-mail] we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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Candidate AI Usage Policy

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance [e-mail]. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$143,663.00 - $244,227.00

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