Appian BPM DeveloperEmployment Type: Contract-to-Hire (6-month contract with potential direct-hire conversion)Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per weekWork Locations: Jersey City, NJ | Dallas, TX | Tampa, FLExperience Required: 8+ years in Java/J2EE and BPM developmentWork Authorization: U.S. Citizens and Green Card holdersWe are seeking an experienced Appian BPM Developer with strong expertise in Business Process Management (BPM), Appian application development, and enterprise workflow automation.
The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience migrating existing BPM applications from another BPM platform to Appian. This role requires a combination of technical development expertise, migration strategy, solution planning, and cross-functional communication.
The selected professional will be responsible for developing and implementing Appian-based BPM solutions, defining migration strategies, planning delivery activities, and coordinating with business stakeholders, architects, development teams, and other technical groups.
Candidates must have experience working with both Appian Cloud and on-premises environments.Key Responsibilities
1. BPM and Appian Development
- Design, develop, configure, and implement enterprise BPM applications using the Appian platform.
- Develop and maintain Appian process models, SAIL interfaces, rules, records, and integrations.
- Build scalable workflow automation and case management solutions.
- Develop reusable application components and business process workflows.
- Optimize existing Appian applications for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
2. BPM Platform Migration to Appian
- Lead or contribute to migration initiatives involving the transition of existing BPM applications from other BPM platforms to Appian.
- Assess existing BPM applications, workflows, integrations, business rules, and dependencies.
- Develop migration strategies, technical approaches, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
- Identify migration risks, technical gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for process optimization.
- Define migration phases, milestones, resource requirements, testing strategies, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate with business and technical teams to ensure successful migration and deployment.
Important:Hands-on experience migrating applications from another BPM platform to Appian is mandatory. General Appian development experience without BPM-to-Appian migration experience will not be sufficient.
3. Appian Cloud and On-Premises
- Design, develop, deploy, and support Appian applications across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Understand deployment architecture, environment configuration, application connectivity, and integration requirements.
- Support application migration, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Work with cloud infrastructure and enterprise technology teams to address environment-specific requirements.
4. Enterprise Integration and Architecture
- Develop and maintain REST API integrations and enterprise system interfaces.
- Work with microservices architectures and distributed application environments.
- Integrate Appian applications with enterprise databases and external systems.
- Collaborate with solution architects and technical teams on application design and integration patterns.
- Work with Oracle and Snowflake databases.
5. Delivery Planning and Stakeholder Coordination
- Take ownership of the technical migration strategy and delivery planning.
- Coordinate with business analysts, architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate technical discussions, planning sessions, design reviews, and project status meetings.
- Communicate technical requirements, project risks, dependencies, and delivery progress clearly.
- Support delivery estimation, resource planning, prioritization, and execution.
6. DevOps and Cloud Technologies
- Support application build, deployment, and release processes.
- Work with Git, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Participate in CI/CD pipeline implementation and deployment automation.
- Collaborate with AWS teams on cloud-based application deployments and integrations.
7. AI-Assisted Development and Documentation
- Utilize AI-assisted development and productivity tools such as AWS Kiro, Amazon Q, and Microsoft Copilot.
- Leverage AI tools for development assistance, documentation, troubleshooting, and productivity improvement.
- Follow enterprise security, governance, and development standards when using AI tools.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Java/J2EE development and BPM platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with the Appian BPM platform.
- Mandatory experience migrating applications or workflows from another BPM platform to Appian.
- Experience defining and executing BPM migration strategies and delivery plans.
- Hands-on experience with Appian process models, SAIL, rules, interfaces, records, and integrations.
- Experience with both Appian Cloud and on-premises environments.
- Strong understanding of enterprise BPM workflows, process automation, and case management.
- Experience with REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations.
- Database integration experience with Oracle and/or Snowflake.
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, Maven, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across business and technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading or coordinating enterprise BPM modernization initiatives.
- Experience migrating complex, large-scale workflows and integrations to Appian.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as AWS Kiro, Amazon Q, and Microsoft Copilot.
- Understanding of UI/UX design principles, usability, and responsive application interfaces.
- Experience working in large enterprise environments with distributed teams.
Flexible work from home options available.