Solution Architect- Appian

Brainhunter is currently seeking the services of a “Appian Solution Architect” for a contract role with one of our Valued Clients.

Role profile description:

Our prestigious client is looking to hire a Appian / IBM CP4BA Solution Architect reporting to the Director Technical Solution. The Solution Architect will collaborate with Portfolio, Technology, and Business teams to design and deliver end-to-end intelligent process automation solutions leveraging Appian and/or IBM Cloud Pack for Business Automation (CP4BA). This role will focus on workflow orchestration, case management, decision automation, integration architecture, and low-code platform governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business outcomes. The architect will also lead platform strategy, reusable components, and automation roadmaps, while enabling rapid delivery through low-code capabilities and DevOps practices. They will work to define and maintain architecture artifacts for supporting project delivery and application support and lead technical vision and direction for solutions, ensuring consistency with overall enterprise and portfolio architecture that may at times include hands-on development ( Proof of Concept and project development). The Solution Architect will also have an opportunity to effect change within the organization by incorporating new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.

What you will do

• Design, define and facilitate a solution architecture that leverages enterprise capabilities and efficient usage of process, technology, data and people to align these capabilities.
• Design and deliver end-to-end BPM and case management solutions using Appian / CP4BA.
• Leverage organizational standards and architecture guiding principles to define infrastructure non-functional requirements and assure technical solution adherence to these guidelines.
• Leads the definition of and maintains the technical architecture(s) in collaboration with EA for the architectural decisions, solution architecture, technical vision and supports the development of technology roadmaps.
• Focal point for significant infrastructure and development issues ensuring quality designs.
• Proactively identifies opportunities where solutions can enhance organizational efficiency.
• Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends.
• Fosters a high-performance culture for staff in the architecture team and engineering.
• Works closely with all team members to create solutions that accommodates future architectural changes and designs.

Any specific tools/skillset:

• Bachelor Computer Science / Software Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in complex IT environments especially in the areas of application development and integrations.
• 4+ years of experience in hands-on cloud solution architecture and solution design with good understanding of Enterprise Design Patterns
• Knowledge of Microservices architecture, PaaS-based architectures and SaaS-based applications; Experience designing and leveraging Cloud PaaS and SaaS solutions.
• Values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to utilize an iterative or agile approach.
• Advanced level of analysis of the big picture while maintaining a level of detail appropriate to the context of a variety of situations.
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions as well as with vendors

Assets

• Experience in the financial services industry or in a similar complex and regulated industry.
• Experience with Hyperconverged Infra, Infrastructure as Code (IaC); Automation Platforms; Cloud service offering IaaS & PaaS-based architectures. Experience with Container platforms
• Experience working with at least one of the major public cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and a willingness to continue to expand your knowledge.
• Knowledge working with technologies such as Terraform, Ansible or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Knowledge with CI/CD tooling such as Gitlab, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault etc.
• Architectural experience using modelling languages and frameworks (UML, TOGAF, ArchiMate, 4+1 View Model, etc), architecture practices and principles in Business, Information (data), Application, Technology, and Security architecture disciplines.
• Experience in, and understanding of, Scrum, Kanban and Agile values and principles
• Understanding of continuous architecture and value stream approach to business solutions