<div class="content-intro"><p>Here at Appian, our values of <strong>Intensity </strong>and <strong>Excellence </strong>define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.</p></div><h1><strong>Senior Technical Consultant – AI-Powered Process Automation</strong></h1> <h2>As an individual contributor, you will design complex architectures and lead the hands-on engineering of enterprise-grade automation platforms for global industry leaders.</h2> <h2>Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office </h2> <h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <h2>Our Chennai-based Customer Success team serves as an elite engineering hub for global enterprises. We specialize in platform architecture, delivering scalable, high-throughput environments that utilize AI-Powered Process Automation to resolve mission-critical operational bottlenecks.</h2> <h2><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Senior Technical Consultant</strong>, you will focus directly on core hands-on engineering, system design, and technical integration execution. Top technical talent joins Appian in this role to maintain individual contributor focus on complex architectures—building low-latency integrations, optimizing database schemas, and diagnosing deep performance bottlenecks without heavy people-management overhead.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Implement Scalable Platform Architecture:</strong> Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema design, <strong>data modeling</strong>, query performance, and responsive <strong>UX/UI</strong> best practices.</li> <li><strong>Engineered Integrations:</strong> Perform hands-on design, code implementation, and unit testing using <strong>SQL views</strong>, <strong>stored procedures</strong>, and high-concurrency <strong>REST/SOAP web services/APIs</strong>.</li> <li><strong>System-Level Troubleshooting:</strong> Rapidly diagnose performance bottlenecks, memory usage, CPU constraints, and network latency spikes across the web application stack.</li> <li><strong>Performance Profiling & Analysis:</strong> Analyze database execution plans, system logs, and <strong>Locust</strong> load test outputs to isolate and resolve root-cause performance bottlenecks.</li> <li><strong>Technical Quality & Enablement:</strong> Ensure continuous integration and delivery alignment by applying strong <strong>DevSecOps</strong> practices, robust automated testing, and clean coding standards.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Bachelor’s Degree</strong> in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Mathematics.</li> <li><strong>8+ years</strong> of progressive IT experience, including <strong>5+ years</strong> of specialized experience in enterprise web application development, delivery, and deployment.</li> <li><strong>Agile Software Delivery:</strong> Proven hands-on experience developing, configuring, testing, and deploying enterprise-grade software applications in an agile delivery environment.</li> <li><strong>Core Engineering Stack:</strong> Deep technical expertise in <strong>Python</strong> and <strong>SQL</strong>, supplemented by working knowledge of <strong>JavaScript</strong> or <strong>Java</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Data & Middleware Architecture:</strong> Strong experience designing relational data models (<strong>SQL Server</strong>, <strong>Oracle</strong>, or <strong>MariaDB</strong>), custom <strong>APIs</strong>, and middleware/ESB orchestration layers.</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure & Testing:</strong> Practical experience with web application infrastructure, containerization using <strong>Kubernetes</strong>, <strong>DevSecOps</strong> concepts, test automation tools (<strong>Selenium</strong>), and performance/load testing methodologies.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience operating within high-velocity, cross-functional engineering teams.</li> <li>Hands-on exposure to modern <strong>Generative AI</strong> integrations, <strong>LLM</strong> application pipelines, or vector databases.</li> <li><strong>Ecosystem Experience:</strong> We value experience with enterprise platforms such as <strong>Salesforce</strong> or <strong>ServiceNow</strong>, as these skills translate well into our <strong>Enterprise-Grade Orchestration</strong> environment.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Tools and Resources </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires wi