Senior Technical Consultant
Chennai, India · On-site · Full-time
- Posted 1mo ago
- From Appian’s careers page
- Location
- Chennai, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Department
- Customer Service
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What You’ll Do
- Implement Scalable Platform Architecture: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema design, data modeling, query performance, and responsive UX/UI best practices.
- Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, code implementation, and unit testing using SQL views, stored procedures, and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs.
- System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly diagnose performance bottlenecks, memory usage, CPU constraints, and network latency spikes across the web application stack.
- Performance Profiling & Analysis: Analyze database execution plans, system logs, and Locust load test outputs to isolate and resolve root-cause performance bottlenecks.
- Technical Quality & Enablement: Ensure continuous integration and delivery alignment by applying strong DevSecOps practices, robust automated testing, and clean coding standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Mathematics.
- 8+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years of specialized experience in enterprise web application development, delivery, and deployment.
- Agile Software Delivery: Proven hands-on experience developing, configuring, testing, and deploying enterprise-grade software applications in an agile delivery environment.
- Core Engineering Stack: Deep technical expertise in Python and SQL, supplemented by working knowledge of JavaScript or Java.
- Data & Middleware Architecture: Strong experience designing relational data models (SQL Server, Oracle, or MariaDB), custom APIs, and middleware/ESB orchestration layers.
- Infrastructure & Testing: Practical experience with web application infrastructure, containerization using Kubernetes, DevSecOps concepts, test automation tools (Selenium), and performance/load testing methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating within high-velocity, cross-functional engineering teams.
- Hands-on exposure to modern Generative AI integrations, LLM application pipelines, or vector databases.
- Ecosystem Experience: We value experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow, as these skills translate well into our Enterprise-Grade Orchestration environment.
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About Appian
AI automation for critical processesAppian provides AI-powered process automation software for large organizations and governments to connect people, data, systems, and AI workflows.
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