Appian Developer -Manager

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Management Level

Job Description & Summary

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services-solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference-every day.

As an Appian Developer - Manager you will help deliver technology-enabled solutions that support regulatory risk compliance, working within our Risk and Compliance practice to build, configure, and enhance Appian-based applications for client needs. As a Manager you will lead teams, coach junior professionals, manage client workstreams, and use judgment to organize priorities, maintain timelines, and guide delivery with integrity and authenticity. In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will apply your knowledge of process automation, workflow design, and application development to support regulatory compliance objectives, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to solutions that improve how clients manage risk.

Responsibilities

- Demonstrated ability to lead Appian solution architecture, technical design, development standards, design reviews, and delivery governance.

- Leading Appian development workstreams for compliance-oriented client solutions

- Managing project plans, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across assigned engagements

- Guiding team members through configuration, testing, deployment, and production support activities

- Translating regulatory compliance requirements into workflow designs, data models, and application logic

- Developing Appian interfaces, process models, integrations, and reports to support case handling and monitoring

- Reviewing technical designs and code to validate alignment with platform architecture and delivery timelines

- Coordinating issue resolution, risk tracking, and status reporting across client and internal stakeholders

- Coaching junior staff, strengthening delivery skills, and using feedback reviews to improve performance

- Identifying opportunities to streamline compliance operations through automation, analytics, and digital tooling

- Supporting governance, documentation, and control activities for regulated processes and managed services delivery

- Lead application health checks, prioritize findings and technical risks, and drive remediation plans to improve application performance, stability, and maintainability. Lead the design and review of Appian Records, including Record Types, relationships, security, Record Events, and related patterns to ensure scalable, maintainable, and performant solutions.

- Experience leading Agile and Scrum delivery, including estimation, sprint planning, dependency management, release planning, and stakeholder reporting.

What You Must Have

- At least a Bachelor's degree (B.Tech/BE)

- At least 10 - 12 years of experience

- Oral and written proficiency in English required

- Certification Required: Appian Level 3 (Lead Developer) certification is mandatory

- Ability to configure Interactions Hub to support integrations with integrating systems (with preference for systems including SAP, Docusign / Adobe Sign, common SSO tools (e.g., Okta), and PeopleSoft)

- 7+ years of experience working with Appian, including experience leading solution design and delivery teams.

What Sets You Apart

- Experience leading Appian delivery across compliance-focused client work

- Background translating regulatory workflows into Appian applications

- Managing teams through planning, budgeting, and execution cycles

- Coaching team members on system design and delivery decisions

- Applying compliance, governance, and risk monitoring knowledge

- Demonstrating AI fluency, data analysis, and digital tooling experience

- Familiarity in designing, developing / configuring, and testing integrations with Appian

- Strong understanding of Appian UX guidelines, plug-ins, rules engines, platform security, performance optimization, and reusable design patterns. Advanced knowledge of SAIL interface design, process models, records, data fabrics, integrations, SQL databases, stored procedures, object-oriented programming, and service-backed records.

- Ability to own the configuration and enhancement of Interactions Hub based on business and functional requirements, including process models, embedded controls, user interfaces, and integrations.

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