Senior Technical Consultant

<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><p><strong></strong></p> <h1><strong>Senior Consultant</strong></h1> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Chennai, India | <strong>Work Model:</strong> In Office</p> <p>Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and driving mission-critical business impact. Grounded in our core values of Excellence and Intensity, we act as elite technical advisors to our commercial clients. By joining this high-performance team, you will champion a culture of candid communication and excellence while accelerating global adoption of our<strong> AI-Powered Process Automation platform.</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></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&g