Location: Russell-Knox Building (RKB) - Quantico, VA
Required Clearance: Active Top Secret
Certifications: None required; Appian Associate, Senior, or Lead Developer preferred
Required Education: High school diploma or GED.
Required Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of experience planning, developing, and delivering Appian interfaces, processes, data models, records, and integrated solutions.

Ailani Wind Joint Venture is seeking a Senior Appian Lead Developer to lead the planning, design, development, configuration, integration, testing, delivery, and sustainment of Appian solutions supporting DAF missions. The lead establishes technical direction and ensures secure, maintainable, and user-centered delivery in IL5 and IL6 environments.
This position leads requirements refinement, architecture and design decisions, development standards, peer reviews, release readiness, defect resolution, and mentoring while remaining hands-on in Appian development.

Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:
•    Serve as technical lead for Appian solution architecture, design, development, integration, testing, release, and sustainment.
•    Lead requirements analysis, backlog refinement, estimation, technical planning, design reviews, and solution demonstrations.
•    Design and build Appian Process Modeler workflows using Smart Services, gateways, subprocesses, exception handling, and reusable patterns.
•    Design and develop responsive SAIL interfaces, forms, dashboards, reports, records, and reusable user-interface components.
•    Design Appian Records and Data Fabric solutions, relational data models, CDTs, queries, and data-access patterns.
•    Integrate Appian with MariaDB, Oracle, SQL-based data sources, JSON services, Web APIs, and Connected Systems.
•    Implement CUI, PII, role-based and row-level security, auditability, and other DAF security and compliance requirements.
•    Establish coding standards, reusable components, source-control practices, review checklists, test expectations, and release controls.
•    Lead code reviews, performance optimization, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, UAT support, and defect resolution.
•    Coordinate with product owners, users, data, cyber, infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams to deliver complete capabilities.
•    Maintain architecture, design, interface, data, security, test, release, user, and sustainment documentation and mentor other developers.
 
Required Qualifications

•    Advanced knowledge of Appian process design, Smart Services, gateways, subprocesses, exception handling, and reusable process patterns.
•    Advanced SAIL development and UI/UX skills for interfaces, forms, reports, dashboards, and reusable components.
•    Advanced knowledge of Appian Records, Data Fabric, relational databases, CDTs, queries, and data modeling.
•    Experience integrating Appian through JSON, Web APIs, Connected Systems, and enterprise data sources.
•    Knowledge of IL5/IL6 development, CUI/PII protection, role-based and row-level security, and DAF compliance requirements.
•    Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery, mentor developers, communicate with stakeholders, and deliver defect-free UAT outcomes.

•    Current Appian Senior Developer or Lead Developer certification.
•    Experience leading Appian delivery in DAF, DoW, IL5, or IL6 environments.
•    Experience with Agile delivery, automated testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and application lifecycle management.
•    Experience establishing Appian centers of excellence, governance, reusable design systems, and performance standards.

 

About Pingwind

PingWind is focused on delivering outstanding services to the federal government. We have extensive experience in the fields of cybersecurity, development, IT infrastructure, supply chain management and other professional services such as system design and continuous improvement. PingWind is a VA CVE certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and SBA HUBZone Certified with offices in Washington DC and Northern Virginia. www.PingWind.com

Our benefits include:

· Paid Federal Holidays
· Robust Health & Dental Insurance Options
· 401k with matching
· Paid vacation and sick leave
· Continuing education assistance
· Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
· Employee Assistance Program through Sun Life Financial EAP Guidance Resources

Salary Range

$95K -132K

The pay range for this job is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) job responsibilities, education, certifications, experience, as well as internal equity mapping and alignment with market data, or other applicable laws.

Veterans are encouraged to apply

PingWind, Inc. does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms, and conditions of employment, or practices on the basis of race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law.