Principal Consultant (Public Sector)

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence 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. Are you looking to combine your passion for technology with your penchant for strategic problem solving? Appian Customer success is obsessed with great customer outcomes. We deliver mission-critical business impact fast, and are directly responsible for partnering with our customers to bring their best ideas to life. Joining the Customer Success team will provide you with the support and growth you need to strengthen and evolve your skills within the consulting field. We are seeking a Principal Technical Consultant to join our Customer Success Public Sector team. In this role, you will be engaging with our public sector customers post-sales to develop software solutions on the Appian platform. These applications help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation. Your primary responsibility will be to lead projects and work throughout the entire project life-cycle to define, design, develop and implement custom software and AI solutions usi [... source excerpt omitted ...] r our commercial clients. This includes working within an agile environment to understand our client’s business processes and technical needs, launch new relational data models in production, developing APIs to integrate with multiple systems, partnering with Appian Architects and Technical Delivery Managers, and leading/mentoring consultants through fast-paced software implementations. You’ll brainstorm AI use cases and implement Appian’s AI tools by applying retrieval augment generation (RAG), agentic workflows, prompt engineering and the latest generative models as a part of transforming how customers run their organization. You will also collaborate with client’s technical team [... source excerpt omitted ...] wn. To be successful in this role, you need: Passion for mentoring/developing others and experience leading teams through post-sale software implementation Ability to work with clients to define business processes and gather functional and technical system requirements Excellent communication skills, passion for technology and continuous learning, and affinity for asking “why” and solving the right problems History of success on cross-functional teams; experience building products using agile methodologies (pair programming, stand-ups, planning sessions, and sprints) Basic understanding of object oriented programming, experience working with relational databases and datab