Application Development Lead

Excellent Opportunity for a Application Development Lead !!

Duration: 12 Months

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Location: Geelong

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide authoritative technical leadership and oversight of vendor-delivered Appian solutions, ensuring alignment with TAC's enterprise architecture, technology strategy, security requirements, and engineering standards.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, quality controls, and assurance processes for Appian solution delivery, ensuring all technical artefacts, designs, and deliverables meet defined architectural and non-functional requirements.
• Represent the Appian platform in governance forums, project boards, and stakeholder discussions, providing expert technical advice and insights on solution direction, risks, investment decisions, and delivery readiness.
• Provide architectural leadership for Appian platform solutions and integrations, ensuring seamless interoperability with enterprise applications, APIs, data services, and technology platforms.
• Provide end-to-end technical leadership for the Appian pilot and subsequent platform initiatives, ensuring solutions achieve intended business outcomes and establish a scalable foundation for enterprise adoption.
• Lead the management of technical dependencies, cross-functional coordination, and stakeholder engagement across TAC teams, delivery partners, and third-party providers.
• Guide platform engineering practices, including environment strategy, release management, deployment approaches, DevOps integration, and lifecycle management to support sustainable platform growth.
• Provide expert technical guidance, decision-making, and problem resolution throughout the delivery lifecycle, addressing complex issues and ensuring solution integrity is maintained.
• Establish and embed technical standards, governance practices, and knowledge transfer mechanisms that build TAC's long-term capability to successfully operate, support, and extend the Appian platform.

Relevant Qualifications, Work Experience & Specialised Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• Extensive (7+ years) demonstrated hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise applications on the Appian platform, including in a lead or senior capacity.
• Expert in architecting and building complex multi-tiered applications.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical oversight or assurance of vendor-delivered solutions.
• Strong Appian architecture knowledge: process models, SAIL interfaces, records, CDTs, expression rules, integrations and data management.
• Experience integrating Appian with enterprise systems via REST/SOAP APIs and connected systems.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills across technical and business audiences.
• Experience delivering pilots, MVPs or new-platform implementations.
• Proficient debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Prior experience in Agile projects and processes.

Desirable:

• Appian Lead Developer certification.
• Experience in insurance, government or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, environment management and Appian deployment automation.
• Exposure to broader automation and orchestration technologies (for example RPA, integration platforms).
• Experience establishing in-house low-code delivery capability