Technical Architect – Appian & Salesforce Platforms

Job Description
NetImpact Strategies is seeking a hands-on Technical Architect to lead customer-facing application development and modernization initiatives. You will work directly with customers to understand their applications, business processes, data, integrations, and modernization objectives, then translate those needs into production-ready architecture and software.
The ideal candidate combines traditional software-engineering depth with hands-on experience building and deploying enterprise applications on Appian and/or Salesforce. This is not a platform-administration or low-code-only role. You will use modern AI-assisted development tools to generate and accelerate code, tests, documentation, and technical analysis while remaining accountable for the security, quality, maintainability, and production readiness of the final solution.
Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery and translate business and mission requirements into solution architectures, technical designs, and implementation plans.

• Assess existing applications, workflows, data, integrations, infrastructure, and modernization constraints.

• Architect and build enterprise applications using Appian, Salesforce, traditional software technologies, cloud-native services, or hybrid approaches.

• Make informed build-versus-platform decisions based on business requirements, platform capabilities, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost.

• Design application components, process workflows, data models, APIs, integrations, identity controls, and deployment approaches.

• Use AI-assisted development tools to analyze applications and generate code, tests, documentation, designs, and modernization artifacts.

• Personally develop critical application components, integrations, APIs, prototypes, and reusable architectural patterns.

• Review, test, refine, and validate AI-generated code and technical artifacts before production release.

• Guide delivery teams through implementation, testing, deployment, production stabilization, and ongoing support.

• Communicate architectural decisions, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly to customers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the required federal suitability or security clearance.

• 10+ years of software development, application architecture, solution architecture, or technical-delivery experience.

• Demonstrated ownership of a significant application from requirements and design through production deployment and ongoing support.

• Strong hands-on engineering experience with Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or comparable enterprise technologies.

• Hands-on experience building and deploying production applications using Appian and/or Salesforce in a large enterprise environment.

• Experience designing APIs, integrations, distributed systems, data solutions, and secure enterprise applications.

• Experience integrating Appian or Salesforce applications with custom software, databases, identity providers, cloud services, and external APIs.

• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, automated testing, security tooling, and production observability.

• Practical experience using AI tools to generate, refactor, test, document, or analyze production software, with disciplined human validation.

• Strong customer-facing discovery, consulting, communication, technical leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Production application-development experience with both Appian and Salesforce.

• Appian certification and experience with process models, records, interfaces, expression rules, integrations, security, and deployment.

• Salesforce experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, platform events, APIs, data architecture, or application security.

• Experience determining when to use enterprise-platform capabilities versus custom Java, .NET, Python, or cloud-native development.

• Federal consulting experience and familiarity with FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, or zero-trust principles.

• Experience with AI coding agents, agentic workflows, MCP, automated evaluation, guardrails, or AI development governance.

About Us
At NetImpact Strategies, we post salary ranges in compliance with the specific labor laws and regulations of each county and state, ensuring transparency and fairness in our hiring practices. This approach reflects our commitment to adhering to legal requirements and promoting equitable pay standards across all regions where we operate. The posted salary range for this role is $172,000-210,000. The posted salary range is not an exact indication of the actual compensation offered and is instead a range of what NetImpact, in good faith, could compensate at the lowest and most high end of the salary market. In general, NetImpact may not pay the top of the salary range. Compensations are determined by several mitigating factors including skillset, experience, trainings, location, and other factors including benefits packages.
Perks of working at NetImpact Strategies
· Your health comes first – we offer comprehensive medical, dental, & vision insurance that starts the first of the month after you join the team
· Invest in your future – 401(k) Plan – Immediately vested employer contributions; no matching required
· Work hard, play hard – we offer a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, one (1) additional day of paid wellness leave per calendar year, and observe ten (10) federal holidays
· Pawsitively pawesome – Pet Insurance (because our little critters are part of our families, too!)
· Invest in your education – Tuition reimbursement, internal training programs, & company-sponsored industry certifications!
· Be part of a dynamic and collaborative work environment recently ranked by The Washington Post as a Top Work Place in 2019, 2021,2022, 2023, & 2024!
· Have fun and celebrate and give back – Team building activities, community volunteering, quarterly HQ days, wellness events, happy hours, family fun events, and more!
NetImpact Strategies Inc. (NetImpact) has been a Trusted Advisor driving impact through digital transformation for the Federal Government for over a decade. We solve complex problems with innovation and agility to create meaningful, transformative, and enduring change. As Trusted Advisors, NetImpact professionals partner with customer agencies to deliver solutions that empower them to not only meet their missions but also realize their strategic vision through agile, outcome-focused solutions addressing both strategic and tactical requirements. We design and implement comprehensive, tailored solutions that are both mindful of the client's culture and organizational dynamics. NetImpact’s core values and commitment to a customer and results-oriented delivery approach has propelled our growth and enabled us to deliver impactful value across Strategic Consulting, Process Automation, Cloud, DevSecOps, Data and Analytics, and Cyber Security for the Federal Government.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE
NetImpact Strategies is committed to complying with all applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended (“ADA”), and applicable state and local laws. It is NetImpact’s policy not to discriminate against any qualified person or applicant with regard to any terms or conditions of employment on the basis of such individual’s disability. Consistent with this policy of non-discrimination, NetImpact will provide reasonable accommodations to an individual with a disability, as defined in the ADA or applicable law, who has made NetImpact aware of his/her disability, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to NetImpact. If you are an applicant and need reasonable accommodation when applying for job opportunities within NetImpact, or request reasonable accommodation to utilize NetImpact’s online employment application, please contact .
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