GSI & Regional Partner Technical Success Architect

THE OPPORTUNITY :

As a Partner Technical Success Architect supporting India, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to top-tier GSIs and enterprise delivery partners. This is a high-visibility, force-multiplier role where your architectural guidance directly impacts complex, mission-critical transformations for major enterprise clients. If you want to scale your technical influence by helping partners architect and deliver top-quality solutions using Appian, this opportunity offers unmatched scope and impact.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Guide partner delivery teams across India to ensure their engineering practices and technical implementations consistently align with Appian’s highest architectural standards.

• Review complex enterprise application designs to ensure platform scalability, security frameworks, performance tuning, and long-term maintainability for mission-critical client deployments.

• Mentor partner technical leads, solution architects, and developers, building high-performing partner teams capable of delivering complex applications independently.

• Collaborate with India partner leads, Appian Customer Success, and Technical Support to diagnose and resolve architecture and performance challenges on high-stakes, strategic accounts.

• Help create and curate reusable design patterns, integration blueprints, and fixes that directly feed into and enhance Appian’s AI tooling for partners.

• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support technical enablement across the global partner community by participating in live technical forums, Q&A sessions, and contributing to practical training and certification assets.

• Work alongside Appian’s Customer Success and Product Engineering teams to vet alternate channel solution architecture designs to ensure they are commercially robust, supportable, and repeatable.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Software Architecture, with a proven track record of designing, building, and deploying large-scale, enterprise-grade systems.

• Deep proficiency in Database Design, API Integrations, Security Frameworks, Performance Tuning, and Cloud Deployment Models.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with GSIs, regional systems integrators, and enterprise delivery teams across India.

• Proven experience conducting architecture reviews, code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices for scalable enterprise platforms.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to command technical respect from partner executives and developer teams.

• Comfortable traveling up to 30% to visit key partner delivery teams, host technical masterclasses, and support critical on-site project discovery.

• Senior or Lead Appian Certification.

Tools and Resource Training and Development:
During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires. Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.
Community: We’ll immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led affinity groups. These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social, educational, and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.