About This Role
This leadership role provides hands-on engineering leadership and delivery oversight across Appian (LowCode BPM), Talend (Data Integration), and SQL-based data platforms. It is critical for improving release predictability, production stability, and engineering quality across globally distributed teams, combining deep technical foundations with exceptional leadership, delivery discipline, and stakeholder management. The Associate Director is accountable for the reliability and sustainability of enterprise-grade solutions, setting standards, enforcing rigor, coaching teams, and partnering with business and technology stakeholders to ensure scalable, resilient, and high-quality outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provide clear technical vision and strategic direction across Appian, Talend, and SQL-based platforms
- Establish and enforce solution architecture standards, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices
- Serve as the senior technical authority, reviewing designs and challenging solutions that introduce delivery, scalability, or operational risk
- Drive consistent adoption of enterprise engineering principles, including modularity, reusability, performance, and security-by-design
- Own end-to-end delivery accountability, from solution design through development, testing, release, and production stabilization
- Address historical delivery issues by strengthening release readiness, defect prevention, and root-cause remediation practices
- Implement and govern SDLC controls, including design reviews, code quality standards, testing expectations, and production readiness criteria
- Actively manage delivery risk, dependencies, and cross-team coordination, particularly across globally distributed teams
- Ensure predictable delivery through strong planning discipline, execution tracking, and escalation management
- Drive a quality-first culture, prioritizing defect prevention over detection
- Partner with QA and DevOps teams to improve test automation, CI/CD maturity, deployment reliability, and rollback strategies
- Analyze production issues and missed delivery commitments to identify systemic gaps and implement sustainable corrective actions
- Define and track engineering metrics (e.g., defect leakage, release stability, cycle time) to continuously improve delivery performance
- Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary, global engineering teams, including Appian BPM developers, Talend data integration engineers, and SQL / data engineers
- Provide technical leadership for Appian-based workflow, BPM, and low-code solutions
- Provide technical leadership for Talend ETL / ELT pipelines and data integration architecture
- Provide technical leadership for SQL data modeling, performance tuning, and optimization for enterprise workloads
