Regional Partner, Technical Success Architect

As a Partner Technical Success Architect supporting EMEA, 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. The Global Alliances and Channels team at Appian is a fast-paced, dynamic organization that plays an integral role in driving Appian's growth globally.

Responsibilities

Guide partner delivery teams across EMEA 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 EMEA 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

Requirements

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 EMEA; 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

Nice to have

Senior or Lead Appian Certification; Proven track record of defining commercially robust, repeatable architecture patterns alongside Product Engineering and Customer Success teams; Experience with enterprise platforms

Benefits

Health coverage; Life and disability insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support; Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP); Retirement/pension plan; Wellness dollars; Lifestyle allowance; Tuition reimbursement; Family-forming benefits; Training and development; Growth opportunities through Appian University and leadership program; Employee-led affinity groups