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R2 – Specialist, HAI Platforms
The Opportunity

•Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
•Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
•Drive innovation and execution excellence. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the growth, success, and well-being of our people to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging, to managing critical emergencies. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview
We are seeking a Specialist Platform Engineer – BPM Platforms (Appian) to join our HAI Platforms group within the Digital Foundation division under the CTO Organization.
In this role, you will:
•Contribute as a BPM / Appian engineer supporting the design, development, deployment, and operations of BPM solutions.
•Apply modern DevOps and CI/CD practices to enable reliable, repeatable delivery of BPM solutions on cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS).
•Collaborate closely with architects, product teams, operations, and other platform engineers to deliver robust, scalable, and secure BPM capabilities.
•Develop platform features to high engineering standards, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation.
This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to grow your technical depth, contribute to platform standards and best practices, and help evolve BPM capabilities across the enterprise.

Responsibilities
BPM / Appian Engineering
•Design, develop, and maintain BPM applications using the Appian platform, including process models, records, interfaces, data models, Data Fabric and integrations.
•Follow established Appian setup/configuration and design standards; contribute ideas for optimization and reusable components.
•Implement business process models and workflows following BPMN concepts, ensuring alignment with business requirements and compliance guidelines.
•Help build reference implementations and reusable components to standardize common patterns across teams.

2. Integration & Architecture
•Implement integrations between Appian and other enterprise systems using RESTful APIs, SOAP services patterns.
•Work with solution and enterprise architects to understand end-to-end solution designs and implement your part according to standards.
•Collaborate with data teams to model and manage data used by BPM applications (Appian data types, SQL databases, external data sources)

3. Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps
•Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or similar) to automate build, test, deployment, and release processes.
•Apply DevOps principles to improve reliability and observability of the BPM platform (monitoring, logging, alerting).
•Leverage core AWS services in implementation work, including:
•Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda (exposure to EKS is a plus)
•Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53
•Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
•Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager

4. Platform Operations & Governance
•Support and troubleshoot issues across environments (dev/test/prod), helping to maintain high availability and performance of BPM applications.
•Work with operations and security teams to follow enterprise standards, including Zero Trust, IAM roles, IP whitelisting, and other security controls.
•Follow and help refine development standards, coding guidelines, branching strategies, and deployment practices for BPM solutions.
5. Collaboration, Enablement & Best Practices
•Work with business stakeholders and product owners to understand requirements and translate them into Appian designs with guidance as needed.
•Help socialize BPM concepts and demonstrate the capabilities of the Appian platform to business and IT stakeholders (demos, show-and-tells, knowledge-sharing).
•Contribute to documentation of solutions, standards, architecture decisions, and runbooks to support ongoing operations and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications Required
•Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
Appian / BPM
•At least 2–3 years of hands-on development experience with Appian, including:
•Process model design and implementation
•Interface and record design
•Data modeling within Appian
•Basic deployment and environment management
•Experience in business process modeling and understanding of how BPM integrates with enterprise applications and data.
Programming & Data
•One to two years of experience in programming/scripting in at least one language such as Java or JavaScript, with familiarity in Object-Oriented programming concepts.
•At least one year of Experience with SQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS), including writing queries and working with relational data models.

Cloud & Infrastructure
•Practical experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS), with hands-on exposure to some of:
•Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda
•Networking: VPC, load balancers (ALB/NLB)
•Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
•Security: IAM (roles/policies), KMS, Secrets Manager
•Basic understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns (microservices, configuration management, observability) is a plus, not a strict requirement.
DevOps & IaC
•Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or similar.
•Exposure to Infrastructure as Code with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation; ability to read and modify existing templates.
•Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and concepts to support production operations.

Security & Mindset
•Understanding of core enterprise security concepts, including:
•IAM roles and policies
•Network security basics (security groups, IP whitelisting)
•Managed identities and secrets management
•Strong problem-solving skills with an engineering-first mindset; focus on automation over manual work.
•Effective communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders.
•Self-driven and proactive, with a willingness to learn and take ownership of tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred
•Appian certification(s) (e.g., Appian Certified Associate Developer or higher).
•Deeper experience with BPMN and process improvement methodologies.
•Familiarity with broader monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring/logging solutions.
•Experience working in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial services) is a plus.
•Exposure to or interest in AI and automation platforms, including integrating BPM workflows with AI services or APIs.
This role represents an exceptional opportunity to lead and influence the future of BPM platforms within our organization. If you're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to accelerate healthcare innovation and thrive in a strategic leadership role, we invite you to apply!

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03/18/2026

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