Key Skills: Pega Developer
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee the end-to-end technical delivery of multiple agile squads working on Pega solutions.
- Architect and design component-based, reusable, scalable solutions on the Pega platform.
- Participate in and guide requirement gathering and elaboration sessions with business stakeholders, SMEs, and LBAs.
- Own and enforce Pega guardrails and governance practices to ensure solution quality and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with other architects, delivery teams, and platform stakeholders to align with enterprise architecture standards.
- Ensure Pega applications meet functional and non-functional requirements including scalability, performance, and security.
- Develop and maintain documentation, technical specifications, and design artefacts.
- Mentor and guide junior developers and SSAs, ensuring uplift in technical capability and quality of delivery.
- Support project planning and risk management activities by estimating effort, identifying scope changes, and raising risks.
- Conduct code reviews, retrospectives, and design walkthroughs, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in collaboration with support and engineering teams.
- Support test alignment at the test case level and ensure traceability across development and QA phases.
- Engage in incident resolution and production support as part of "fail and fix" activities for assigned applications.
Essential Capabilities:
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide multiple delivery squads and align efforts across teams.
- Hands-on experience in Pega platform (v8 and above) with full-cycle implementation experience.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Deep understanding of Pega frameworks relevant to the financial industry.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adept at working in Agile environments, using Jira, Confluence, burn-downs, and retrospectives.
Skills Required:
- 8+ years of experience in Pega-based software development and project delivery.
- Proven experience with Pega frameworks, integrations, and DevOps automation.
- Familiarity with cloud deployment, scalability, and enterprise security practices is an advantage.
- Strong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and debugging skills.
- High attention to detail and commitment to solution excellence and innovation.
Key Decisions:
- Defining the technical direction of assigned initiatives and managing trade-offs in design decisions.
- Managing scope, risks, and dependencies during the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring architectural compliance with internal governance and industry standards.
Key Stakeholder Groups:
- Manager Engineer
- Product Owners / Business Analysts
- Enterprise Architects
- Scrum Masters / Release Train Engineers
- Head of Technology
Key Performance Indicators:
- Timely delivery of initiatives from inception through deployment.
- Recognition as a key contributor to innovation and automation efforts.
- Demonstrated cost savings via process simplification and solution reuse.
- Strong stakeholder relationships and being a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technology field.
- Pega Certified Lead System Architect (LSA) - Mandatory (Parts I & II)