Description

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)

Education

Any Graduate