Purpose-

• The role of a Pega Lead System Architect will have a strong focus placed on analysis and engineering aspects of the Pega Platform. Prepare solution designs that will deliver to a diverse range of business areas within the bank. Lead and assist team through end to end project delivery lifecycle i.e requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance.
• Capable of technically leading multiple squads in delivery of customer focused, integrated solutions.
• Component based; reusable architecture should be core of the solutions they provide.
• Own the governance of the application build and ensuring delivery and Pega guardrails are adhered to.
• They will provide critical thinking and a high degree of technical innovation and attention to detail while being recognized as a trusted advisor to the team and stakeholders.
• As well as the technical skills we are looking for someone who is a great communicator, solutions driven and thrives in working in a team to achieve the project goals.

Essential capabilities-

• Participate in elaboration sessions – Participate in requirement gathering sessions and guide the LBA and the client SMEs to elaborate the requirements, process steps, and objectives.
• Work with other Pega LBAs, and SSAs to improve standards and guidelines.
• Work in agile methodology and support the Manager Engineer to size, manage scope, and highlight risks using stand-ups, burn-down, status reports, retrospectives, etc.
• Highlight risks and assumptions identified during the course of the project.
• Work closely with delivery teams of various applications in ensuring test alignment at the test case level.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, and Resources) to the Manager Engineer.
• Ensure the delivered solution matches customer functional requirements and commits to Customer Success.
• Governance of the application build and ensuring delivery and Pega guardrails are adhered to.

Experience-

• It is expected that the role holder will most likely have the following qualifications and experience:
• 8+ years of Pega Platform experience on software development and delivery for client deliverables
• Experience using the latest version of Pega i.e Version 8 and above
• Experience in full Pega implementation cycle using agile methodology
• Understanding of Pega frameworks for Finance industry and hands-on experience on a few of them