Pega Developer SME

About the role

Fusion Technology is a performance-driven HUBZone Small Business concern based in Clarksburg, WV, near the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division's Headquarters. Founded in 2007, Fusion Technology provides comprehensive IT services and solutions to mission-critical US Government programs and the Intel Community. This position is located in Clarksburg, WV, with onsite work preferred but remote work possible.

Responsibilities

• Apply Pega Business Orchestration and Automation Technology in the ongoing development and operational sustainment of large, complex IT systems.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and PI planning events.
• Perform software engineering functions such as design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs for enhancements and new software-intensive systems.
• Apply appropriate principles, standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle.
• Influence the development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results.
• Recommend and develop new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of functions' strategy and operations.
• Lead and manage the work of other technical staff with significant impact on project results/outputs.
• Resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualization, reasoning, and interpretation.
• Develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices.
• Communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project.
• Serve as a subject matter expert within the technical domain area.
• Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, customers, and engineers to deliver new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following best practices.
• Review code and mentor junior engineers.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for applications.
• Assist with troubleshooting production issues and implement long-term solutions.

Requirements

• Must hold an active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree with 12-15 years of experience or a Master's Degree with 10-13 years of prior experience.
• Expertise in Pega Business Orchestration and Automation Technology.
• Expertise in backend development in one or more programming languages (Java, Spring Boot).
• Experience with automated testing including end-to-end testing, regression testing, and integration testing.
• Experience with Lean-Agile development and Agile IT project management, planning, and metrics review events.
• Experience with Agile project management software such as Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of working with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab.
• Knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and system scalability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue).
• One or more Pega Systems certifications (e.g., Pega Systems Architect, Pega Senior Systems Architect).
• Experience integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) into IT systems for enhanced performance and functionality.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices interfaces.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (Hashicorp Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Elastic Search).
• Automated testing with SmartBear SoapUI and Selenium/Zalenium.
• Working knowledge and experience with SAFe 6, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, SQL Developer, Jira, GitLab, Java, Spring, Maven, NEIM XML, EBTS.

Benefits

• Best-in-class matching 401K program.
• Comprehensive healthcare plan through Cigna.
• Competitive employer contribution to a health savings account.
• Vision and dental plans.
• Life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Personal leave.
• Paid certifications and training.