Pega lead developer

About the role

NTT DATA is currently seeking a Pega Lead System Architect to join our Pega digital practice. Reporting to the solution/delivery leadership, the Pega Lead System Architect will manage the collaboration between business and technical teams throughout customer engagement. The ideal candidate will have experience in Pega Low-Code-Approach using Pega App Studio and Pega DCO, conducting elaboration sessions, and working with project teams to provide expert advice on business requirements and design based on industry knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive the architectural design and integration strategy for a Pega application implementation, in alignment with transformational initiatives.
• Formulate the overall data strategy for the business solution, based on the client’s business needs and enterprise strategy.
• Provide architectural guidance and act as the subject matter expert for integration strategy.
• Drive and instill best practices and concepts as a thought leader for Pega methodology.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies/products/trends related to architectural solutions.
• Ensure alignment of solutions with business and IT goals/objectives.
• Identify and quantify scope and impact of business requirements and changes on systems.
• Communicate solution options to business owners/stakeholders (e.g., architecture reviews).
• Incorporate software and system architecture (e.g., infrastructure, network) into conceptual designs for highly scalable and performing solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards (e.g., solution patterns, application frameworks, technology roadmaps, capital plans).
• Provide strategic thinking, solutions, and roadmaps while driving enterprise recommendations and ensuring adherence to established standards and practices, including the development of standards and practices where they may not yet exist.
• Provide ownership for all requirement and solution definition artifacts throughout the project lifecycle, including TOM and Traceability Matrices.
• Facilitate open communication and fact-based decision making.
• Review the work of others, providing guidance, mentoring, and support to both Development and Business Architect teams.
• Develop innovative approaches to challenging and complex assignments.
• Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them.
• Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems.
• Forecast and plan resource requirements.
• Motivate and lead team members with excellent interpersonal skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience with architecting and developing integration solutions.
• 8+ years’ experience with Pega implementations.
• Pega Lead System Architect (LSA) certification is mandatory.
• Proven communication skills to collaborate with the business to understand/influence business requirements and presentation skills.
• Exposure to product development practices and methodologies.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Ability to successfully run end-to-end delivery of Pega PRPC-based solutions/projects from a technical perspective.
• Excellent skills to identify and drive process optimization and process streamlining for client business processes.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge and experience with Pega PRPC enterprise class structure design and application profiling.
• Strong knowledge of various Pega PRPC concepts and rule types, including Activities, Functions, Data Transforms, Authentication Service, Reporting, Agents, and Ruleset Management.
• Familiarity with the Pega Customer Service framework.
• Experience with multi-language and localization of application interfaces.
• Experience configuring NLP rules.
• Experience working with Knowledge Management.
• Experience with the UI framework and creating skins.
• Expertise in rule management in decision tables, decision trees, etc.
• Experience with DevOps processes and familiarity with Pega Deployment Manager.
• Experience with email listeners and routing email via workbaskets.
• Experience with SSO integration.
• Experience with security privileges and access roles.
• Experience with RDA and RPA Pega solutions.
• Deep knowledge of architectural fundamentals and integration principles.
• Proven project successes and ability to lead a team through the architecting process to delivery.
• Expertise in object-oriented design and implementation.
• Expertise in various integration approaches such as microservices, messaging, queuing, API patterns, etc.
• Strong knowledge across a variety of skills, including but not limited to J2EE, .Net, Oracle, DB2, and MS/SQL.
• Expertise in various software delivery methodologies (Agile/Waterfall).
• Adept at formulating conceptual frameworks and distilling and communicating these ideas elegantly.
• Experience working within a collaborative environment, with matrixed and virtual teams.
• Exposure to Healthcare, Insurance, Airlines, Travel & Hospitality sectors is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Pega Capabilities.
• Knowledge of Pega Express Methodology.
• Knowledge of creating UML diagrams for business process modeling.
• Knowledge of requirement management tools like JIRA and DevOps.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies.
• Knowledge in industries such as Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Utilities.