Pega Systems Architect

About the Role

Our client, a leading Financial Services provider, is seeking a Pega Systems Architect to join their team.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience with Pega Infinity 8.x or greater and supporting frameworks (CPM; Collections)
• Hands-on expertise in AI-powered customer engagement, adaptive decisioning, and predictive analytics
• Pega certified senior system architect (CSSA) or (LSA) strongly preferred
• Pega migration experience preferred
• Experience in DevOps CI/CD pipeline and integration with Pega Deployment Manager
• Very good Cloud experience (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure or PegaCloud)
• Object-oriented programming background (java or .NET)
• Tomcat and IBM WebSphere admin and tuning
• Web Services / WSDL / SOAP / JMS, preferably via Tibco middleware, Rest, and GraphQL
• Database connectivity, preferably exposure to IBM UDB 10.X or greater and PostGreSQL DB experience
• Experience with AWS telephony integration including IVR, Screen-Pop, chat and softphone
• Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, streaming integrations)
• Exposure to working in Agile methodology
• Demonstrated experience in developing and integrating complex software solutions in the financial services industry, credit card and collections system experience a plus
• Experience leading team sizes of three or more engineers

Preferred Skills

• Pegasystem functions BluePrint
• Agentic AI
• Experience defining integration standards, API governance, and reusable service frameworks

Work Environment

• Location: Minneapolis, MN, Denver, CO, or Atlanta, GA preferred
• Hybrid, three days a week onsite

Pay & Benefits

• Pay Range: between $54.00 and $77.24 per hour (final compensation may vary based on factors including background, knowledge, skills, and location; we comply with local wage minimums)
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)
• 401K offered