Senior Subject Matter Expert - PEGA

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Level Software Engineer to design, build, test and maintain scalable software systems. This role will play a part in performing ongoing development and operational sustainment for a large IT system with stringent service level agreements and data management constraints.

Responsibilities

• Apply Pega Business Orchestration and Automation Technology in the on-going development and operational sustainment of large, complex IT systems.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and PI planning events.
• Responsible for performing software engineering functions, including design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs for enhancements and new software-intensive systems.
• Applies appropriate principles, standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the software development life cycle.
• Influences development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results.
• Recommends and develops new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of functions’ strategy and operations.
• Lead and manage the work of other technical staff that has significant impact on project results/outputs.
• Solves highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualization, reasoning and interpretation.
• Develops solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices.
• Communicates with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project.
• 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 application.
• Aid in troubleshooting production issues and implementing long-term solutions.

Requirements

• Typically requires BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience.
• May possess a Doctorate in a technical domain.
• Expertise in Pega Business Orchestration and Automation Technology is required.
• Expertise in backend development in one or more programming languages is required (Java, Spring Boot).
• Automated testing experience in end-to-end testing, regression testing, integration testing, etc.
• Experience in Lean-Agile development, Agile IT project management, planning, metrics review events.
• Experience with Agile project management software such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Knowledge of working with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• 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.
• Must hold active Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Passion for quality control and improving engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ownership mindset and accountability for deliverables.

Skills

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• 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.
• A working knowledge and experience with the following are preferred as they will be used to complete Software Engineering tasks: SAFe 6, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, SQL Developer, Jira, GitLab, Java, Spring, Maven, NEIM XML, EBTS.

Benefits

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.