Technical Architect

Job Summary

Job Description: Senior Pega Architect / Pega Lead System Architect
Role Title: Senior Pega Architect / Pega Lead System Architect
Experience: 10 to 15 years of overall Pega experience
Mandatory Certification: Pega Certified Lead System Architect — CLSA mandatory
Role Summary
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Pega Architect / Pega Lead System Architect who can lead architecture, solution design, technical governance, and delivery of large-scale enterprise Pega applications.
The candidate should have deep hands-on and architectural expertise across Pega case management, enterprise class structure, application design, integrations, BIX, reporting, security, Constellation, GenAI, DevOps, performance tuning, monitoring, scalability, and production-grade solution governance.
The candidate should have performed the role of a System Architect / Lead System Architect for a minimum of 3 years recently, guiding delivery teams, owning end-to-end solution architecture, collaborating with customer architects, and ensuring that Pega solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, performant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities •    Own end-to-end architecture and technical design for enterprise Pega applications. •    Define application architecture, enterprise class structure, case type hierarchy, ruleset strategy, reusable components, integration patterns, security model, and deployment approach. •    Lead solution design for complex business workflows using Pega case management capabilities. •    Guide project teams on Pega best practices, guardrails, design patterns, reusable rule design, performance, scalability, and maintainability. •    Act as the senior technical authority for Pega delivery teams and provide architectural direction across multiple workstreams. •    Collaborate with customer architects, business stakeholders, product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, testers, DevOps teams, security teams, and operations teams. •    Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, technical impact assessments, code reviews, guardrail reviews, and technical debt assessments. •    Drive design decisions around case lifecycle, stages, steps, assignments, SLAs, routing, correspondence, exception handling, background processing, and reporting. •    Architect integrations with external systems using REST, SOAP, MQ, HTTP, file listeners, email listeners, data pages, connectors, services, authentication mechanisms, and enterprise integration standards. •    Design and govern Pega security including access groups, roles, privileges, authentication, authorization, data security, attribute-based access control, auditability, and secure integration patterns. •    Lead modern UI architecture using Pega Constellation, App Studio, personas, portals, views, channels, DX APIs, and reusable UX patterns. •    Provide guidance on migration from legacy UI / Theme Cosmos / traditional section-based UI to Constellation where applicable. •    Architect data extraction and reporting solutions using Pega BIX, Report Definitions, data pages, data model design, and downstream reporting integrations. •    Drive Pega GenAI adoption by identifying suitable use cases for Blueprint, GenAI Coach, Knowledge Buddy, Process AI, GenAI-powered case design, and AI-assisted workflow modernization. •    Provide technical governance for DevOps and release management using Pega Deployment Manager, branch strategy, CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion, and deployment governance. •    Lead performance tuning and troubleshooting using PDC, PAL, Tracer, Clipboard, DB Trace, logs, alerts, and other diagnostic tools. •    Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend optimization options across rules, data model, integrations, UI, database, background processing, and infrastructure. •    Support Pega upgrades, modernization, cloud migration, Constellation adoption, framework implementation, and platform consolidation initiatives. •    Ensure solution alignment with customer enterprise architecture, security standards, coding standards, Pega guardrails, and delivery governance. •    Mentor CSSAs, SSAs, developers, and technical leads; build technical capability within the team. •    Participate in pre-sales, solutioning, estimation, proposal support, technical workshops, customer demos, and architecture presentations where required. •    Contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, best practices, delivery playbooks, technical standards, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. 

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