Pega Lead System Architect

Pega Lead System Architect/ Senior System Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Define the end-to-end application architecture following Pega's best practices and guardrails.
• Design and develop responsive user interfaces using the Constellation framework, specifically utilizing Portals, Views, and out-of-the-box (OOTB) DX components.
• Experience in background processing rules like Agents, Listeners, Job Schedulers and Queue Processors
• Define foundational architectural decisions across application layers, rulesets/ruleset versions, reuse patterns, and guardrails that balance enterprise consistency with business unit autonomy.
• Stand up and maintain enterprise "golden paths" including templates, common components, and reusable assets.
• Implement and maintain SSO integrations and enterprise identity alignment.
• Design and implement RBAC standards (roles, access groups, privileges) across personas (developers, architects, tech leads, operations, business stakeholders, auditors).
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines with automated gates for promotion across environments.
• Define versioning/release strategy and enforce repeatable promotion patterns
• Ensure security auditing and platform controls meet enterprise policies.
• Define the platform integration approach and reference architectures for common enterprise integrations including:
• AWS services such as S3, KMS
• Configuring Internal APIs / eventing patterns
• Establish governance mechanisms (design reviews, reuse intake, exceptions process)

Roles & Responsibilities

• Pega platform architecture: application layering, reuse design, ruleset strategy, governance models, and enterprise guardrails.
• Enterprise authentication/authorization: SSO, identity integration, and robust RBAC design for regulated environments.
• Integration architecture: API design patterns, security, resiliency, and integration lifecycle management across enterprise systems.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies.
• DevOps for Pega: pipeline-driven promotions, automated testing strategy
• Lead a team of Pega developers/engineers across the delivery lifecycle: discovery, estimation, design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.
• Partner with product owners to scope and sequence work to deliver outcomes with speed and quality.
• Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture toward standardization, reliability, and automation-first execution.
• Quality/compliance gates, release controls, and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Production readiness: performance/scalability, resiliency patterns, logging/monitoring, operational runbooks, and incident management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead and mentor engineers.

Salary Range- $110,000-$125,000 a year