Senior Pega Software Engineer

*** Must be a certified PEGA Senior Systems Architect***

***We are unable to sponsor for this 6+ month contract role***

Prestigious Enterprise Company is currently seeking a Senior Pega Software Engineer. Candidate will help build highly critical business processes. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering, and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications.

Responsibilities:

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing systems, and operational problems.

• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation, and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence, and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.

• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.

• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health.

• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.

• Tests and ensures the quality of all code that is developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.

• Participates in code reviews and follows industry best practices.

• Maintains knowledge, and ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor or Master in Computer Science and/or equivalent technical education and experience.

• 10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Pega Applications, Healthcare, and/or Customer Service capability experience is a plus.

• Experience with developing and deploying Pega applications on Azure or similar cloud platform

• Must be a certified PEGA Senior Systems Architect.  Lead System Architect is a BIG plus.

• Must be strong in Pega platform Case Management, Data Management & Integration, Decision Management, User Experience, Background Processing, Security & Systems Administration.

• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information to the development of an IT business case.

• Anticipates problems, resistance, or likely objections and takes action to resolve them

• Ability to, guide, train, and mentor associate engineers

• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating a change in such processes.

• Experience integrating legacy systems with the Pega Platform

• Experience with Root Cause Analysis in the Pega ecosystem to quickly address and fix system issues

• Ability to integrate with external systems of record with the Pega Platform

• Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies

• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices

• Life-long learner, process improver

• Skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvement

• Must be strong in Pega platform Case Management, Data Management & Integration, Decision Management, User Experience, Background Processing, Security & Systems Administration.