Pega CSSA

Position: Senior Pega CSSA Developer
Location: New Jersey (NJ)
Duration: 6+ months
 

Certification: Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) – Mandatory
Domain: Insurance

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) Developer with 10+ years of IT experience and strong expertise in Pega application development within the insurance domain. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale Pega applications, with a strong understanding of insurance business processes, policy administration, claims management, underwriting, and customer service operations.

The candidate will collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, business analysts, and technical teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that meet business and operational requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with substantial hands-on experience in Pega application development.
• Pega Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA) certification is mandatory.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Pega application design, development, configuration, and implementation.
• Proven experience with Pega case management, workflow automation, decisioning, and business process management.
• Strong knowledge of Pega rules, data pages, data transforms, activities, flows, case types, reports, and user interface configuration.
• Experience integrating Pega applications with enterprise systems using REST APIs, SOAP services, connectors, and other integration mechanisms.
• Insurance domain experience is required, preferably in property and casualty (P&C), life insurance, health insurance, or general insurance.
• Understanding of insurance business processes, including claims management, policy administration, underwriting, renewals, endorsements, and policy servicing.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and enterprise software development lifecycle practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and engage effectively with business and technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Pega Customer Service, Pega Customer Decision Hub, or other relevant Pega applications.
• Experience implementing insurance workflows, rules-based decisioning, and business process automation.
• Familiarity with insurance systems, third-party integrations, document management, and customer relationship management platforms.
• Experience with Pega application upgrades, performance tuning, production support, and cloud-based deployments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Pega deployment tools.
• Experience working on large-scale insurance transformation or modernization initiatives.