Pega Lead Business Architect

Role: Pega Lead Business Architect

Location: Trenton, NJ – Hybrid

Duration: 6 Months w/ extension possibility

Interview: MS-Teams/Webex/Video

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Short Description:

The LBA will lead multiple teams consisting of developers, subject experts and stakeholders to convert the business requirements, process flow, use cases and the supporting integration documents into a fully functional application that meets user needs.

Complete Description:

Must have a PEGA Business Architect certification with a MINIMUM of 3 years POST Certification experience.

Summary:

• Pega Lead Business Architect will act as a liaison between the business users, stakeholders and technologists. This individual will be responsible to work with Lead System Architect and Leadership team jointly charting business and technical strategies.

• This position will have the opportunity to exercise a variety of skill sets while participating in software development and systems integration projects for a wide variety of users and stakeholders.

• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in requirements gathering, tracking, and analysis with an ability to communicate the information to both technical and non-technical professionals.

• The primary function of this position will involve the evaluation of user needs and development and implementation of technological solutions to solve those needs

Experience:

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 9 or more yrs.

• A minimum of 7 years of related business analysis

• A minimum of 7 Use Case Development

• A minimum of 7 Years experience as a PEGA Business Architect with 3 years of current certification.

• Broad experience in an organization that develops and delivers software to customers

• Managing software functional requirements throughout the SDLC

• Participation in an Agile software development environment

• Working with users/stakeholders to understand and capture software solution needs

• Configuration and deployment of software solutions at the enterprise level

• Documentation of requirements, test cases, and training material Role Responsibilities:

• Acts as the liaison between Business and Technology teams and have ability to translate between technical and non-technical team members.

• Works closely with Business Product Owners and Stakeholders, ATCSU and Lead Business Analysts to gather user stories and translate into business requirements.

• A wide degree of creativity and initiative is expected.

• Understands the business vision and translates to Technology impacts/solutions.

• Work with Technology teams to come up with solutions that meet Business needs.

• Proactively identifies and mitigates risk to projects.

• Performs multiple roles as needed during the course of the project.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills.

• Solid experience with business process modeling and change management

• Solid experience with documenting requirements, functional design and leading test execution.

• Partner with internal stakeholders and customers to understand business problems to be solved

• Capture functional software requirements and translate into user stories

• Coordinate with Product Manager and stakeholders to facilitate backlog reviews

• Participate in Agile software development sprints and sprint planning activities

• Lead agile teams and processes as necessary

• Define solution acceptance criteria and assist in software testing

• Publish software release notes and maintain other product documentation

• Develop and maintain solution training material

• Mentor Business Analysts and other Software Development team members

• Integrate best practices into current working procedures

• Lead client workshops around software products and processes

• Participate in and provide support to customer success teams

• Create wireframe designs for functional requirements

• Conduct process and product training as needed

• Other duties as assigned

• IT technical background a plus

• PEGA certified Business Architect 4-year college degree or equivalent technical study

Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience

·       RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 9 or more yrs. – Required 9 Years

·       Experience as a Business Analysis or related area – Required 7 Years

·       Experience in Use Case Development – Required 7 Years

·       Experience as a PEGA Business Architect with 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE POST CERTIFICATION – Required 7 Years

·       Broad experience in an organization that develops and delivers software to customers - Highly desired Years

·       Experience Managing software functional requirements throughout the SDLC – Required 7 Years

·       Agile software development experience – Required 7 Years

·       Documentation of requirements, test cases, and training material, functional design and leading test execution – Required 7 Years

·       Configuration and deployment of software solutions at the enterprise level – Required 7 Years

·       4-year college degree or equivalent technical study – Required 4 Years

·       Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills – Required 4 Years