Position: Pega Technical Architect
Location: Mississauga, ON (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Total Experience: 10 + years
Job Summary:
Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable enterprise Pega solutions for banking programs, ensuring technical quality, reuse, platform best practices, and alignment across onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own technical architecture and solution design across analysis, implementation, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
- Translate business and functional requirements into secure, scalable, reusable, and supportable Pega solutions.
- Define architecture patterns, application structure, integration approaches, and reusable components for enterprise adoption.
- Drive Pega design and coding best practices through design reviews, code reviews, technical governance, and Guardrail compliance.
- Provide technical directions to developers and collaborate daily with onsite, nearshore, and offshore delivery teams.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and performance considerations and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
- Support troubleshooting, defect resolution, release planning, deployment validation, and post-production stabilization.
- Partner effectively with business architects, product owners, system architects, security teams, and other enterprise stakeholders.
Required Skills:
- Strong architecture and hands-on design expertise across Pega Platform, case management, application layers, data models, security, and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of Pega UI frameworks, including Cosmos and Constellation.
- Knowledge of Pega Customer Service, Smart Dispute, and Smart Investigate frameworks.
- Ability to design reusable enterprise components and establish scalable architecture patterns.
- Strong knowledge of Pega Guardrails, performance, maintainability, coding standards, and design best practices.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery models, with working knowledge of Jira.
- Exposure to Pega BIX, Pega Survey, and Robotic Process Automation is preferred.
- 12+ years of IT experience, including 8-10 years of hands-on Pega PRPC experience across Pega 8.x and Pega Infinity 23.x or above.
- Pega Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) on Pega 8.x or above.
- 8+ years of Banking and Financial Services experience, including at least 3 years in AML/KYC.
Managerial Skills:
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to programmers, IT leadership, and non-IT functional stakeholders.
- Work independently while contributing effectively as a collaborative team member and technical leader.
- Mentor development teams, promote engineering discipline, and drive consistent delivery quality across locations.
Preferred Certification:
- Pega Certified Lead System Architect (PLSA).
- Pega Certified Senior System Architect (PSSA).
