Pega Technical Architect

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).