Title: Sr. Pega Systems Architect – EAD or GC or USC ONLY
Interview Process: Phone / Skype
Duration: 6+ Months
Fort Collins, CO
Top Three Skills:
1) 3+ years as an experience senior PEGA SSA
2) CSA or CSSA Crt required
3) Experience in PRPC version 7.1.x
Job Description: We are actively seeking a Pega Senior Systems Architect to join our team and support development efforts for a government client. Position is available in Fort Collins, CO or Reston, VA.
Would you like to be part of a dynamic team of dedicated software professionals? Are you concerned about protecting our Nation’s natural resources? We need people who are committed to action. People who want to apply their education and experience to make sure that all of us enjoy the benefits of productive soil, clean water, clean air, and abundant wildlife that come from a healthy environment.
Natural resource conservation is an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based information to land owners. Join us to build the technology to help people understand, preserve and increase the productivity of our natural resources.
Position Description:
The Pega Senior System Architect will need to have a solid background and experience developing software on the Pega platform. This person will be relied upon as a subject matter expert of the technology, its capabilities and best practices. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
• Operate in an Agile software development environment while satisfying the government’s Waterfall-style project stage gates.
• Interact daily with system and business analysts to clarify requirements.
• Collaborate closely with other highly skilled Pega system architects.
• Be a champion of Pega’s technology and its value to the customer.
• Develop foundational enhancements to existing production Pega applications.
• Design and implement new Pega applications and prototypes.
• Establish standards and best practices for a Pega Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Mentor and support junior-level system architects to cultivate and sustain Pega expertise for the customer and within the company.
• Implement fixes for defects discovered by the quality assurance (QA) testing team.
• Integrate Pega applications with external APIs, web services and legacy data sources.
• Develop complex user interface (UI) elements following modern UI standards and best practices while satisfying 508 compliance.
• Implement flow rules driven by process automation and user intent.
• Design class structures that maximize code reuse and flexibility.
• Estimate implementation level of effort based upon requirements and design.
• Divide large, complex tasks into actionable, iterative subtasks.
• Articulate and manage tasks using software project tracking tools like codeBeamer, JIRA, or Rational Team Concert.
Education and Experience:
• Masters or Bachelor’s degree required – Computer Science degree, Software Engineering, I.T., or similar degree preferred
• At least 6 years’ experience supporting a software/hardware development efforts
• At least 3 years’ specific experience as a Pega SSA.
Required Skills and Competencies:
The successful candidate will have experience in the following:
• Exceptional communication skills in English – both written and oral – and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical IT stakeholders
• Proven experience developing enterprise-class Pega applications.
• Experience in all phases of software development lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Strong Object-Oriented design and implementation skills.
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Experience with design and development of UI’s using JavaScript, HTML and custom CSS Stylesheets.
• Experience in creating SOAP/REST connectors/services.
• Experience in Agile Development Methodology, especially PegaSCRUM.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.
• Strong understanding of relational database design concepts
• Pega CSA certification
• Experience in PRPC version 7.1.x
Desired Skills:
• Pega CSSA certification
• Experience working for a federal government customer
• Experience developing on PegaMobile or the AMP platform
• Experience integrating with GIS maps and features
Navya
703-953-1819
navyar@usmsystems(dot)com
If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id navyar (at) usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-953-1819.