Pega Lead Systems Architect

Position Overview

Leidos is seeking a Pega Lead Systems Architect to be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA’s Digital Modernization Strategy. The Pega Lead will provide network design and life‑cycle engineering expertise to support the evolution, transformation, and ongoing operations. Duties include updating to new technologies, defining network topology, tuning performance, providing technical support for network problems and issues, and implementing critical system patches and upgrades.

This infrastructure may include on‑premises and off‑premise cloud resources.

• Selected candidate must be willing to work on‑site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

Key required skills:

• Experience with Pega Frameworks like Customer Service, Case Management or Decisioning.
• Strong understanding of Pega Rules Engine, Flows, Activities and Case Lifecycle Management.

• Analyze and translate business information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve complex business objectives.
• Establish and advise on the technical governance related domains and associated processes.
• Drive solid platform health by reviewing and guiding the remediation of configurations and customizations that do not align to Pega leading practices.
• Work with clients and Pega team to establish delivery operating model governance to ensure successful go‑lives, end‑user adoption and ongoing support.
• Architectures developed must prioritize Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance.
• In this role you will be required to work collaboratively with the client to understand the business needs, long‑term vision, and short‑term goals to create a dynamic architecture on which Pega applications and solutions can be developed to meet those needs.
• Guide clients down a prescriptive solution design and manage through the technical implementation decision points.
• Collaborate with the rest of the Pega team (consisting of developers and administrators) to understand the development requirements and challenges and create architectures that address those challenges and enable rapid development.
• Develop architectures that allow for solutions across multiple parts of the Pega platform. In addition, you will determine and implement solutions for new features, capabilities, and tools integrations with Pega to address key system requirements defined by the client.
• Other responsibilities may include:
  • Full stack development or developing automated solutions
  • Dev Ops implementations
  • Integrations and REST API automation
  • Agile development practices (e.g., SAFE, Scrum)
  • Automated testing and deployment using various tools like Deployment Manager
  • Business analysis and design
  • Server/infrastructure administration
• Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, UAT and production deployment.
• Collaborate and team with clients, partners, and Pega team on client sites with a continuous focus on Customer Success.
• Provide support and technical governance focused on one or more projects at a single client.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization and proactively respond to ad‑hoc questions.
• Provide guidance/support to other junior/mid‑level developers.
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position client competitively in the marketplace with best practices.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

• Must be a certified Pega Lead System Architect (LSA).
• BS Degree and 12+ years of experience with Web component development using modern JavaScript, CSS and CSS preprocessors such as SASS and LESS, ES 6+, and Stencil.js. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 7 years' experience in building and implementing model‑driven, enterprise level business solutions and applications.
• Experience implementing Pega Customer Service, Pega Knowledge Buddy and at least one other Pega product or solution.
• Experience briefing peer teams and client executives on Pega capabilities, best practices, and recommendations.
• Must be able…