Senior Pega Engineer/Developer

Description

The Senior Pega Engineer/Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Pega-based applications and solutions. The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software that meets business needs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Pega development, deployment automation, test automation, and general SDLC and DevOps practices.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Design, develop, and test features and functionality for new and existing applications or solutions as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Build and configure applications and business processes using the Pega Platform, ensuring alignment with business requirements and performance standards.
• Communicate effectively with business stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and ensure that development work aligns with business goals.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, QA, DevOps, and operations teams, to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Ensure Pega solutions are configured according to best practices, with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Conduct peer reviews of configurations and contribute to the development of best practices and standards.
• Become a subject matter expert on one or more areas of functionality within the Pega environment, providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
• Stay current with Pega technology updates, industry trends, and best practices, and advocate for their adoption.
• Accurately document configurations, rules, and any changes made within the Pega environment, ensuring that documentation is kept up-to-date and accessible.
• Provide regular development updates and status reports to teams and stakeholders, highlighting risks, issues, and progress.
• Perform unit and integration testing of Pega configurations as part of the SDLC process, ensuring that they meet functional and performance requirements before deployment.
• Collaborate with QA teams to define test strategies, automate testing where possible, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Participate in the deployment of Pega applications to production environments, ensuring that deployments are smooth and without issues.
• Support and maintain Pega applications, applying patches, fixes, and enhancements as required.
• Implement and maintain security best practices within the Pega environment, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Conduct regular security reviews and vulnerability assessments to identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve development processes, tools, and practices within the team.
• Actively participate in retrospectives and other team activities to drive process improvements.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, software engineering, or mathematics.
• 6+ progressive years of experience in building and implementing model-driven, enterprise-level business solutions and applications in Pega
• Must possess a Pega Certified Senior System Administration (CSSA) certification
• Big plus if prior/current .NET development experience
• Experience in automating deployment processes within Pega environments using tools like Jenkins, Pega Deployment Manager, or other CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Pega's DevOps capabilities and best practices, including the use of branch-based development, product rulesets, and automated packaging and deployment.
• Proficiency in creating automated test cases within Pega, using tools like PegaUnit, Selenium, or similar frameworks.
• Ability to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous quality.
• Understanding of DevOps principles, including infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and continuous monitoring.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services as they relate to Pega environments.
• Experience in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks within Pega applications.
• Understanding of proactive monitoring and alerting strategies to ensure high availability and reliability of Pega applications.
• Experience with integrating Pega with external systems using REST, SOAP, JMS, or other integration technologies.
• Familiarity with data transformation and mapping using Pega's integration rules and connectors.
• Knowledge of API management and governance within a Pega environment.
• Experience in version control and branching strategies for managing Pega application changes.